Chaunuchi wrote:
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I don't know what you are asking for (trolling for) here. A generalization like all who don't want to go to college are idiots, tall, have blue eyes or are neo-classical violinists?
My thoughts would be about each person and there is no general one size answer fits all here. In todays world there are many paths to how one supports themselves. As a number have noted some paths are clear cut and others a product of passion or happenstance.
A friend went to Catherine Gibbs School*
http://l-empress.liscious.net/older/005525.htmllate 1960s Her first job was as executive secretary to a department manager at The Waldorf Astoria. She found the work to her liking and as her boss moved up the success ladder in the hotel industry she went with him. They almost 20 years as a team. When her boss retired she found herslf looking for a job because she could not see herself working for( read that in partnership with) anyone else. She looked for an investment property and with hospitality industry partners she identified along travels bought into a struggling three motel business along Florida's Intercoastal waterway. That business now has investments in over three dozen hospitality ventures in the south east ranging from a small B&Bs, long and short term motels, a roadside attraction complex and a 225 room beachfront hotel in Ft Lauderdale.
She swears she never had a plan.
Her daughter a Columbia grad is in her third year as her mothers executive secretary. .. she does have a plan.
*the blog post linked is not hers but it does nicely explain what secretarial school was like back when.