SootAndGrime said:
A college education is often required to do great things. A high school diploma strictly limits you to working at retail stores, convenience stores, gas stations, car washes, and generally jobs where your name is on your shirt. A job where your name is on your desk, or on your building for that matter, requires a thorough education. Usually a masters or professional degree from a name-brand university.
Very successful people without college degrees are extremely exceptional cases.
Off-topic, but if you work on Wall-Street, you'd better make heaps upon heaps of money in order to pay for the ridiculous cost of "new york living".
A tiny one-bedroom studio apartment in NY can cost as much as a pricey mortgage. And the closer your residence is to Manhattan, the higher the rent/mortgage.
Apartments on Manhattan island can cost millions.
Personally, I would much rather NOT live in New York, even if I was offered one of those extremely high-paying jobs on Wall-Street.
Education is not a guarantee for success. People that strive to do something and eventually achieve it, are going to get that success regardless of whether they had a high school education or a PhD.
Think about all the people who had little education and started a business that ended up becoming a successful franchise based chain of businesses.
The formal university education system deals with a small number of professions.
A great chef is someone that probably hasn't got a Harvard MBA, but they probably work their *** off and are absolutely pedantic perfectionists that make some of the best food you will ever eat.
Think about all the creative disciplines out there. Granted, a lot of actors, musicians, and so on can (and sometimes do) go to a university to study in a related field, but building up a portfolio is an ongoing thing, and this is something is more or less up to the individual. The individual is responsible for their performance standard, and in my opinion, someone with the drive in an area like music will probably have made it with a decent standard tutor and their own drive without needing to go to more formal education.
I really think you need to meet a few more people out in the world. There are plenty of people who are very financially acceptable that do really crappy jobs because everyone else doesn't want to do them because they are crappy and less "prestigious". You might even be surprised to know that a lot of these people in crappy jobs are also smart in their own way (maybe not academically, but perhaps socially, or street smart).
You should also start to think about what success really means to you. I think this is really important, because if you think success means a combination of social status, financial status, and where you got your degree, you will probably burn out and go into some kind of really bad depression or similar diagnosis with similar symptoms.
If you want to succeed in anything, you need to work hard, have a positive attitude, and treat everyone with respect. If you maintain the mentality that your staff with names on your shirts are somewhat "lesser" than yourself, you will find out the hard way what that will do to you.
You might get away with it at some institutions for a short time, but I guarantee it will come back to haunt you and you will get no respect from anyone.
