College Degree,Courses,Education

How to Find What Subjects to Study19 Dec

There are so many courses and fields of study available now that it can be quite bewildering to find the right course to take up.

If you have finished high school and do not know what you want to do, you can be quite confused. In fact, you should start considering your choice of study and the university you want to go to at least a year before you actually finish schooling. Going through all the formalities and finally being accepted at a university takes time.

Study fields open to you

If you know you want to be a doctor, a teacher, a lawyer, an engineer, a chartered accountant, you are secure in the knowledge and have your research in place. There are millions of people out there who do not know what they want to do in their lives and so are at a loss. Often they take up jobs after high school and either stop their studies completely or take them up after some… Read More

Careers,College Degree,Education,Jobs

How to Find Careers That Do Not Require a Degree15 Apr

As of 2005, according to USA Today, 64 percent of high school move on to attend college, but only 29 percent graduate. So even if you never attend college, you are in the majority of Americans in the job pool.

Does this mean that you are excluded from making a lot of money or even the American dream of becoming wealthy? Of course not. To encourage you, here are some famous people who never made it through high school or never attended or completed college.

We’ll take them alphabetically but don’t have space to go from A to Z.

Lucille Ball was a high school dropout. Roseanne Barr was too. Carl Bernstein, famed Watergate reporter quit college. Andrew Carnegie, left school and started working when he was 13. Astronaut Scott Carpenter, failed out of college twice. Charles Dickens never finished elementary school. Thomas Edison was home schooled until he went to work on the railroad at age 12. US President Millard Fillmore had only 6 months of school in his life. Bill Gates, quit Harvard after two years. William Randolph… Read More