For majority of people, they should get college degrees, but much of what they end up doing is "on the job training" which just about anyone off the street could end up learning as well. College shows employers you finished something in your life and if you did it with honors, you worked even harder for it and most likely start for more money. College opens doors that you would not be able to open with a HS diploma. Schools that are beyond college like medicine or law do teach more of what you want to become and prepare you better, but even those, you better work harder than the next person of achieving the most you can or someone else will become that person.
But college is not for everyone and make same or more earnings in many areas of more of a physical job that frankly, most of population don't want to do. Not many want to be up 100 stories and learn to walk steel beams for welding, not many have the "touch" of working cranes without killing workers underneath, plumber, bricklayers, car mechanics, truck drivers, carpenters, electricians, traders, oil rigs are all demanding careers, many are done in inclement weather, and almost all people watch these people do these jobs and wonder how they can stand doing them. Often times long hours, dedication of doing the job perfect, all are at expert levels, cause if they not, someone will take their place. And most of these jobs you can be earning above $70,000-100,000+ in few years.
I always found college to be a joke, many professors burned out teaching same stuff, they didn't have the motivation to do their specialties on the outside, truly lazy way to make money and they going to motivate people? College is very much like trading though, you learn all that you can in four years + and hope you good enough to run with the big dogs. But some of the brightest people on this Earth, I have meet in blue collars jobs, many ran their own businesses, they knew economy, advertising, accounting and the law without going to school and better than most who went to school
Just believe if you apply yourself to the max, you will eventually become who you want to become with or without college. Really, how bad do you want it? Do you want to work long hard hours to become the best or close to it? Same goes with trading, you work very hard to compete against yourself and often you are your own worst enemy. And in trading, it is an Elite profession if you get to the top, how many professions can you earn over a billion dollars a year? Last goal to strive towards, and if don't make it, Enjoy the ride.................................Just wonder if
@Xela will make it before me, she very gifted Professional trader and the forum is lucky to have her post, knowledgeable and trades for a Hedge fund, she is all business and gets down to the point, writes well, she is only one I make sure I read her posts in the morning and only one I follow. So keep it clean, forum loses all the finest traders due to various reasons, but most often attacks by jealous vicious non-humans.
