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Education.
What the hell did I learn in school? I spent years there going and having lessons in geography, history, science and french. All I now do with that information is answer a few questions on eggheads when they come up about Long Shore Drift or the Magna Carta.
What I really should have been learning all those years was how to write my CV, find the cheapest electricity prices, fill out my tax return form and start my own business.
Do well in your GCSE’s, do well in your A levels, get a degree. How the hell does this really help you? You come out of university during the ‘credit crunch’ and there’s 3million unemployed people all after the same jobs as you. Except they’ve been doing it for ten years, have the experience and are proven great employees. Suddenly your wank Duke of Edinborough award (which I don’t have), your volunteer work (which I never did) and you’re hobbies of playing 5 a side and ‘reading’ seem like shit compared to ten years of actually doing whatever the fuck you were being taught to do in school/college/university for nearly 20years.
But then I get lucky! I get a job! I start on 18grand a year and that gives me enough to move into a rented apartment but I still struggle to pay my bills. I meet a girl. We marry. We both struggle to pay our bills. I work hard. I now earn 30grand and so does my wife! Great! Now I get a 200grand mortgage and buy a house. I still struggle to pay my bills. I get another promotion. I have a kid. I still struggle to pay my bills. My kids leave home. I finally buy the porche. I still struggle to pay the bills. But hey, I just payed off my mortgage so I retire. I own my own home. I stuggle to pay the bills with my pension. I die. I leave the house to my kids.
Sounds shit doesn’t it. I will probably always work for someone else. I think the key is to be the guy at the top. The guy who everyone is working for. I just need to figure out how to do that.
Good luck.
