jrandtysmom
I'm not cool enough for the Tag Fairy...or maybe I
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2008
Here is one more supporter for College Edumication. I didn't finish college, I was the genius who thought partying and hanging out with boys was a much better route to take. Once my parents found out I wasn't regularly attending my classes - my free ride was over. I didn't have the money myself and then the family came and I didn't have time. Now I wish every day that I had finished because I am as intelligent (if not more - ok ok so back in college I didn't seem to have many brain cells but that was really just poor decisions - I knew better) as the guy running this joint, but because he has a degree he got to move to the top of the class while I just run everything for him -while making much much less than he I might add (and I do all of this and still have my DIS time ). So I tell my kids (even the one who is just starting pre-school) that no matter what they have to take school seriously, finish college and get their degrees. When they ask why, I tell them so that you don't have to work as hard as mommy - you can be at the top of the class watching everyone else work. I am a single parent and I am struggling to put both my kids through private school so that hopefully they will receive a better education and have much better opportunities then I have (and don't make the same dumb choices I did. )
College does matter and anyone who tries to say it doesn't just looks for ways to skate around the system. Any job I've ever REALLY wanted required some type of degree. It's the way our world works. Sure you can do some type of training - but that is still schooling. Either way you look at it, you really can't make a decent living without putting some effort towards education. Thinking you can just get ahead by experience is not true. I've been in the my field for 11 years now and do a great job - but I'd get passed up every time for someone who is out of college with a degree because they have shown that they put the effort forward to get that extra education and I look like I didn't. Do I think it's unfair -sometimes, depending on my mood I do - but I understand the why's and how's and unless I'm able (which at this time I'm not) to go that extra mile and show that I've "bettered" my education - then I can't complain. I just work hard to provide for my boys and hope that the opportunity arises that I can go back to school and continue my education - if for nothing else to set an example for my kids of how they SHOULD do it so that they aren't passed by in the working world.
College does matter and anyone who tries to say it doesn't just looks for ways to skate around the system. Any job I've ever REALLY wanted required some type of degree. It's the way our world works. Sure you can do some type of training - but that is still schooling. Either way you look at it, you really can't make a decent living without putting some effort towards education. Thinking you can just get ahead by experience is not true. I've been in the my field for 11 years now and do a great job - but I'd get passed up every time for someone who is out of college with a degree because they have shown that they put the effort forward to get that extra education and I look like I didn't. Do I think it's unfair -sometimes, depending on my mood I do - but I understand the why's and how's and unless I'm able (which at this time I'm not) to go that extra mile and show that I've "bettered" my education - then I can't complain. I just work hard to provide for my boys and hope that the opportunity arises that I can go back to school and continue my education - if for nothing else to set an example for my kids of how they SHOULD do it so that they aren't passed by in the working world.