It's one of the things you have to do to be more successful. If you're good with your hands by all means go learn a trade. There's $ out there for skilled trades.You don't have to go to college to make more income, just be more willing to work a trade that pays more, or start your own business...Yea but what does Subway or the mom and pop pay? Minimum wage? $10 hr?The largest job creators in the USA are small businesses, not the corporations..Quality has nothing to do with it. The FACT is that rich people put more money into the economy, hire and pay more people, and make more money available for investment than I do. I simply do not care if they have more than I do, if they earned what they have or it was given to them. I have enough.Well, that should make them better than all of us..On the contrary, it's very true. Paris Hilton can spend more on a weekend shopping trip than I do in a year. I don't care how much they don't spend.
The more ostentatious a person is, the more status symbols they flaunt, the more stuff they have, the more they are employing people to make things. Ironically, it is the rich guy who lives simply and doesn't try to outdo his neighbors that isn't pumping money back into the economy.
I went to an eye doctor. Probably a small business owner and a franchise owner. How much do you think all the young girls that work for them make? $10? Then I went to a doctor. How much do all those girls make? Then I went to a pharmacy and there were a bunch of young girls working for the pharmacist. My point is, there are sooo many young people in America that don't make shit for a living. We need those small business' hiring all those unskilled low educated people but if I were them I'd much rather work for Ford or GM or Thomson Reuters or any other big company that pays their employees well. Even the low skilled/educated workers get paid well at bigger companies.
And I'm not arguing that we should make those small business' pay better. Those young ladies working for peanuts can go to school and get an education like I did if they want to make more. Sorry if a dental assistant only makes $8 hr. At least they aren't washing dishes or picking up trash for a living.
And if you are sharp enough to start a business great! I'm neither good with my hands or an entrepreneur. I had to go to college to get jobs that pay well.
If I could have gone right into sales I would have skipped college. I work with too many salespeople who've told me they didn't go to college but it helps to have a degree when interviewing