Jobs Without College Degrees
n our early youth we all His daily tips for playing
take up jobs to earn money. popular tunes ‘on request’
Right. But do all of us amounted to more than what a
enjoy doing whatever we are college degree holder could ever
supposed to do. Remember, that is aspire. And mind you, he loved
a very vital question. Unless you his job as well.
have internal satisfaction in
doing a job, you better quit However, all the above instances
because in the end, nobody is are not provoked against college
happy, neither you who despise education because that kind of
the job nor your employer who education also pays off.
finds a reluctant employee eating Precisely, what I mean to say is
out of his hand, displacing a that college education is for
willing worker. I recall a those who have already made up
seminar addressed by a senior their minds on specialized themes
vice president of an MNC, like nuclear science, space
attended by me where the technology, higher mathematics,
venerable gentleman opened his gas propulsion and so on and so
speech by stating that he started forth. For average individuals,
his carrier as a window cleaner college degrees are not mandatory
and that he loved his job only like the School Leaving
too well. “I used to go out early Certificate.
in the morning”, he added, “and
being a green horn, was much Every day we meet hundreds of
amused at what happened on the people with hundreds of untold
other side of the window”. stories, some credible, some that
sound like fairy tales. Rushing
So was the case of a college drop through the Grand Central
out who minted money by playing sometime ago I came across a
guitar in a roaring night- club. person whose great grandfather
owned one of the busiest railroad reek of sex related abuses”. “But
companies in the United States. then”, I interrupted, “why do you
He died at the age of eighty-nine pursue such ignominy” to which
as a billionaire yet maintaining the poor chap exclaimed that he
the frugal lifestyle that he led was educated to do only that and
as a linesman in another company nothing else.
where he started his carrier. On
being asked casually what he did I am sure by this time you
for a living, the mid-forty appreciate what I am trying to
gentleman responded by saying tell. There are plenty of jobs
that he led an uneventful life by around us – both for the college
being a professor of literature educated as well as for
in a local college. “By the way”, individuals without college
I enquired, “do you enjoy it”. degrees. So select a job that you
“Far from it”, said the like, a job that gives you
absent-minded professor, “the pleasure of performance. If not,
students are un-attentive, the the World Wide Web will find it
campus littered and the hostels for you.
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