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[pitdakota]

@Noel7, sorry to hear you were in the hospital and even worse....experienced a complication!  But I am glad they were able to handle the situation and glad you are here posting!!

[Noel7]

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@pitdakota wrote:

@Noel7, sorry to hear you were in the hospital and even worse....experienced a complication!  But I am glad they were able to handle the situation and glad you are here posting!!

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Thank you, @pitdakota

[MEM22]

Sadly nursing is so overcrowded now. New grads have few options. The field has become very glutted. Many larger medical centers now want you to have your MSN or at least be enrolled in a program. Many are becoming NPs and again that job market is overcrowded too.

i have a friend who is a professor. She said even 20 years ago only about 50-60% percent completed college. Now a days a bachelors degree is so common and average 😔.

[hckynut]

After having read many of these posts, including the title, with which I disagree. Why does money seem to be so important to everyone? Sure, money is a necessity, but to me it is and always been, a small part of who I am and if my life was/is a success.

What a person accumulates in $$$ during their lifetime is not my way of judging a person's success. I got tired of listening to so many during my life that "so and so" is a success because of $$$$.

What a person makes in the $ form in only 1 part of the equation, which many choose to overlook. The other part is how those $ are used. Many "successful(?)" have no clue how to plan/budget and/or spend their "success(?)"

Each person can judge their own successes or failures, and if their method of judging it is based on $$$? It, in my opinion, is a very distorted way of judging success and failure. Some can live a happy and satisfied life without their primary priority based on how many $ they make or have made. I know, I am one of them, and my level of "formal educational level" was/is a GED.

Sure it's a different business world now than during my time of employment, but a bunch of college degrees guarantee nothing, when it comes to my view of success. Too many look at college like it is the only path to $$ and success and happiness. If one is looking a $$$? Start looking a "blue collar" trade world. It is generally much more physically hard than a profession that involves primarily the brain working.

Too long already but not even close to how I feel and what I have to say about this $$$$=success thread.

hckynut(john)

[Yardlie]

@SeaMaiden ... I did not come from a wealthy family, but all four of us children worked our way through college ourselves and paid off our loans. Two of us went on to earn Master's degrees, and one earned a Ph.D. Nobody said getting an education was easy, but if you really want to, you can work your way through college.

It is not necessary to attend a big name college. I took my first two years of my B.S. degree at a community college before transferring to a university. To me, it is almost a joke to hear young people who want to attend a big name university during their first two years. They think they will receive a superior education. Not true. The best professors do not want to teach freshmen and sophomores. They push those classes off on the young professors or graduate students. When I transferred to a university my junior year, it was clear that the education I received in the sciences at my community college was far superior to what most of the students received at the university. Classes are smaller at community colleges. Instructors are more accessible. Also, it is far less expensive. However, what you get out of an education depends on what you put into it.

If a student wants to go to college to be a party animal, he is not going to be a great student. Usually, students who have to work their own way through college end up being much more serious students than those who are getting a free ride on Mom and Dad.

[tansy]

There are too many here who think their life experiences in the '60s and '70s hold true today.

[Yardlie]

@hckynut ... ITA with what you said. I taught in a community college for several years. It is not necessary for everyone to earn a four year college degree. There are many great blue collar one and two year programs...and there are other good jobs out there that do not require even that much education. What they do require is a courteous, dependable person who is willing to take responsibility and initiative.

[Yardlie]

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@tansy wrote:

There are too many here who think their life experiences in the '60s and '70s hold true today.

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@tansy ... Not necessarily. I have nieces and nephews who are currently putting themselves through college. They all took their first two years at community colleges and some of them have now transferred to universities. They are serious students, are relying on scholarships, loans, and grants. They are all working 20 hours per week and doing great. One of them said he is on the 5-6 year plan as he is working more hours. Nobody said you have to finish college in 4 years. You just keep plugging away at it until you're done. Also, my sister just finished her Master's while working full time. I just saw some of them when I was in California last week.

[terrier3]

I recently read an interesting story about college students and internships.

In order to get ahead in Washington DC, an internship is considered necessary and has been for years.

It's an expensive town to live and many poor students can't afford taking a semester or two off from school, work for free and have to pay for room and board on top of that.

So students from wealthier homes have a distinct advantage.

I bet breaking into the fashion world is similar...and internship in NYC would be VERY expensive too.

[Mj12]

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@tansy wrote:

There are too many here who think their life experiences in the '60s and '70s hold true today.

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@tansy I agree.  Working life just cannot be the same today as it was waaaaay back in the 50s, 60s & 70s.