Every school course we’ve ever attended, any volunteer work we might have done or active club membership we might have held throughout our lives has transferable skills. By the time we enter in adulthood, we have hundreds of skills. The qualities that make for success run the gambit across the fields of occupations. Sell your capacity for ideas, creativity and imagination. The things we learn from doing things we enjoy as well as things we don’t like, teach us lessons and skills for success in living and working. Every job demands the same skills and character traits, whether gravedigger or doctor, engineer or teacher, auto mechanic or accountant and so on. Every job demands that we get something done, whether self-employed or other-employed. We must be organized, detail-oriented, and reliable, adhere to safety, take criticism, and deal with difficult people, conflict and pressure. Success means selling your ideas, capacity for creativity and imagination and skillfully riding the rough surf on the job.
Nothing Teaches Like Life Experience!
Stay in school.
It’s not entirely related, but Squashed made me think of this when he said:
This isn’t simply a matter of parents thinking this is an inappropriate use of school resources or a waste of time. This is parents who think that having Obama say something to their children about staying in school and being the best they can be is so harmful that it would be better to skip school entirely.
School is pretty important. You hear a lot about how a college graduate earns X dollars more in their life than a high school graduate. This is similarly preachy. The more school you get, the less likely you’ll be unemployed. The high school dropout line is always above the other lines. Perhaps even more important is that right now the spread between the unemployment rates for high school dropouts and college grads (violet line) is at an all time (well, the data only goes back to 1992) high.
You’ll note that they don’t have anything on there about grad school. Hmmm….
(source: BLS)
UPDATE: I didn’t intentionally try to offend. I wrote BS. It should be Bachelor’s degree. Oops.
“ Half of college graduates under age 25 are in jobs that do not require college degrees, the highest portion in at least 18 years, Mr. Sum said.
The NY Times reporting that teenage unemployment has hit 25%, the highest level ever recorded.
There’s a vicious perversity in our colleges becoming more vocationally-oriented while guaranteeing less and less when it comes to gainful employment afterward. What’s the point of all that college debt if you hold little hope of paying it off?
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