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[andyBeaker]

One of the most successful people I have ever known started an IT recruitment company with a school friend that he sold for £40,000.

Oh, and he won £4.6m on the lottery.

 

[Cougar377]

Just to disprove everything above, my son was a superstar in education, can't remember how many A* he got at GCSE level but it was something like ten or twelve with a 100% hit rate, 3 A* at A Level and a Bsc with Honours in economics.. He subsequently trained as a chartered account and is ACCA and also has a qualification in statistics.

Last year his income was approaching seven figures, he lives in an eff off house worth c£1.5m and the family cars are an M3 and Range Roger.

He is 33.

Who says education doesn't pay....

Is this the son you seem to do all the DIY work for..?

 

[Jaws]

I told a fib in my post on this thread.. It was O levels I sat, not gce's
I got 7, but my little sister beat me with 9.. She decided to go straight to work for the Pru at their head office and decided not to go to uni though

 

[Lee337]

It seems from reading this thread that the key to success is mostly not education, but working your a$$ off, although even that doesn't guarantee success.

 

[Jaws]

It seems from reading this thread that the key to success is mostly not education, but working your a$$ off, although even that doesn't guarantee success.

All my bits of paper gained from education have done VERY little for me career wise
In fact on two occasions they stopped me getting the job applied for, the firms offering me a totally different job on both occasions
Due to the type of stuff I used to be involved in, about once every 3 years or so, i would get a job in a factory just to be able to switch off and do mindless repetitive work for a month or so
After a mental recoup I would go back to a more cerebral job.
I did NOT want a job i accounts, nor one in research.. Of course the plebs in HR could not understand that at all

 

[Squag1]

Guy I knew began as electrical apprentice. He worked and studied up to PhD.
He followed a woman to Canada when he was late 20s I'd say.
He went for loads of interviews without success. After one interview one of them took him aside and told him to take the PhD off the cv and he would have a better chance of getting a job.
His father told me, so I don't know what happened. He's there a long time now.

 

[derek kelly]

Bev used to do agency as a Health care assistant, as she worked for three agencies & always got good reports she earned a couple of promotions, then the agency work started to dry up as they did not want to pay the higher rate.

 

[slim63]

It seems from reading this thread that the key to success is mostly not education, but working your a$$ off, although even that doesn't guarantee success.

Spot on mate, all you need is enough brain to realise nothing comes for free so you have to work for it

I was always in minor bother at school because I couldn't learn in the way they wanted to teach, but I did learn in my own way through hard work & persistence & passed every GCSE, now I have a bunch of bits of paper to my name none of which mean a damn thing unless you can do the job, I have seen plenty over the years with trade qualifications coming out their ears who have absolutely no practical skills to the point you begin to wonder how the hell they managed to get dressed in the morning let alone get to work unaided