college education - your take?

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Look, everything you learn on this site is great, but it does not guarantee you will be financially independent for the rest of your life. Even if you are making big bucks this year, things could change next year. Where will you be then?

A college degree does one thing, it opens doors. I know it did for me. I was working for an ISP that sold all their customers to Earthlink and shut the doors. Because I had a degree, I was able to bounce back and continue moving up the corporate ladder. Of all the guys I worked with, only my boss was able to recover like I did. Guess what, he has a degree, the rest do not.

My degree is Management Information Systems. I have a basic Cisco Certification and I do network design for a living. I just updated my resume with a 6 figure salary on Monster and guess what? I'm getting responses from it. Sure, I have the experience now, but that college degree opened the door when I thought I was sunk and I believe it still is opening doors.

Now that I'm making a "living", I want to get to the point where I am working for myself. I've considered going back to school, but this time I would go for an MBA or a Masters in Marketing.

However, I know I can always fall back on that degree....
 


A degree of any type is not just the degree in that chosen field.

It will open doors, because it says two things about you:

1. Not too dumb
2. Finishes big projects (several years)

I studied psychology at a University, but have I ever worked in psychology? hell, no!

People have hired me for knowledge of statistics, programming knowledge and good looks, BUT the degree got me a foot in the door more times than I'd like to admit.

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Whats all this "fallback" bullshit? When you do this shit you just gotta plan on adapting to changes and finding new ways to make a buck.
If you quit your job to work for yourself.. get to the point where you dont have to think about falling back on a job:( and get there FAST!!!
 
I'm pretty close to being there. I just left my job a few months ago.

Don't get me wrong, I hope I never have to use my degree (to get a job) again. But right now it helps me sleep at night knowing that if I ever do need to get a job I can throw together a packed resume.

I just hope I never have to!
 
lerchmo said:
Whats all this "fallback" bullshit? When you do this shit you just gotta plan on adapting to changes and finding new ways to make a buck.
If you quit your job to work for yourself.. get to the point where you dont have to think about falling back on a job:( and get there FAST!!!
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fuck yeahhhh
 
I share a job with a person with a law degree. we do exactly the same work except her reports are 5 times thicker than mine because of her "legal background". I've never had a report knocked back for lack of information. Therefore i get through more work. We are paid exactly the same but she is servicing 30k debt for her degree.

Degrees are good for some things (dont try and be a doctor without one) but for a lot of the jobs around a little bit of street smart and some hard work will get you as far as you want to go without a heap of debt.
 
lerchmo said:
Whats all this "fallback" bullshit? When you do this shit you just gotta plan on adapting to changes and finding new ways to make a buck.
If you quit your job to work for yourself.. get to the point where you dont have to think about falling back on a job:( and get there FAST!!!
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Spoken like a man who wasn't chewed up and spit out during the last .com bust. ;)

In my very last class of college on the very last day of school we gave presentations on where we were going from there. One of the presenters had a quote that I live by now.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

Like Lerch, you can hope for the best, but like the rest of us, you better make sure you are prepared to deal with the worst of the worst should it ever happen.
 
College gives you opportunities to enter a high paying job where some pinhead can't just pull the plug on your income as what happens al ot on the internet. CPA, adsense, ect disable accounts. Google drops your site. You go out of biz. NO one gives a shit and there is no gov. compensation nor legal rights. Atleast in the workforce your get more options. You can't get fired and lose months of pay over 'invalid hours' or get terminated so easily.
 
if you go to college for 9 or 10 years you can make 150k a year if you are a great student and all that.. do aff marketing for 9-10 years and I am sure you can beat that by a large margin.
 
The reason why so many people go to college and enter boring, but stable paying 9-5 jobs because entreprenurialism for the most part doesn't work. It is like communism. Sounds idalistic but fails in practice.
 
Albert said:
College gives you opportunities to enter a high paying job where some pinhead can't just pull the plug on your income as what happens al ot on the internet. CPA, adsense, ect disable accounts. Google drops your site. You go out of biz. NO one gives a shit and there is no gov. compensation nor legal rights. Atleast in the workforce your get more options. You can't get fired and lose months of pay over 'invalid hours' or get terminated so easily.
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I'm pretty sure anyone who has taken the risk to be self-employed doesn't depend on one factor like Google's rankings. That would be dumb. I'm also sure no one who does this full-time is with one cpa company or has one adsense acct.

That's why it is called a risk and why you can make so much more through the net.
 
Albert said:
The reason why so many people go to college and enter boring, but stable paying 9-5 jobs because entreprenurialism for the most part doesn't work. It is like communism. Sounds idalistic but fails in practice.
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Yeah but that's for most people, what happens if your already successful online and aren't putting all your eggs in one basket?
 
The whole eggs in a basket argument sounds good in theory but doesnt really work in practice. For one, smaller businesses in general tend to be dependent on one or two steams of income from a specific niche. A sushi restaurant will go out of business if people in the nearby area decide to stop eating sushi. Chains life office depot have more resilancy.
 
yeah but most people at WF don't consider themselves "small businesses" per say even if you own a bunch of llc's or w/e.

If you do bh, wh, aff. marketing in ppc and other ways, and arbitrage, have an e-commerce site, etc, and dont just have one adsense account and are not in just one or two aff. companies, i highly doubt that makes the"egss in a basket" argument old.
 
Albert said:
The reason why so many people go to college and enter boring, but stable paying 9-5 jobs because entreprenurialism for the most part doesn't work. It is like communism. Sounds idalistic but fails in practice.
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Society was built by entrepreneurs! I see what you are trying to say but you should rephrase your sentence.
 
lerchmo said:
wtf? where does the job come from?
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Albert said:
from having a degree. Having one gives you a higher probability of being employed.
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no, who creates the job? the entrepreneur?

Working for someone else is shit because:
you will only ever be paid enough to keep you from quiting.
you are not free, have to ask for time off, more money ect ect and you have someone telling you what to do with 8 hours of your day
you retire at like 65 which is when I plan on dieing
if you masturbate at a job, people will video tape it and post it on the internet.
if you work for yourself you have free reign on your penis.
when your working for someone else you might be generating 1million dollars in profit per year but you still make 60k.
blah blah blah..
 
It all depends...
is it all about the money? or doing something that you love to do..

I got into AM because I need the money, and hell, I spent plenty of hours online already, I might as well spend them making me money.
I'm going to college because I want to be an Engineer, and open my own design firm someday.. Not for the money, but for the love of the job and to prove that I can. AM isn't my career, it's paying for it though.
 
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