Well, I would say that it would be unrealistic to expect to be able to pull off being rich without a degree, because even with a degree becoming a billionaire is obviously something that happens to a small minority of people.
However, with the right plan, the right opportunity, and a bit of networking, you can make a decent living without a degree. If anything, a degree is just part of that same overall plan to make a living, it's stacking the deck in your favor just a bit more.
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True that. I just want to say these businessman (one of them I had the unfortunate relationship with due to his "real" wife being my mom's older sister) worked their way from the bottom to the top with little or no business contacts after the end of the Second Pacific War.
That's what my dad wants me to do. Gain business contacts and work experience while I'm in Asia, but I feel that I want to finish the mistake that I made in Canada so that I can close that chapter in my life. Not to leave it hanging without the possibility of not finishing it at all.
I just don't have the knack of running a business since I will admit that I'm bad with numbers for the most part, but I'm getting a feeling that I can't say no and just move back for half a year overseas to finish up whatever in the community college and use that to help me move back to uni and get that "degree" aside from the one in community college.
edited 29th Aug '13 7:32:19 AM by Ominae
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"
Currently, my situation is that I've studied a community college degree under "General Studies" in Vancouver, Canada after moving there from the Philippines due to some bad times. Now I've studied Political Science 'cause I like the subject and it interests me a lot. Thing is I f-cked up pretty badly in the last year of my stay in university, due to the need of taking up a quantitative course, which requires some math in my degree. Naturally, the course I took (with some advice from family that it could be "easy") ended up making things worse since I have a warning from the administration that my GPA wasn't doing so well and I had to go back to CC to make up for the GPA needed so that I can go back and finish so that my GPA can be pulled up in order to graduate. It didn't help that I have a huge hate for advanced math stuff.
Fast forward to today. My father is very sure that I don't go back and start working as soon as I can. My mom agrees with him and they tell me stories of businessmen (at least from the Asian perspective since I studied in the Philippines for the first 13+ years of my life there) who didn't finish college/didn't bother to do college for economic/personal reasons and yet, they're millionaires in the region.
I don't know. Honestly, I was told before in my younger years that having a university-based degree can help get a job. But I know that it's not the case anymore since you need to know people with related work experience. I'm utterly depressed that I can't finish up the degree that I have a passion for and I don't know if I can complete it in the near future since both of them don't mind me pursuing it at a later time after I have worked for a certain time.
I'm so confused by this. But really, I'm at a loss. As of now, I have not asked the college/university I was previously in before if I can pursue distance education in order to get the degree since I'm living in the Philippines and I'm not in Canada for the said reason. Truth be told, I probably will have to be in Canada so that I can avail of it and ask the relevant department for this.
edited 29th Aug '13 5:34:07 AM by Ominae
"Exit muna si Polgas. Ang kailangan dito ay si Dobermaxx!"