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Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by Scamfender: 10:21pm On Oct 25, 2014 |
My friend who is a highly gifted surgeon once shared a most interesting tale with me. One of his lab technicians was retiring after many years of government service, and invited him to a party at her home in one of the peri-urban areas near the city. He was most amazed when he got there to find that this very ordinary-looking lady lived in a beautiful three bedroomed house whose construction she had supervised. He was even more impressed when he toured her small adjoining farm with greenhouses and several healthy exotic cows. The icing on the cake was meeting her three children, who were all students in prestigious local universities. As my friend considered his considerable education loans and high monthly expenditure, he realised that this lady, who had never earned anything close to his current salary, was far wealthier than he could imagine himself being! It's a paradox that the people working in the most prestigious and well-paid careers tend to be the ones with the highest expenditure and the most debt. This reality is often hidden because they dress better, live in posher neighbourhoods, have more expensive gadgets and drive nicer cars. But the reality is that true financial freedom is not a factor of how big your salary is, but how long you would survive if you lost that salary today. And on that count, highly educated people tend to fare badly! The more educated you are, the more likely you are to suffer from 'paralysis of analysis'. You analyse different opportunities to death, finding all sorts of reasons why they won't work. Meanwhile, your less educated contemporaries who know less about why things should fail often just jump in and make a try of it, and end up successful as a result! Highly educated people also tend to suffer from what has been referred to as 'the curse of the gifted'. They can achieve proficiency at many things, so they end up drowning in ... Click to read more http://www.scamfender.com/2014/09/find-out-why-educated-people-dont-get.html?m=1 1 Like
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Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by nomabeeee(f): 10:31pm On Oct 25, 2014 |
I disagree |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by oluwadanie1(m): 10:49pm On Oct 25, 2014 |
I also disagree. There are lots of educated people who are extremely rich. |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by gebony(m): 10:50pm On Oct 25, 2014 |
if education maketh pple wealthy, professors will be d richest people in the world 4 Likes |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by julisa2020(f): 11:29pm On Oct 25, 2014 |
hmmm...you're kinda correct tho@op...but whats the aim of this post...to discourage people from going to school 3 Likes |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by Nobody: 8:09am On Oct 26, 2014 |
Smh. Just passing by. |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by 100Cents: 9:32am On Oct 26, 2014 |
gebony: Don't mind them. Here I see young men in business making up to N100,000 on weekly basis in business. When a so called PhD holder in a federal university is waiting for lecturer salary of N180,000 monthly . Most businessmen think harder and wider than our professors. They reason on a hundred possible ways to make a business sail through. If your professor is not an inventor, he is not a thinker my dear. We all went to school, white collar job is more energy sapping because you are on a routine schedule but when you are about starting a new line of business and you aren't an apprentice, that when you understand how daunting the word THINKING is... No matter how big ones salary is, if that person is not disciplined, he cannot get wealthy. People earning N50k build houses but some earning N200k continue paying rent for 10 long years and club every weekend.. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by fyneboi79(m): 9:56am On Oct 26, 2014 |
100Cents:I completely agree with dis post 1 Like |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by Xynthialuvy(f): 11:01am On Oct 26, 2014 |
I agree wit d op |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by godwinony(m): 11:55am On Oct 26, 2014 |
these days all the topic I see on nairaland are promoting dropping out of sch .. |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by Nobody: 11:56am On Oct 26, 2014 |
100Cents:The bomb^ okwu agwu! |
Re: Find Out Why Educated People Don't Get Rich by Scamfender: 9:00pm On Oct 30, 2014 |
This post is not intended to deter people from formal education. It only addressed the 'mentality' issues that more educated people are faced with. The more educated you are, the more you are acquinted with modern life styles, and you feel the need to meet up with what others expect of you. What do others expect of you? An educated man should wear suit to work. He should dress how he wants to be addressed. He should aim to use very good cars. He should work in a place that imposes respect on him. He should live so and so life style. _ These mentalities are killer-mentalities. Most bankers today DO NOT HAVE ANY SAVINGS, but they live in good rented houses, and drive big cars (on installmental payments from their salaries). They practically live a life style for which their 'gold reserve' does not correlate. _ once that job is gone, what happens? .. .. In summary, what this post is driving at is : The 'educated' mentality is what is killing alot of our finances. We should ALL be educated, its very important. However, we should recognise that a balance in finances in the long run is better than a short-run excellent out-look, which could fall off the hill if a small rock is displaced. |
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