When it come to success in life the education you need has always changed.. Ill make it real easy what Im asking. In this day and age what do you think is most important for higher progress towards your career , higher education(theory's) or Real life (experience)?
Sometimes its hard to do both. Higher education takes a few years of your life. So Im asking which do you value more in your plan for success?
Theory's are good and all to learn but putting these theory's into action is were real life experience shines for me.
Your bigggest evil on the list is time. Even if you dont get an education, and theres no garantee that you will get it if you do pursue it, you can still make money and the short term capital you get(pretty much hand to mouth can be the status quo if you dont excel or force yourself to excel for the rest of your life but this also counts for getting an education.)
Obvious point: 25-26 for higher education but you start with a 6-7k salary which means it will be much be much easier to pay off your loans and onceyou are done with that... its all profit.
19-20 decent education middle ground.
16-18 AN education and prepare to life hand to mouth.
Time is the only thing on this planet that is yours. It is the only thing that you have as currency, no matter how smart, how educated or experienced you are.
Better paid jobs have either higher risk, or higher priority, requiring usually a mix of the following: Field experience and Academic foundation.
But the truth is... You call it success but what you really mean is money.(Or Comfortable living potential)
You have 5 options really:
Dont Conform to the system and be like Kaze(100% chance of success( no goal = success))
Get a decent/good education and hope you get lucky with getting a decent salary job(3-5k a month)(60% chance)
Get AN education and get a blegh salary (2k~)(80% chance)
If you have the perfect idea, the perfect delivery method and the perfect timing: You can be the next facebook or google.(<1%)
If you have Capital and know your way around 1 market/industry type.(In my case Software) Then you can turn that capital into alot more capital. Easy.. Painless. Effortless..( 120% but without capital >0% )