31^st April 2010

I woke up late today, after turning three alarms and not even realising it. Today, I honestly felt like crap, exhausted nearly. Working in the industry that I do work in is crazy. What I want to write about today is the level of people’s education.

I myself am still going to university to complete a Bachelor Degree, I have completed a Graduate Certificate. I was accepted into the Graduate certificate based on special circumstances and had obtained entrance via a submission and conditions. Today, somebody made me feel really down at the fact that I don’t have a Bachelor Degree.  I’ve always done things the way I wanted to do. I’m a real firm believer of the fact that you can do things and be successful based on yourself motivation, determination, and building on skills and knowledge that you already posses.  

I don’t like it when somebody puts another person down because they don’t have a lot of qualifications. Honestly you can have all the qualifications in the world but it doesn’t earn people’s respect. Maybe in the past it did and maybe it still does, I don’t know. I understand that this person may have spend their whole life with their nose in a book, but everyone at one stage would have done that.  Everybody possesses different qualities, traits, skills and abilities. This is what makes us all unique.  There are many people in the world who are successful and don’t have qualification eg. Bill gates is a prime example of this.

I acknowledge that, yes people with a few degrees have done the hard yard of studies to be where they are in the world, that’s awesome!  But you can have all these degrees and go to work in a large corporate companies and still not have the respect that you think you should have because your over qualified.  (then you just become a office nazi because you start to demand it!). Respect is a very important thing in life.

 I am a strong person when I am determined. I rarely look down on people. Encouraging is believing is what I believe in.  I have a good job, actually I have the same title as that person.  I work full time and study my bachelor degree part-time.  Only difference is that she’s two bachelor and honours ahead of me.  Oh well big deal

I always encourage people to do better for themselves no matter where they are in their lives, anybody can do it and make thing happen for themselves if they want to.  Whether you have a degree or not it doesn’t matter.

I know I’d probably be attacked by all the major qualification holders but hey you the right to comment, but not put people down. If it seem like I have put down people down I’m sorry it was unintentional.  Just a reminder to all those people who think that they are better then everyone because you have more qualification then another person to encourage people in doing whatever they are doing and excel in it.  Lifes too short for anything else.