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I’ve been posting on the GTRS forum lately. It seems like a lot of people are plugged into the go to school, get into debt, get a job out of school, climb the corporate ladder mentality. This OBVIOUSLY doesn’t work for everyone. People act like the only way to be successful is follow this well trodden path.
What does going to school have to do with managing money? This is like me telling people, If you want to climb mount everest, become a doctor! Why? Are people with degrees smarter with money? Are people who are doctors more physically fit for mountain climbing? The answer to both questions is NO!
Learning how to manage money is an art and a science. It’s not something you can be taught, it’s something that you have to set out to learn with intent and purpose. There are accountants and economists with less knowledge about managing money than many investors out there with only high school diplomas.
Ahhhh ridiculous!
pretty sure the point of getting a degree is a higher salary. Just going out on the limb there.
I didn’t question why people go to school. I questioned the logic behind going to school. If you read the first paragraph of my short post, I point out that I feel going to school with the idea that you will earn a higher salary with a degree is something that a large majority of people do and instead get themselves wrapped up in student debt that takes years to repay. Borrowing in the hopes of earning enough to repay it later is much like the thinking that got us all into this sub-prime mortgage crisis.
I’m not saying people shouldn’t go to school. If education is your passion, than by all means. But if you’re just going and don’t know why or what for, or if you think that a degree will earn you a higher salary… just look at the people who graduated with you. They’re all hoping for the same thing.
Besides a salary is for someone who takes what life gives them. If you want to be a millionaire, you have to go out and get it. Unless you happen to become the CEO of a fortune 500 company…Then I guess Business school really paid off.