Topic: Build yourself - page 2. (Read 218 times)

It is traditional thinking to still depend on how life used to be after school, you get a job and work yourself to retirement, things have changed now, and while the importance of education cannot be undermined the importance of learning a skill cannot be overstated. If getting an office job is still your target, you may miss it because the reality of things is that there are no enough office jobs to go round.

While you seek to get skilled, please ensure that the skill is relevant to this age and the future and high paying enough to economically cater for needs.

Life is for survival of the fittest, it throws you chalenges ,you have to build yourself to accept all challenges and do better,even if everything seems good to you and life treats you well ,build yourself to do more and sustain the energy

I have a few friends, who all went to universities and so did I. None of us does anything even remotely related to our studies and we all finished different studies ranging from economics, through law, and ending with robotics. Two guys who studied literature are now working in IT, the robotics guy is selling clothes, law guy is in administration and guy who studied IT ended up running an online store with mobile phones. Based on my experience, a degree doesn't say anything about you and is in no way a guarantee of anything like a job, money, success... You could skip it, but it has a purpose in some cases. It shows that you're willing to learn, that you are able to do research on your own and it teaches you to pick the important parts and manage time. This is probably the most useful thing that the university taught me. That said, I won't ever know if I wouldn't be able to get these skills elsewhere, like by learning a trade and running my own business.

The evolution of technology has made education a ever evolving field. Each year we see more and more newer and sophisticated technology are hitting market and we have to become ever learners to be able to cope with them.
Today even the most basic jobs need us to use gadgets, workers need to work on realtime data and manage sophisticated systems remotely. No skill can be considered as a life long skill anymore and we need to upgrade ourselves as fast as the operating systems of our phones

although college can be career defining. many people go to college just because its the thing to do, even before deciding on a career path.

ask any college kid about what they want to 'major-in' most have no idea in the first year of college.
half the courses college kids take in the first year are not specialist, they are just random courses for extra credit.
much like seeing many female college students being obligated/coerced to add in a STEM class into their schedule's purely to make the college look good by having high female attendance of STEM courses, even if its not going to be their speciality.

gone are the days where industry would actually train the young and actually educate them in a career, now its simply fill a college kids day with impractical stuff, but just enough stuff to make a 3 month, night school specialist course feel worthy of the price tag of 2 years of full day college fee.

there are many many specialist roles. where it does not require 4 years of training at 10 hours a day.(apart from probably brain surgery), where by kids can actually learn how to become a mechanic in a few months if the course is designed right to teach them the good stuff they need to know up front.

colleges need to pull out the crap from their semesters, you know the compulsory STEM classes like biology, where by the student is trying to specialise in electronic/mechanical based stuff. and instead actually teach them stuff that can get them specialist in a role.

take someone else i know. they want to be an architect. so they planned on architecture, art, physics and geography. thinking the physics and geography would teach them about how the ground affects building foundations and vice versa. but instead their first semester was biology, second semester was chemistry and third was physics. and none of the sciences helped towards how to construct a building or what building materials, weights or compositions would aid that. and the geography was not about the ground/water info that is key to know when planning a construction site. it was about different states and the other useless stuff about maps and crap

this is being said because having a college qualification is felt as meaningless now. its not a sign of speciality or knowledge anymore.
i know people with degree's that specialise in nothing. and so their 3-4 years of college has become a waste of time for them

so as the title of topic says. try to build yourself. learn what you can in just the area's you want a career in. learn more then the basics. actually apply yourself and organise yourself.
do not pretend others can build you for you. because 30+ other students in the same class are learning the same thing and doing the same thing if just following the lesson plans. meaning only a 3% or less chance of getting a job if all 30+ students are trying to apply for the same career. the other students are your competition. so beat them.. so know more about a subject then they do

In my country at least, it's because the nature of university education has changed over the last 25 years or so.

Previously, university was all about learning. Only a small percentage of people went to university, everyone had their courses paid for by the government, and students with a low or even median family income received additional government funding through a cost of living grant. The result: a small number of university graduates, highly skilled and ready to pick up jobs that demanded their skills.

But then it became about money. University entrance was vastly increased, a large proportion (~50%) of young people started going to university, government funding was removed entirely, and students became saddled with debt. Average student debt in my country is now £45k (~US$56k). University education became a lot more transactional, people were effectively paying for a degree. A lot of less academic and sometimes quite absurd courses sprang up to cater for the rising demand (e.g. surf science, floral design, puppetry). The result: a large number of university graduates, mostly saddled with vast debts, and relatively few highly skilled.



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 Gone are those days where the moment you leave school as a graduate, you can be gainfully employed in a reputable company or establishment. Now, you discover that even a graduate of our present generation can not be differentiated from a young school leaver in terms of the kind of menial labor they settle for.
 Why is this so? Most individuals believe that life is all about getting into the four walls of a university and getting a degree. I support schooling, don't get me wrong, but then, it is also very important to arm yourself with a skill or two or more of possible.
 The society we find ourselves now, there are still youths who are depending on the government for employment, ( this is one of the duties of a government), but then, if you are armed with these skills you may necessarily not need to be tagged "dependent". But with the skills you've been able to build yourself with, you become an employer of labor.
 Skills make you independent. A very necessary tool for survival if you ask me.