Hello and welcome back to ComparExtraIncome’s new and improved Blog. I admit that the whole blogging culture is a new concept to me, one I have discovered I need to get the hang of quickly if I want to work from home. Thanks to all those site users that followed my original amatuer Blog and I hope this new one satisfies your curiosities even further. Bear with me and I am sure I will become a blogging pro in no time at all! I would certainly be interested in learning from those that manage to make a living from the concept. Genuine talents such as blogging are yet to be explored on comparextraincome as ways of making a living from the comfort and flexibility of our homes.
There are so many creative ways to earn a living these days, no longer are we confined to the “9 to 5″ slog ( although I think the term “9 to 5″ is now understated and should be changed to “9 to 6″ at the least). Times have changed dramatically. No longer can we go to university get excellent qualifications and have earned the right to walk straight into a well paid “job for life.” For a parent such as myself it leaves you in a very uneasy dilemma of how to best advise your kids and set them up for the future.
Although times have clearly changed, we seem to be in a transition stage, too afraid to go against our parents advice to get a good education and a well titled job. Definitely petrified to preach anything remotely different to our own off spring. I believe a good basic education and therefore sound understanding of the basics of life are highly important to everyone. I wouldn’t tell my kids school is not important or unnecessary, a basic knowledge is important to us all.
However I do wonder if advising them to go further than secondary education is the “right” advice or rather the “best” advice I can send them into the big wide world with. If you have a strong desire to become a doctor, lawyer or other title that requires further education then obviously this path is unavoidable. Most adolescents at this stage in their lives don’t have a path mapped out and have no idea what life should have in store for them. Yet I believe at such an age you are at your most courageous, imaginative and creative stage of life. You have no inhibitions. Anything seems possible and you still have that innocents and arrogance to go ahead and believe it’s possible despite society telling you “you can’t.”
In fact negative words such as “impossible, no, cannot be done” only further encourage an adolescent mind to actually do it. This attitude has created many a new product and company along with success stories for those that created them. The qualities that we have seen as “bad behaviour” and an “attitude they will grow out of” in our adolescents are actually an assetto them if channelled correctly. I certainly encourage my kids to think for themselves and be creative. Every child is unique and has a talent that can be strengthened. I don’t believe we all need a degree displaying this talent and a huge debt, to put them into best use any more however.
I guess the million dollar question is “Whats the best path? Self employment or a job?”
As an adolescent I certainly didn’t show too much awareness of life’s opportunity and wish I had taken school more seriously when I had the chance. I guess it’s sites like these that can speak to younger people who have not yet formed an idea of their path through life. I wish I was an airline pilot now, but I didn’t realise how precious school was when it could have made a difference.