Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:

There was a study some time ago that showed that during the course of
his/her lifetimes, a college graduate earns an average of a million
dollars more than somebody who skips college.

I've seen studies that show just the opposite, with the cost of many college
degrees not being justified by the potential increase in income. And I've
obtained similar results running the numbers myself.

Is that how you justify your lack of education?

The cost of a college education
is significantly less than a million dollars, so its the best possible
investment one can make.

A million dollars is a $25,000-a-year difference. The real-world difference
is often much smaller than that. And people also forget that years spent in
college are years spent going into debt, rather than earning money, and that
further deepens the hole.

The real-world difference is also often much larger than that. If you had
gone to school you would know what "average" means and that the numbers
include such things as women who stop working after they get their Mrs.

It is 4 years of school for a normal person and 20 to 30 years of full
time work.

Nothing precludes one from working while going to college though it does
reduce the number of hours one can work for about 9 out of 12 months.

There is nothing that requires one to go into debt to go to college.

It's possible to make lots of money as a real-estate agent, and that doesn't
require a college education.

It is probably also possible to make lots of money teaching English if
one is competent.

For the definition of "sour grapes", see "Mxsmanic"; never able to
actually do anything and spends every waking moment attempting to
rationalize his failures.

--
Jim Pennino

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