| Do you need education to have a successful job, | | | | out that they're not making the money they used to. |
| career, or life? Many of you have asked yourself that | | | | There's always more you can learn, and new topics |
| question. The traditional way of thinking is that | | | | to discover. Even if you didn't go to college it doesn't |
| without a college education you will never amount to | | | | mean you can not self-educate. Many companies for |
| anything or ever get paid a decent wage. | | | | years have complained that the traditional educational |
| I agree that you need an education, but I do not | | | | institutions do not really prepare people correctly for |
| necessarily subscribe to the traditional way of thinking | | | | the work force. |
| that it must be a college type education. Don't get | | | | If you don't have that bullet of education to put on |
| me wrong there is a lot to be said for this education. | | | | your resume you can always counter it with proof of |
| More importantly, however, I believe in | | | | your knowledge through accomplished projects. I'm |
| self-education, or the school of Hard Knocks if you | | | | sure more companies would rather see a bullet of |
| will. | | | | how you can affect their bottom line than whether |
| Just because you are no longer in school it does not | | | | or not you attended class. |
| mean that your education is finished. Everything is | | | | Now I'm sure you see how this brings in mentions of |
| changing daily. What worked yesterday does not | | | | a job and career, but how does it relate to a better |
| mean it will work tomorrow. | | | | life? |
| Look how technology has changed in the last 20 | | | | The more you educate yourself and train your brain |
| years. There are very few industries I can think of | | | | to utilize and think about what it's acquired in |
| today that are doing things with the same equipment | | | | knowledge, the more opportunity you will begin to |
| or process that they were 20 years ago. If you're | | | | see in life in the avenues of better work, better |
| not constantly learning to keep up you're going to | | | | jobs, better careers, but it can also if you desire spill |
| get left behind. | | | | over into better life decisions, better investments and |
| Technology isn't the only thing that is changing. | | | | sounder and quicker recoveries from failure. |
| People are changing, the way they view things, the | | | | The more you know the more you understand the |
| way they think, the way they are persuaded has | | | | more you can shield and adapt to the changing world |
| changed. Have you noticed how you pay less | | | | around you. By learning a keystroke short cut you |
| attention to commercials on television? It's because | | | | can exponentially save time at work, by learning the |
| you've learned to block it out and ignore it. Now if | | | | changes in the tax code you can learn to keep more |
| you're going to buy a product what convinces you? | | | | of your money to spend how you see fit. There are |
| Marketing is changing to compensate. Yes many are | | | | a myriad of ways to apply newly learned knowledge |
| trying to do things the old ways, but they're finding | | | | and how it can affect you and what you do. |