Music business?

domrom1
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:48:42 +0000

^^ Sorry, i must have portrayed that wrong. I completely agree with you that after earning a college degree you are more educated overall as a person, which in turn makes you a more intelligent, critically thinking, and therefore, “better citizen.” And the small business owner was a bad example on my part, because being the son and grandson of life long small business owners, i can confidently say that location you can get based off many factors (family, how much $ you have to pay a higher rent, etc), timing, and other strange factors weigh heavily into the success of a small business just as much the owners “business sense.”… but i digress.

The point im making is, yes college makes you a more intelligent, more well-rounded person and therefore a better citizen, but that doesnt mean that should be your goal in attending college. your goal should be to find some sort of field to specialize in that you feel your good at, can succeed at as a long term career, and that can offer you a way to support yourself, and a family if you choose to have one, to a level of your liking (be that $40,000 a year or $150,000 a year). if you get lucky, youll love your career, and then youre really set for life. but i have to say thats my main focus in going to college, not becoming a better me or whatever. that will happen on its own along the way, and can also happen being a hard-working car mechanic with no education. Dont just think of the life-long micky d’s cook, there are hard working people with decent jobs that didnt get a degree. The intangible benefits of college (learning the value of hard work, life experience, dealing with others, etc) i believe can mostly be obtained without going to college. You would lose out on some benefits like critically thinking skills and writing ability, but i dont think many go to college with the goal of learning to write better (except journalism majors obviously!). Most go to earn a degree, teaching them a trade, giving them a path to a career better than what they feel they could have obtained without one