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Originally Posted by TripleXPrint
most of the time you don't end up doing what you went to school to do.
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That's the bottom line. If anything, a formal education just gives you base line skills--critical reading skills, how to read huge volumes of material quickly, comprehension skills, how to network, how to work within a bureaucracy. You can get these from the school of hard knocks but you have to set your own "syllabus" and might take more discipline since working on your own self-education is less structured. College also put you into the same space as people going through the same psychic/spiritual evolution--finding out who you are, what you want, what things mean, what you want things to mean, does it matter, that kind of thing. Within a structured setting. Again, this can be done outside of the college setting as well--it just needs more initiative on the part of the seeker.
Everything else is on the job training. Given how the economy has morphed in the past few decades, the old idea of going to college just so you can "prepare for a job" needs quite a bit of overhauling. My first job right out of college was light years away from my major (I majored in History). I worked in Insurance claims.
Now I run mainstream site networks and provide outsourced content/seo services.