My daughter wants to delay going to the university and work for a year and a half before she decides what specifically she wants to major in and well, if she even wants to go to university.
I think that's the bravest and brightest decision a girl can make for her future and this mom is gonna stand by her decision and swell with pride at my baby who swallows norms and spits them out.
For I have been a university undergraduate, a university lecturer and I have worked for ppl and i now am an entrepreneur who runs my own business. And I don't care about university degrees. The real world teaches you far much more than 4 years in any university can prepare you for.
I have had far too many disgruntled engineers, lawyers and doctors trying their hand at writing in my editorial department because they were forced to do a degree they didnt care about and were not passionate about.
Degrees don't define you.
Your character does. Your drive does. Your passion, ambition and acute powers of observation does.
Your understanding of life as seen from a macroscopic and not myopic view does.
Your tenacity and perseverance and courage under fire does.
Your eternal optimism in the face of constant failure does.
These that define you, propel you to heights most can't reach.
Case in point ? I am a Physics graduate but I run a publishing firm. Bottom line - degrees don't define you. You define you.
