Offbeat: Education VS creativity

As almost everybody knows with the current education system education and creativity can not coexist (with some rare exceptions), nowadays people are not taught to try to amount to something that is really what they want, instead they are driven to the most typical jobs with no regard for the unique set of skills that each one has, so which should you choose?

Well the best would be to be able to choose both but seen that you can't what's best?

If you choose to be creative and dismiss education odds are you will end up working for a minimum salary doing something you like but it's not really at the level that you want and it probably will not pay you enough to do everything you want, but still it's what you want..

If you choose to get an education you will probably end up working for slightly above minimum wage, doing something safe that you never wanted to do, but if you look at it with the student loans you will have to pay the financial stability won't be what you expect...

So you are forced to choose between spending an insane amount of money to get a higher education to do something you don't want to do or you can save that money and just keep your creativity and do something you like. Hard choice right?

There is one exception to that, when you study what you really want to learn, in that situation you have a really bright future ahead, you will have the tools to develop and the passion to stick to the job.

General: Are highly paid careers really a dream?

Student debt

Most people think that you just get a degree and you are all set, but is it really?

If you want to know wich are the highest paid careers in the US the link is right here.

Well, if you do simple math it becomes a little more blurry than that.

Most people think of careers as medicine and law as highly lucrative careers but think again, on these careers you usually get about 100.000$ or 150.000$ is study related debts and you loose the chance to get job experience and an income that could serve you to invest, so you are loosing a lot to study, you loose money and the opportunity to make money. what most people think is that after this you will get a great job and get paid a lot right?
Guess again, most student that finish these degrees (or any other) don't start getting a great paycheck, they receive a normal paycheck, after a few years just a little above average and usually cary this debt for many years and it is a real concern, it prevents you from a lot.

You'd think i am of the opinion that you should not get an education. Well, for most people it's hopeless, you might as well burn your money, some people, even if they do get a degree they will finish the degree knowing nothing but what they knew before (most students really); what I'm saying is that you you do go and get higher education choose something you are genuinely passioned about, not what is more socially appropriate, be genuine, because in any situation in you life the part that of you that generates great results is passion, if you are passioned about what you do the income will appear and you will get the recognition that you want.

All that you can expect from education is getting better if you are genuinely interested in what you are doing, otherwise just don't do it, if you don't like what you do or study you are just wasting your time with education, if you do not have the desire to pursuit knowledge in any area just save the money and get a job and start earning job experience and personal income, this may seem cold but in the ling run it's for the best.

Offbeat: The difference between students and prisoners

There are a lot of differences between students and prisoners, that's not what I'm going for, what I want to pass on is the difference in how the state and consequently the government treats each of those completely different classes of people.

You would think that a student would be more important to the state than a prisoner, right? I mean prisoners should get the minimum conditions for whatever they did (the minimum human needs of course, let's not be animals) and the student would have a lot of attention because they are the future and can't provide for themselves and having in mind that the average cost of rising a kid can rise up to 200.000$ (depending on your country it can be even higher) you would think that the average spending on a student would be higher than the average spending on a prisoner but guess again.

As you can see by the image above, regarding the state of Michigan (but it repeats all over the world, especially Norway) the average spending per prisoner is significantly higher the the average spending per student, but what does this mean?

Well, in a very simple assessment you can realize that for the state it is more important to make sure that the prisoners are comfortable after a murder than to make sure that a kid has a bright future, this is the stone cold truth (I'm sure that most politicians also consider the possibility that they are going to end up in the same situation, so the more they invest in prisons and prisoners the alternative of a bad future is not so bad).

It's almost unbelievable that the education today is so undermined that students  get less attention and investment than prisoners, this is the reason why the world is how it is, because our governors, the people that should try to make sure that the entire population lives in the best way possible care more about giving opportunities to people who don't deserve it, for the government it is more important to make sure that who does nothing will get something then to make sure that people who work and do their very best to have something more. It's the reality that we live in, the people are constantly trapped by money and can do nothing but to live breathe and work and if one of those stops it's over, meanwhile prisoners are having all handed to them in a silver platter.

This raises a question... Who are really the prisoners?