Graduation

Last Wednesday was my university graduation. I put on a robe and hat and received my $50,000 piece of paper. There were speeches from the figureheads at the university encouraging us to pursue our dreams and to stand out from the crowd... Kind of ironic that as I looked around the auditorium I saw a ton of depressed faces because they all realized the same thing. We graduated, but now what? The dream jobs with the huge salaries that we were made to believe existed really did not. All of these people will fight each other for a job and enter the rat race in hopes of just making enough money to pay their bills at the end of the month. Some were talking about returning to school to donate more money to this broken system only to end up in the same situation... More letters behind their name but still making ends meet. Wake up.

School is not the answer in 2010. We are in an age where if you don't work for yourself you are simply a slave to a business owner who is realizing his dream of financial freedom. We don't need more employees, we need people to separate themselves from the 97% and create businesses that will contribute to society.

School does not teach you how to become financially free, this type of education can only be achieved by learning from someone who has done it before. Start your own businesses, make mistakes and learn hard lessons.

I love it when people tell me that they are going to school for business because they want to own their own business some day. How are you going to learn business from a textbook and a professor who is not a business but simply an employee.

Too many people are brainwashed by the old mentality of go to school get a job and save your money in mutual funds. what a joke...