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Sales... You don't need to be a high school graduate to sell stuff. I know a high school drop out that started selling cars about 15 years ago. He's now the general manager at one of the largest dealerships in Pennsylvania. This year he's made well into the six figures despite the economy.
Sales... You don't need to be a high school graduate to sell stuff. I know a high school drop out that started selling cars about 15 years ago. He's now the general manager at one of the largest dealerships in Pennsylvania. This year he's made well into the six figures despite the economy.
Something tells me he is the exception rather than the rule.
HS dropouts don't have much of a future unless they make one. Other that than that it's minimum wage for the rest of your life.
A few may become luky like the one mentioned who became a car sales person, but most will not.
I have a HS diploma, and i have not moved very far, though i've tried.
Although maybe the skills i have aquired will help me to move up in the company i work for now.
If they get a GED they can look into apprenticeship programs like the IBEW (electrician), free training, free education, and getting paid while you learn. Maybe become a mechanic or something else where one can get on the job training in a skill.
Some high school dropouts get lucky.
But those are very few.
Dropouts have already proven they are not committed to a task. (Things get rough, I quit mentality)
They have no personal achievement goals and the false sense of security that good things will just fall out of the sky and hit them on the head and make life great with no effort on their part.
LIFE DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY THESE DAYS.
If you drop out of school you might as well start collecting newspapers and boxes to cover up with to keep you warm. Because you just might end up being homeless and the target of other homeless people who are bigger than you.
On average, at the very best, you will always be a minimum wage earner. No house, no long term family, no old age security.
Just dreams that never come true because a dropout is a quitter that never achieves anything in todays pecking order.
If your lucky, you might get a warm place to stay and 3 meals a day and one hour of sunshine a day. In jail. Dropouts tend to do bad things just to help them survive that eventualy puts them in the cooler.
A generation (or two) ago a dropout could make a good life because of all the manufacturing job plants in the country that just needed bodys to perform a certain operation.
A lot of those jobs are gone. Even the ones that still exist demand a high school education or GED.
Even McD's wont consider a dropout when they have so many people applying for jobs with a high school education.
Times are tough. Employers are going to pick the cream of the crop if by chance they are even doing any hiring.
I don't know but I wonder if people still believe if you get a college degree or further your life is going to be great.
I thought so but I haven't been able to get (yet) a career off the ground. I got my Masters in Teaching (BA in English) Elementary school but it's so competitive. I was out of the field for awhile because the only options are preschool teaching, which I did (pays horribly) or hope to get a sub job that doesn't guarantee a livable income.
I think it's important to finish high school, don't get me wrong, but 'lots of college' is not a cushion (despite the stats).
If you go work for a Union company you can make alot. UPS hires dropouts and you can make $50,000 after 3 years of driving and you get a pension. I'm a HS dropout myself but have gotten my GED and will start driving for UPS next year after being with them for 3.5 years.
The Military is also another good choice. You won't make as much as the above company but you wont have any bills, the work is easier in most cases, and you can retire earlier.
If you go work for a Union company you can make alot. UPS hires dropouts and you can make $50,000 after 3 years of driving and you get a pension.
You don't walk into UPS and begin driving. You start p/t on the line working the 9:00 pm to 2:00 am shift. Hours are not guaranteed. It usually takes 8-12 years of working the line before you graduate to brownie truck driver. Even then you usually only sub to begin with.
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