Comments on: A Perpetual Achievement http://www.achieveyourcareer.com/blog/a-perpetual-achievement/ A discussion about online degrees and your career Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:27:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Marie http://www.achieveyourcareer.com/blog/a-perpetual-achievement/#comment-3180 Marie Fri, 08 May 2009 12:54:38 +0000 http://www.achieveyourcareer.com/blog/?p=781#comment-3180 I hear you loud and clear. On a sitcom the other night, a person said, "You know, what good did college do me? I don't remember one course that has helped me in my life". I, like you, remember the awesome gratifying achievement of completing all those hours and credits. A former boss one said to me that all a college degree meant to him in hiring someone was that they could be 'trainable'. It is more than that. Upon graduation, along with that wonderful feeling of accomplishment and yes, pride in myself, I also realized how many things I still did not know. College gives you an overall blueprint of how and why life works and where you can fit into it. Experience is a plus, but you need the college pieces of the puzzle to connect to where you are, where you are going and what you need to do so. It is the great 'finishing tool' of higher actualization. I hear you loud and clear. On a sitcom the other night, a person said, “You know, what good did college do me? I don’t remember one course that has helped me in my life”. I, like you, remember the awesome gratifying achievement of completing all those hours and credits. A former boss one said to me that all a college degree meant to him in hiring someone was that they could be ‘trainable’. It is more than that. Upon graduation, along with that wonderful feeling of accomplishment and yes, pride in myself, I also realized how many things I still did not know. College gives you an overall blueprint of how and why life works and where you can fit into it. Experience is a plus, but you need the college pieces of the puzzle to connect to where you are, where you are going and what you need to do so. It is the great ‘finishing tool’ of higher actualization.

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