Life Experience

It doesn’t matter when in life you become “successful”; you should not rush it one bit. Success in my mind is more about going forward day in day out while maintaining a healthy mindset and some sort of long term aspiration. It’s a personal endeavor of working toward that which means the most to you; not slaving away at a cubicle oriented career. It can be raising a family with hopes that your children are one day better of than you, yet teaching them the lessons they need in order to function highly within society. It can be creating a sustainable future for yourself where you live simply and only take what you need and give whenever you’re able. It can be trying a multitude of separate concentrations, beginning with reading books and finding out what best suits you. From there you find something that really speaks to you and you want to pursue more, so maybe you make some phone calls and express your interest to a hiring manager or similar. Perhaps they have an opening for a lower position, or perhaps the reject you and tell you that you’re clearly not experienced for any position.

Either scenario should motivate you if you actually want to take this path in life. Either you take the opportunity to work your way up, or you go read some more books, or you make another phone call elsewhere. The thing is, no matter what you do, it should be worthwhile to you personally and have meaning to your life and what you wish to accomplish in your days. It won’t be easy, it never will. The point is to accept that you will struggle toward something better in life. Ultimately you will be exactly where you want to be, yet you may not even realize until later on.

This is part of my issue with the college system. Students who have only been living 17 years should be expected to pay 10’s of thousands into a program that’s supposed to determine what career they’ll take on for the rest of their life. Sure this schooling can lead to opportunities that you may not otherwise get, but it can easily do more harm than good. Many students partially complete college, with nothing to show for but thousands of debt, solely for sitting in a several classes in a chair and being handed paperwork that’s meant to test their knowledge on the subject matter.

I think what’s so much more important is trying different things in life; working under an highly experienced crafts-person or business owner. To have a one on one opportunity like this can be so much more valuable to a person, to have a deeply connected relationship with somebody who wants to see you learn their craft, rather than a professor who sees you as just another head in the crowd.

It seems like the “college experience” as we know it might be over, considering students will be hindered from socializing in large groups for fears of increasing the spread. I have no clue what the plan is for school or colleges this coming fall semester, but wouldn’t it make more sense for one-on-one mentor-ship for higher learning,rather than having droves of students risking their health and throwing away thousands that may better applied toward their futures?