Comments on: College is over. Time for Plan B? http://7million7years.com/2008/11/18/college-is-over-time-for-plan-b/ How to make 7 million in 7 years ... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jayje http://7million7years.com/2008/11/18/college-is-over-time-for-plan-b/comment-page-1/#comment-16213 Jayje Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:13:45 +0000 http://7million7years.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-16213 If you're an entrepreneur you shouldn't be investing hundreds of thousands of dollars and just about all of your time in a very simple "safety net" that provides little value but a little initial boost to your resume. The truth of college in terms of its actual real-world value is that it is NOT very valuable, and by the time you are in your 30s and 40s people will be focusing on your work experience/ethic and much less on your college background(unless that is what you have focused on much of your life, which will garner you even less respect in the business world). Now, sure, not everyone can skip college and make a successful business. Not everyone can make a successful business no matter what time in their life or what resources you give them. Luckily, not everyone DESIRES to make a business nor does everyone ASPIRE to be an entrepreneur or WANT to skip college. Nor will everyone that does any of the above actually go through with it. For the small percentage of those that are ambitious. confident, and risk-taking enough, it then comes down to sheer intelligence, energy, perseverance, and of course the other oft-cited characteristics of success. College is a very expensive buy-in to a network and a little line on a piece of paper of your resume that acts as a "safety net", something you can fall back on even if you're an abject failure in your working years. But if you're ready for the real world now and don't need the "college experience", as most people think they must have or are completely entitled to, than don't be bent by social pressures: Screw it, just go for it. In the long-run you'll be having more fun and happiness than your colleagues, who spend their life looking back on the glory days of college If you’re an entrepreneur you shouldn’t be investing hundreds of thousands of dollars and just about all of your time in a very simple “safety net” that provides little value but a little initial boost to your resume. The truth of college in terms of its actual real-world value is that it is NOT very valuable, and by the time you are in your 30s and 40s people will be focusing on your work experience/ethic and much less on your college background(unless that is what you have focused on much of your life, which will garner you even less respect in the business world).

Now, sure, not everyone can skip college and make a successful business. Not everyone can make a successful business no matter what time in their life or what resources you give them. Luckily, not everyone DESIRES to make a business nor does everyone ASPIRE to be an entrepreneur or WANT to skip college. Nor will everyone that does any of the above actually go through with it. For the small percentage of those that are ambitious. confident, and risk-taking enough, it then comes down to sheer intelligence, energy, perseverance, and of course the other oft-cited characteristics of success.

College is a very expensive buy-in to a network and a little line on a piece of paper of your resume that acts as a “safety net”, something you can fall back on even if you’re an abject failure in your working years. But if you’re ready for the real world now and don’t need the “college experience”, as most people think they must have or are completely entitled to, than don’t be bent by social pressures: Screw it, just go for it. In the long-run you’ll be having more fun and happiness than your colleagues, who spend their life looking back on the glory days of college

]]> By: Josh http://7million7years.com/2008/11/18/college-is-over-time-for-plan-b/comment-page-1/#comment-2013 Josh Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:09:48 +0000 http://7million7years.wordpress.com/?p=557#comment-2013 I guess you can't put a price on a secure safety net like a college education. It probably all but guarantees you a good enough job to keep you above the poverty line, allowing for extra money to invest and build wealth with. I guess you can’t put a price on a secure safety net like a college education.
It probably all but guarantees you a good enough job to keep you above the poverty line, allowing for extra money to invest and build wealth with.

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