The Street: Life’s University

It's been said that schools are like factories for producing employees. Students are like products and teachers are like blue-collar workers.

Elementary school, junior high, high school, and finally college are like different departments along the assembly line. Each department prepares the product for the next stage of it's assembly, finally to be shipped to the customer.

And who's the customer? Business owners.

And depending on the what kind of specialized school, the finished employee, through their special skills or areas of expertise, are then marketed to businesses just as factories create products that are sold to consumers for their features and benefits.

Schools train us to fit into a specific system, a certain path, from day one -- unless we choose to break away and live our own lives, according to the path we decide to hack and slash.

Generally, it are these people who end of creating their own businesses, founded on their passion.

There's nothing wrong with being an employee, assuming you're involved in what you're passionate about. But that's just the problem with taking the "Employee Path".

It seems most people tend to become employees not because it's a field they're passionate about, but rather because they get hung-up on 'survival'. Their motivation is the dollar, and little else.

Of course, the same can apply to people starting businesses as well.

They sacrifice their true interests in life for a guaranteed paycheck when, if they'd pursue their true passion, though, financially, they might struggle for a number of years, they would eventually start pulling in a higher income than the guarantees of being an employee.

Schools tend to teach us not take that risk -- the risk of being a financial disaster zone for any amount of time.

Instead, they want you to become addicted to a paycheck.

But it is during that financial disaster zone that we receive an education they don't teach us in school. These are the lessons of the street. And the street is a much more potent teacher than any university.

The street is life's university. It teaches self-reliance. On the street, you have nothing but your mind. You don't have an insurance policy, like a college degree. You have to rely on your gut. You have to learn your lessons by failing -- not by succeeding, as they teach you in school.

If there's one trait women really want in a man, it's self-reliance. They want a man who can handle himself in any situation, regardless of whether he's been dealt a poor hand. This involves self-control, mastering the emotions.

The only way to learn that is on the street. This is something a university degree will not give you in itself.

The street doesn't give you a pool of knowledge, like a school. It teaches you how to use the knowledge you have to get what you want or how to get the knowledge you need to get what you want.

If you find yourself looking at the options other people give you in life: this school or that school, this occupation or that occupation, etc... and you find yourself having to choose between the 'lesser of two evils', there is another choice!

Yours! Follow your interests. Follow what you're passionate about, and what you love. Getting into a line of work simply because someone offered it to you or it was the only thing available will lead to the death of your Soul.

Follow your passions despite the poverty you may have to endure. Would you rather be happy with no money... or miserable with lots of money?

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