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Originally Posted by GTAHVIT
As far as being successful with out a degree goes, let me add one more thought to the mix.
I dropped out of college to join the Navy. My Navy experience got me the job I have now. I finished my degree after I got out of the Navy which has allowed me to get promotions and pay increases I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Next is my MBA which will allow me to make the next big jump.
My parents are business owners both without degrees and have been very successful...
As someone who sees resumes on a weekly basis... I can tell you.... You have to have at least 5 years of relevant work experience if you are are competing against someone with a degree...
Meaning if I need to hire some one with five years of experience as a minimum, and two people apply who have that experience, and one also has a degree, the person without the degree would need 10 total years to compete...
In this economy the Degree is a huge help. FWIW.
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Makes perfect sense. There is a reason a degree can be so damned expensive. Me and Bonnie both have credited education beyond HS but Bonnies is Cosmotology and mine is CDL and 1 yr community college. So basically we are informaly educated and struggled for years until we rolled the dice and got creative in raising the money to buy a business and grow it up. And we had to get lucky and have the perfect scenario present it's self to us. We had to be very fortunate, take risks that could have ruined us, and work VERY hard and long to get where we are. And we still have to work very hard and long to keep it going. I'm ashamed a little to have never gotten my college degree. I had the opportunity and pissed it away. We decided to have a family while we were young so we could still have some 'game' when the kids moved out. It's working out but at the cost of my degree. I will NOT allow my kids to do the same.
This is why I am so bummed that all of the sudden James is having problems.