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Originally posted by FastShark85
Weight-lifting does not guarantee strength any more than atrophy guarantees weakness, right?
As to my level of exposure to a "great many people", I've had, and continue to have, plenty.
It's complete nonsense to believe that a person has an equal chance of making a $100K+ salary with or without a college education.
I assist clients in, among other things, buying and selling businesses, both privately- and publicly-owned. In my experience there ARE people who are successful with just a high school diploma. It is also my experience that there are MANY MORE successful people who have post-high school educations.
College, I agree, is not for everyone.
Best of luck.
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I guess it depends on how you define success. I never mentioned anything about the chances of someone making a $100k a year. And given that the vast majority of people do not achieve this level of earning, I would submit that the odds aren't that much different between college grads and non-college grads. I know of many people who have started their own businesses and become very successful without ever graduating from college.
But I digress. As you've taken my original post completely out of context. Read the post I was responding to and you may understand my point a bit better. That post said that anyone that says you NEED college to do well is full of shit. That is an absolutely true statement. Anyone who would like to improve their odds of doing well (as your point seems to be) would do well to educate themselves. Whether that's through a college curriculum or some other method is obviously up to them.
Just as there are vastly different ways of learning, there are vastly different curriculums out there. Certainly someone that goes through a degree factory and never learns anything is probably worse off than someone who starts their own business out of high school and learns what they need to survive.
But that's just me. You seem to see anyone that doesn't go to college as someone that wants to avoid the work involved. Certainly some feel that way. Others recognize that they do not learn well in that environment and choose to avoid it.
To each his/her own.