I just flipped through about 400 tv commercials this morning and a large number of them were for things like techincal institutions or schools and thing like truck driving school and retraining programs. I got me to thinking that there are a lot of people out there that don't have the skills or education to get themselves out of debt or to get a head in life. At some point if you are always behind because you have a dead end job or you have no where to go in your current company you should seriously think about upgrading your skills. Besides what I mentioned above there are always nigh school courses, online and snail mail courses you can do in your spare time or even seek out apprenticeship opportunities or something of the sort.
Yesterday at a social event I ran into an old friend I hadn't seen in 10 years at least. He was doing small jobs that didn't pay much and could barely afford rent. Now he has a really good government job and is doing well. I asked him what happened to turn things around. He basically said he was tired of being poor so he went back to school to get a good business edcuation and things went from there. Point made, if you are stuck then unstick yourself.
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At the urgings of people like you, I went to school and got myself an education – a tech school degree and then back to school for a BA.
Fat lot of good it did me. Nobody cares that I have a degree. In fact, it’s getting in my way. I don’t have a lot of experience (because I was in school), and even the minimum wage jobs don’t want to hire me because I’m “overqualified”.
It’s not as simple as just “unsticking yourself”.
Nothing is cut and dry in this world. I have a university degree and worked mostly min wage jobs in plants before I could get myself into the office and use those skills to move onto something better.
Nobody cares about a BA because there are 40 billion people with general degrees. You have to specialize in something like tech or computers or go down the teaching route or work towards being a librarian. A BA in history isn’t getting anybody anything.
My post was geared more towards people working at McDonalds or stocking shelves at WalMart. Without some kind of college specialization they will be doing that the rest of the their lives.
You also have to be savy about what tech course you are taking. If there is a building slump the it would not make sense taking course geared towards building. If manufacturing is in trouble why go to school to try to get a job in that field.