The days when a high school diploma means you were set up for a comfortable middle class lifestyle ended in about 1950. The days when a college degree means you were set for a comfortable middle class lifestyle ended in about 1975. It gets harder to make it every year but you can stack the deck in your favor by learning these seven life skills.
Your comment about devaluating school diplomas is an important one. I try to keep that in mind as a parent. Without the other skills you write about, school effort is not going to pay back.
The reason schools don't teach life skills is because there's no money in it. They need to teach kids useless stuff like the works of Shakespeare and the isotopes of carbon because they can easily identify who they need to put in special education to get more money. I know how things work. I was one of those kids put in special education because I struggled a little on those subjects. When the school saw my low test scores, they saw dollar signs. At one point, a special education teacher said I don't need it but she was going to tell my parents I needed it because the school would lose money if I was signed out. And I went to an affluent school. And when my parents in fact finally did sign me out, the school couldn't come up with any good reason why I still needed it, and they were very unhappy about the money they were going to be losing.
I might be biased here as a 23-year-old man, but it feels like we have so hard these days to make a decent living compared to generations past. Thoughts?
Two recommendations in regards to using spreadsheets to track your weightlifting workouts and diet: Strong PRO app + Cronometer Gold... Thank me for this later!
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Your comment about devaluating school diplomas is an important one. I try to keep that in mind as a parent. Without the other skills you write about, school effort is not going to pay back.
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The reason schools don't teach life skills is because there's no money in it. They need to teach kids useless stuff like the works of Shakespeare and the isotopes of carbon because they can easily identify who they need to put in special education to get more money. I know how things work. I was one of those kids put in special education because I struggled a little on those subjects. When the school saw my low test scores, they saw dollar signs. At one point, a special education teacher said I don't need it but she was going to tell my parents I needed it because the school would lose money if I was signed out. And I went to an affluent school. And when my parents in fact finally did sign me out, the school couldn't come up with any good reason why I still needed it, and they were very unhappy about the money they were going to be losing.
I might be biased here as a 23-year-old man, but it feels like we have so hard these days to make a decent living compared to generations past. Thoughts?
Two recommendations in regards to using spreadsheets to track your weightlifting workouts and diet: Strong PRO app + Cronometer Gold... Thank me for this later!