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Hello Wealthy Affiliate intellectuals, great thinkers, and talented counselors, I send my greetings!
Today, I have another very important question that I will appreciate your contributions in helping us to know how to handle. You know, these days so many people are dealing with a lot of issues at different levels
Many without being told have a lot of unexpressed feelings, and that's why the depression rate keeps rising; because some are struggling and ridden with the anxiety of self-identity. How best to define their lives in the complicated, and competitive world of today. So, part of the solution and help we can offer should be knowledge-based and experience-based. I hope you got me right? Great!
So, here is a very important question, someone asked a counselor. I'm sharing it because I believe that two heads are better than one.
QUESTION: "Should a college-educated woman feel that she has wasted her training if she chooses not to use it professionally?
Yeah, what advice will give to any girl or woman who feels this way. Who feels that there is no need of going to university to obtain a degree, while she will wind up raising her kids? Let us get your thoughtful and honest contributions.
As always, thanks in anticipation for your valuable comments!
And if she chooses not to use it professionally, she must have reasons, and she doesn't have to explain herself to anybody.
Besides that, I'm sure the knowledge she gained is not useless. Or if the knowledge was false, at least it was realized. I have had "education" where I knew it was all lies, but recognizing the lies as lies left me with the truth!
It may have been an expensive lesson, financially, as well as time-wise, but I could have ended up learning it a harder way, or not at all!
I hope this is in some way relevant to the situation you are talking about. :)
Craig
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Again, thanks for your comment.
Yes, I know that I am what many would call a conspiracy theorist, like that was a bad thing. In fact, they are no longer theories, as they once were. There is evidence everywhere, in plain sight, for anybody with courage enough to look.
Well... you asked! :D
I am talking about the Narrow gate vs; the wide one.
Erlene
that any investment to gain knowledge is a worthy investment.
Anybody regardless of gender, age, and culture that has the opportunity and the desire to learn should not hesitate. While we hope that the government should fight to make it affordable for everyone, to reverse the student loan burdens.
Thanks, Erlene, for your excellent contribution.
Stephen
Education doesn't only prepare a person for a particular line of work. As important as that is, a University degree helps for our intellectual development.
By broadening our intellectual faculty. The decision to use one's degree to work outside the home is and should be a personal decision because you own the degree.
Alternatively, she may opt-in for professional courses. It's always good to always have an alternative; no one can predict what happens tomorrow.
What's important is for her to follow her passion.
Higher education empowers your economic advancement, all things being equal. It adds to your value, self-esteem, and gives your a better knowledge about life generally.
However, following your line of thought, it is left as an individual's choice based on his or her purpose, and passion to determine the best way to make good use of the education to benefit self and others.
