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Originally Posted by aberkok
....The author strikes me as someone who has never tried most of these things.
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I thought this as well. Altucher's book from a few years ago
Trade Like Warren Buffett was equally lightweight. A free lance writer looking for a way to sell a story. Especially after I read THIS:
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Originally Posted by Martian
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2) Travel the world. Here’s a basic assignment. Take $10,000 and get yourself to India. Check out a world...
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And just where is the average (or even above average) 19 year old supposed to come up with that $10,000 for his/her "basic assignment?"
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Originally Posted by Plan9
....Now, college itself doesn't mean anything in my profession. The ability to read, write, research and communicate do.
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My work/profession also. But college helped me a lot with those things, especially research and communication.
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Originally Posted by Plan9
The Piece of Paper (TM) is seen as proof of those abilities and puts you in a separate bracket as far as promote-ability....
Avoiding college in the US is like avoiding things that require credit. You can do it but you're putting a tourniquet on your possibilities.
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Originally Posted by Plan9
Also: College in the US is so friggin' easy. I generally feel that college is the modern replacement for high school. College is where you go to learn the things you should have learned in high school but were too busy toking from a bong, hating your parents and being coddled by underpaid daycare providers (teachers) to give a damn. I was one of the typical Old Bastards in Undergrad (TM) a few years ago and this only confirmed my suspicions.
Educational achievement expectations in Amuricah are incredibly low. I think our mediocrity in this area is why we're falling behind other nations.
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Quite true. It's common to find college grads who can't write in complete sentences, are math illiterates, ignorant of the arts, and don't understand basic economics. What did they DO for those four+ years?
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Originally Posted by Plan9
Typical Plan9 commentary:
"Taking a year off to travel the world" is such an asinine and cliche statement made by middle class white people everywhere....
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Well, you can't get much more white and middle class than I am, and I agree 110% with about 90% of what Plan9 says.
Lindy