I was talking to a lady today who moved to Vancouver not too long ago as a result of her husband having to relocate for career purposes. Because of that, she wasn’t too familiar with the area. The interesting thing was instead of just taking free time and exploring the area or say paying someone to help her, she decided to do some work that required frequent traveling to different locations. As a result, she got to learn the area pretty well as well as getting paid for it.

I definitely agree with that train of thought provided one has the time and flexibility to do so. I remember another example way back where one guy I knew decided to learn about restaurant management and paid thousands of dollars to learn about it and afterwards with that training and knowledge he found a job in his desired profession.

At the same time, another person literally just worked from bottom up at a restaurant and eventually became a manager pretty much at the same time as the other person. It is safe to say that they both were qualified to work in a management position. I thought that was such an interesting contrast at the time too where it was literally one person was being paid to learn and the other was paying to learn.

Of course that’s not saying for example you should never pay for say an education as in many situations that is the most productive and safe way to do it. But in general even other examples like say if you want to join an exercise club to stay healthy which you pay a monthly membership for, deciding to casually work at something that requires more physically activity may achieve similar results too and at the same time you can earn some money while you’re at it.

I was watching this piece about how a lot of people believed that as a result of not having resources and upper class schools compared to some of their peers that they do not have an equal playing field in life when it comes to making a good living. Example, all the less fortunate will be forced to work as grocery store clerks and the others would go on to be say some kind of executive.

This is one of those issues where I am inclined to say where in many ways it’s true from a resource point of view such as if I have a computer to work with and the other doesn’t then obviously I am going to be more technically inclined. At the same time, I have to believe that as long as you learn basic skills like reading then you can easily learn things like how to use a computer afterwards if necessary.

It’s like an athlete I suppose. Even if one guy doesn’t necessarily have all these exercising equipment and weights compared to another person, just training the essentials properly can kind of put you on the same league if not better in terms of strength and endurance if it came down to a competition afterwards.

I mean, there are a ton of people with simply a high school education that earn a lot more financially compared to say a person with a bachelor degree. Like with that example it shows me that your income is more tied to how you apply your knowledge as oppose to what you learned necessarily. I always saw tying your income to your education is a little risky as you are kind of setting yourself up to expect certain things to just come to you as a result. If your income is tied to anything, it’s more about one’s choices in life I’d say.