ucdavis4PT0gpa
I should Work at Oakley
Skimming back through the thread and it's revival something struck me is different strokes for different folks.
Not everything works well for everyone- if there was some magical one thing or path that produced well balanced, successful, driven etc. individuals we'd all be doing it- there's not. So no matter how each of us got to where we are today, the path we chose worked for us. For some, it was the military; for some it was just working a trade with no "formal" education needed; for some it was entrepreneurship; and for some, it was a college degree or degrees. For me- and perhaps for others here- it was a hybrid a couple of these or perhaps even a few. I stumbled into my profession; as I noted in an earlier post in this thread, I probably would have accomplished just as much in it without my college education but three things are undeniable: having it actually does make me better at my job, it did increase my overall lifetime earning power and it did enrich my life in a multitude of positive ways.
So while the topic of the thread is an interesting one- if for no other reason that given 70% of Americans don't have a college degree so those that answered yes to this question insofar as having graduated would be in the minority- that in and of itself proves the "so many paths to a successful ending point" because a whole lot more than 30% of our population are accomplished in their own right.
Not everything works well for everyone- if there was some magical one thing or path that produced well balanced, successful, driven etc. individuals we'd all be doing it- there's not. So no matter how each of us got to where we are today, the path we chose worked for us. For some, it was the military; for some it was just working a trade with no "formal" education needed; for some it was entrepreneurship; and for some, it was a college degree or degrees. For me- and perhaps for others here- it was a hybrid a couple of these or perhaps even a few. I stumbled into my profession; as I noted in an earlier post in this thread, I probably would have accomplished just as much in it without my college education but three things are undeniable: having it actually does make me better at my job, it did increase my overall lifetime earning power and it did enrich my life in a multitude of positive ways.
So while the topic of the thread is an interesting one- if for no other reason that given 70% of Americans don't have a college degree so those that answered yes to this question insofar as having graduated would be in the minority- that in and of itself proves the "so many paths to a successful ending point" because a whole lot more than 30% of our population are accomplished in their own right.
