Successful people with lowly beginnings

[taylor]

I tend to agree with Basket Weaver a bachelors degree doesn't have the "wow" factor it once had. For every industry that I read is recession proof I know people in that industry that have been laid off. Over the summer I was playing in a church softball game and as our team was sitting on the bench awaiting to bat I was stuck in a conversation with a pediatrician and 2 attorneys. I was thinking, oh great, these guys are going to talk about how great their lives are and I'm going to have to share how I've been struggling the last year. On the contrary, I found out the pediatrician was about to close his practice because he was losing money and the 2 attorneys were laid off and struggling to find jobs themselves. Also, a couple of years ago some police depts. were offering $5,000-$10,000 signing bonuses for police recruits. Now a lot of people who want to be cops are spending way more than $10,000 (approximately $5,000 for the academy, no income for 6 months while attending) to sponsor themselves through a police academy with no guarantee of a job just to make themselves a better candidate than the other thousands of applicants seeking a position in law enforcement. My point is right now, there's no profession out there that hasn't been affected by the economy in some way or another. So right now like others have posted in the past, it is the perfect time for people to catch up on their education or advance their education before things pick up so we'll be prepared to open the door and tackle when opportunity knocks.cheersmate