Remember the scarecrow and the Wizard of Oz?
Not knocking a higher education, but in this day and age, it's a money-making business like any other IMO, and that by and large is the point of it.
Tom C.
From: Keith Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Interesting reading Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:05:04 -0700
I have a daughter who got a degree in fine arts from UCLA.
Over the next several years, it too looked like such a waste, as she flitted from job to job...
In time she got a job as a travel agent for a major company, and she was a good one, still... the only benefits were her "familiarization" trips. Travel for free. Uh huh.
Today she's a licensed Real Estate Appraiser, with a good business backlog, and "on the side," so to speak, she's grabbed a construction contractor for a business partner, and they have formed a corporation that buys pre-maufactured houses (iin pieces) and installs them on lots they've purchased, up around Clear Lake, CA, USA (north of San Francisco.)
A lucrative business indeed!
However, the first 3 years they were hovering on the edge of bankruptcy. And...no fine arts involved, I'll tell you!
Like, whoever uses what they went to college for?
Just an aside... <g>
keith whaley
William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "CRB" Subject: Interesting reading
... in a current eBay ad:
"When I was a photo student I used an MX and look where it got me.
My daughter just graduated with a bachlors in science/art and works at Starbucks!"
What I find amazing is that all these well educated multi degree'd people end up working minumum wage jobs when if they had chosen more wisely they could be making $25.00/hr. or more working in a trade, with less stress.
I have several co-workers in my store with 2 and 3 degrees, they can't get work in "their field", but I had to wait almost 6 weeks to pay a plumber $45.00 an hour to run my sewer connections.
William Robb
