Students should think carefully about their choice of major if they want a good return on investment for their college degree. In their reading, For Some, College May Not be a Smart Investment, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill maintains that, “According to Census’s calculations, the lifetime earnings of an education or arts major working the service sector are actually lower than the average lifetime earnings of a high school graduate," (p. 5, 2013). Basically, Owen and Sawhill are claiming that a person with an arts major is making, on average, less than a person with only a high school graduate degree. People need to be careful about what they are reading on the internet and how often they read on the internet. In his writing Is Google
In the article written by Carl McCoy he talks about how it’s unwise to do the thing that we love most. He talks about how finding the job that you love may not be the best thing for you. McCoy acknowledges that you may have a lower paying job and love what you do but he also admits he attempted to be a starving artist for awhile. He points out that there is nothing special about do the thing that you love.
An author once said” Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your
While Leonhardt wrote mainly about financial worth of going to college, Matthews wrote about certain students’ mindset after high school and why going to college in this century is not as important. Although Matthews does understand the importance of a degree and how it pays off, he states that “many more workers today would have been better off not going to college at all.” Matthews states this due to the Annual Wage by Education chart that demonstrates the amount of money the 25th percentile of degree holders make compared to non-degree holders. Students don’t know their abilities and drop out of college because “the problem is the fact that students usually don’t have a great idea of how they are going to fare in college, or what sort of degree or career they will pursue.” Setting goals, and knowing the life that one wants to live will limit the college drop-out rate and increase the quantity of graduate students.
“For The Benefit of Others” “A Life Beyond, ‘Do What You Love’” written by Gordon Marino he speaks about how although a person should always love their work, most people do not get that luxury. He gives his audience anecdotes about people he counsels, his own father and of people he has heard stories about. Marino is an ethics counselor at St. Olaf College, a community volunteer, and an occupational counselor. Marino argues that a person should do what is best for society, or their families over what that person loves. He argues his point using anecdotes to appeal to the audiences’ emotions, he appeals to credibility with references from Dr. King, Miya Tokumitsu and Kant.
Scott Dinsmore first shared that the worst career advice he received from a friend was to not worry about how he likes the work he’s doing right now, and use that time to build his resume. Dinsmore describe his framework of success as a compass that must possess unique strengths, values, and experiences. Individuals first must become self-expert and know themselves and what they really want. This will lead to their discovery of unique strengths. Individuals then need to find their values, whether it may be family values or health values.
In his Essay “Are too many people going to college,” first published in a 2008 issue of AEI, Charles Murray explores many insights onto the topic of furthering education as well as exploring various other options to pursue after high school. Who exactly would think that too many people are going to college? Well with more and more students flooding campuses at the end of every school year and less and less going into trade schools, a shift in the job market is just beginning to be seen on the horizon. Charles Murray’s essay “Are too many people going to college” shows that not only are there other avenues to pursue a potential life long career, but that much of the time pursuing these avenues may offer better results for some wanting to go to college.
From reading this letter, I thought that what Hunter S. Thompson wrote was true. For one, by saying that we don’t desire to be in a certain career, we just choose that career because it’s best suited for us and we’re able to be ourselves. When Thompson said that, “we must make the goal conform to the individual, rather than make the individual conform to the goal,” this meaning whatever goal we have, it should accommodate our lives rather than feeling as if it’s a burden to accomplish the goal. In order to achieve a goal we have to want to go through all the steps it takes to reach it because as Thompson said, “ As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes,” so we have to chose a goal
Ana Lucia Urizar, author of the article titled We’re Being Punished by Crippling Student Debt presents the argument of Student debt and the importance of remedying this topic otherwise face future detrimental effects. Urizar provided statistics suck as the average amount of loans in dollars the class of 2015 had taken out. Ultimately, Urizar’s main argument is that something needs to be done about the exorbitant cost of attending college because it is impeding graduates’ careers, standard of living and ability to fully engage the economy. This argument does well providing strong statistics found through credible sources such as The Wall Street Journal, however, the article failed to provide a counter-argument or different viewpoint regarding
Finding one passion could be tricky. Sometimes we confuse passion with skills, passion is something that you do and enjoy no matter how tired or even if it doesn’t make you a millionaire. Skills are something that you are good at but you don’t enjoy, one will continue on this path because we need to pay our bills. This doesn’t make it right or wrong but we should be happy with ourselves doing what we enjoy.
In 1976 Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College. By 1981 at age 21 Steve Jobs had publicized the apple computer, and by age 23 he was a millionaire. In 1983, Jobs employed the new chief executive, John Sculley, the head of Pepsi Cola with the legendary words "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?” Jobs had created his own division within his establishment to create his own product, the Macintosh, which created conflict between him and the divisions that actually made a profit. This put a strain on the relationship between Jobs and Sculley, as well as the numerous complaints Sculley received from his division of their stressful and merciless boss.
To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still-- that’s how you build a future”(Miller,10).
Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech Analysis One of the greatest stories about hard work and success came from the genius mind of a college dropout. Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” in 2011 at Stanford University.
A Critique of “Do What You Love? #@&** That!” In the essay “Do What You Love? #@&** That!” Jeff Haden(2012) Expresses his opinion on passion and how it should affect your choice in starting a business.
To be honest, most of the time in my life I felt so lost since I had no idea what my dream would be, who would I become in the future. But there is one thing that I am sure of, that my determine and inquisitive mind would help me find out my passion and pursue it with my best. My life changed through two big periods of time, which were my years in high school, when I found my life’s goal, and when I acknowledge exactly what I should be during my time in National Economics University. The time at high school was a one of my most crucial life milestones.
