Is This What I Paid For?!
I’m sitting in my Product Management class. It’s literally 3 weeks away from the last day of class. And the only thing that keeps flashing across my mind is, “Is this what I paid for?!”
Once again, another $700 spent on a class that amounted to absolutely nothing. I’m looking around the room, and I’m sure that most of the class feels the same.
The sad thing about all of this is that most of us have accepted this as the ‘norm’. We pay this crappy tuition only to get crappy classes. It doesn’t seem to differ across majors either. We’re all speculating for 4 years, hoping that this chapter of our lives will amount to something in the end. Hopefully a good job and the American Dream.
I just can’t believe that this is the current state of our educational system. Well, I sorta can. It’s just weird sitting here and witnessing it first hand.
This leaves me to this point:
Betting on academia and college degrees as we look ahead - both as individuals and as a nation - may not prove to be as much of a win.
What IS becoming important is the “chops”. Do you have the chops? Is there something unique, valuable and relevant that you as a person can bring to the table? The people who are winning now are the ones who have something that’s needed… a skill-set, an expertise, passion, ideas, etc.
Having a bunch of college courses under your belt isn’t seeming to amount to much anymore. Not to say that college is a total waste. It does have its positive perks. I’ve decided to place my bet on me and not the degree. Partly, because what they’re teaching us in these classes are far behind what is needed to make it in this fluctuating economy.
Ok, enough of my ranting. lol.
