{"id":34,"date":"2012-10-15T22:30:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trich.me\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2014-06-18T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T15:59:46","slug":"t-richs-alternate-path-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trich.me\/blog\/t-richs-alternate-path-to-success\/","title":{"rendered":"T.Rich’s Alternate Path to Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

When chilling on my computer during class today, I knew exactly what I wanted to blog about today: About how much I think school is pointless<\/strong>. I\u2019m not talking about the basics of elementary or high school, I\u2019m talking about the higher over-excessive education.<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n

*Disclaimer* I\u2019m mainly talking about school from a business world perspective. This post isn’t for everyone. If you are studying to be a doctor or lawyer or what not, you better know what the crap you are doing before you shove a scapula into my living flesh or protecting me against some serial rapist in court!<\/p>\n

You also should know that I have the opposite brain of Albert Einstein. I think he was blessed with some genius mind cells, yet he was always saying, \u201cI\u2019m really not that smart.\u201d I on the other hand am always lying to myself saying, \u201cI am so super smart\u201d when in reality I am not.<\/p>\n

MY BRAIN has a comparable disease to an eating disorder that girls have. Except my disease is the complete opposite. You know the one where they look in the mirror and see a big fatty but really they are like skeletor? The opposite would be a girl thinking they are so gorgeous that they should be on people magazine\u2019s front cover. Yeah, now imagine that for my brain. I\u2019m like sitting in class and I\u2019m like, \u201cDaaang t-rich, you are so smart. You don\u2019t have to study and read books\u201d. And then I pretend like I\u2019m getting A+\u2019s on everything I do.<\/p>\n

Now to the juicy stuff, WHY I THINK SCHOOL<\/span> COLLEGE IS POINTLESS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can literally learn whatever you want, when you want!<\/p>\n

Schools think for some reason that they are the only ones that have any information in this world. I hate to break it to schools but this isn\u2019t 1979 when the best technology was the Sony Walkman, which was a $200 purchase. Back in 1979, this would be a different blog post. In 1979 I’d say that schools DID have a lot of the information.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t know if you guys have heard of Wikipedia.com, but it is made of the gold at the end of a rainbow. Ask my wife, on a road trip one time I wikipedia-surfed for 6 consecutive hours. Don\u2019t tell my professors but any report I do in school is stolen from there anyway, so why not just learn straight from the source.<\/p>\n

Ask anyone how much he or she actually remember of his or her university studies and see what responses you get. I promise a lot of their answers will be a butt-load of \u201cuhhhh\u201d. There\u2019s a simple reason that a lot of people don\u2019t remember and that\u2019s because they chose subjects that they weren\u2019t passionate about and did not continue studying after they left. They think: \u2018I did what I needed to pass and now I can leave it behind.\u2019 We all just go to school to get a degree.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t need a piece of worthless paper telling me that I\u2019m qualified to do a job. Yet, for some reason, I\u2019m still trying to get that piece of paper.<\/p>\n

On top of it all university admissions have been consistently going up. Upon completing university students are now, on average, about $45,000 in debt. Trust me, I googled it. The post-school portion of students\u2019 lives will begin with a huge financial burden. If you ask me I\u2019d rather have invested that $45,000 into starting a company and maybe of paid Lindsey Lohan to do an awesome celebrity commercial! Ew\u2026joke.<\/p>\n

A degree is also not worth what it once used to be. People all over the business industry without degrees are as successful as those with a degree.<\/p>\n

My mind-blowing list of examples: Bill Gates, Ralph Lauren, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Henry Ford, and a bunch of freaking rich Indians!<\/p>\n

So you\u2019ve studied for 3 years and what have you actually achieved? You sure are not as well off as those homies.<\/p>\n

The truth is that you memorized a lot of information but applying that information was not part of the learning process. The business world is about experience. Everybody wants to hire someone with experience. Everyone wants to hire someone who has done the job before and succeed. For example if you apply for Lady Gaga\u2019s new stylist she\u2019ll say \u201cSo what freaky awful clothes have you dressed someone up in before?\u201d. She wants your answer to be \u201cI dressed Marilyn Manson back in the day\u201d. So unless you have that baller experience Lady Gaga will want nothing to do with you.<\/p>\n

So how do I land the Lady Gaga job and get to the point to where someone wants to hire and work with me? I need experience! We all need to just get out of the building and start making mistakes and gaining experience.<\/p>\n

The world from my point of view is about faking it til you make it. In high school I used to be the BEST faker maker. I mean, I didn\u2019t even think about it. It was just second nature. I\u2019d walk around faking it all the time and making things happen. As my junior year math teacher. She basically told my parents that “t.rich is an idiot, but he will be someone someday”. From the little I\u2019ve seen in the business world, it is the same. We need to sell ourselves. Not in the sleezy way, but the smart man way because sometime in the business world people get that confused (winky face)<\/p>\n

Point of this is just to say that there are many different ways to be successful. Don\u2019t just be another clone and assume that once you have your degree that you’ve made it. I’ve heard too many horror stories.<\/p>\n

Like tupac says \u201cdats just the way it is\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is basically just me ranting. Bad day at school I guess.<\/p>\n

Oh and I really don’t want that Lady Gaga job. Just to clear the air.<\/p>\n

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