If You're Hearing This It's Too Late

The hosts discuss the importance of education and how it influences future success. They highlight the significance of early education in teaching how to learn and work in a school environment. A study shows that early school habits and a strong work ethic have a direct link to career success and life satisfaction. They also mention the importance of social skills developed during elementary and middle school. Secondary education, such as college or trade school, is emphasized as essential for job opportunities and career growth. However, the rising cost of college is making it less financially viable for some. The hosts conclude by thanking the listeners and their guest, and invite them to tune in for the next episode. Welcome back, everyone. Thank you for tuning back into If You're Hearing This It's Too Late. I'm Brady, and here's my co-host. What's up, everyone? I'm Nick. Today's episode, we're continuing the storyline put together by our last. We brought Drew back on as well. How are you doing today? Yeah, it's great to be back, guys. So if you didn't hear our last episode, we're discussing something particularly important. We'll be covering the topic of education and how this influences your future. So we all go to the University of Connecticut. I personally am studying biology and hope this can help me in finding a future job. I'm studying finance. I'm really hoping to make a lot of money in the future. I'm studying business management so that one day I can build my own businesses. As you can see, all of us chose the college route, so education is very important to us. We all must go through some sort of education at some point in our lives so everyone can feel the real impact it has on our lives as students. So recently, I read an article from Forbes.com, and this article tried to emphasize the true importance of education early on with elementary and grade school and even up to middle school. And so this source focused a lot on how the early education more teaches you how to learn instead of these further on life skills and how this is super important for the future. And even though in the beginning years, you're not learning that much other than like basic life skills and like things such as multiplication tables and all that, but you're really learning how to work in an environment with other people and learning how to work in a school environment so that later on in life, you can go to a higher education that will help you hone in your skills in something very important. So there was an Office Depot study that showed that hobbies and strong work ethic early on in your career have a direct link to later career success as well as salary. And those who thought that their early school habits had no impact on life satisfaction ultimately reported the lowest average life satisfaction in the 35th percentile, as opposed to those who believe that early school habits had a major impact on their life satisfaction reported to have the 65th percentile of satisfaction. So I think this is a super interesting statistic that shows that people who have the right mindset about schooling and to think that schooling is very important early on end up having a happier life and a greater life later on. I definitely agree with what that's saying. I think the idea of like working together in like elementary and middle school where you're really like coming in and developing is extremely important. Like look at homeschooled kids. A lot of times those kids aren't able to have like the same social abilities as kids who went to public school or private school or just like were around other children. I think it's like super important to like value that experience. And even if you don't like go on to higher education, it's really like developing you and it's something that everyone needs. Yeah, I mean, I also agree. You know, like the young mind is super malleable. You know, a lot can influence people at this age. Yeah, I really think it's just a critical time, you know, to get a real basis on your education. And, you know, it just it's crazy. The statistics, you know, it's just if you just see, yeah, just simply being in school and like, you know, it just gives you that much of a, you know, a leg up in life. Yeah, yeah, I agree with that, especially like to piggyback off what Nick said with not like gaining as many social skills. You could see through like the pandemic, people that didn't get to experience their like middle school years and around there, they had different like social impacts to like having to live online and making these like more important steps to like growing up. They ended up a lot different than people who grew up actually before that happened. Yeah, I remember in high school when those kids who had to go through middle school online through the pandemic came into high school, they acted way differently than how everyone who I had like gone through with acted. So we all thought it was like really different and like in a sense weird, but like not like in a bad way on like how that pandemic like affected how these kids were like developing. Yeah, I mean, there's, there's the big, you know, academic side to things to your education. There's, you know, the actual school work and how hard you can work in school, but there's all, yeah, the social side is also equally as important because it doesn't matter what you study, what degree you are trying to get or, you know, with what honors you graduate in high school from, there's still just this super important side to education. That's, you know, the social side, how to interact with people because, you know, at the end of the day, like you can't get anywhere without, you know, having these skills and strengths. Yeah, definitely. And so this second source that I looked at from onerec.com, it showed, this is more talking about secondary education as opposed to this primary education. And so college or trade school or whatever comes after the first primary high school is a lot more important. So 65% of all jobs in the U.S. economy require this post-secondary education and training beyond high school. And so many applications look at this education level and it will see that like what level did you finally complete before you're looking for this job. And the average person in the real world actually changes their job 10 to 15 times in their career. So think about how many times an employer will be looking at your education and your grades and how important this is because, I mean, who would you rather hire? Somebody that dropped out of high school and had bad grades or somebody that went on through college and honed in their skills and were more proficient in these things. And so this growth in a professional network can lead to many internships. There's a lot of companies that hire directly out of college and universities. And there's a ton of opportunities that are not seen in everyday life, like opportunities to work in labs before working in the real thing and different opportunities like this. And so this really boosts your worth ethic and employers will want to see this coming into a job. This will help you get promotions later on, help you keep jobs in case of layoffs. So I really think that this secondary education is a huge boost to working towards a viable job in the real world. Well, I definitely agree that college is an important part of someone's journey, but I think it's getting less important as like time goes by because it's getting a lot more expensive and that financial commitment can really like bring you down the line. So as much as I think going to college is important, like obviously I'm here, I think it's definitely seeing a point in time where for like the first time ever and maybe reaching a time where it's like less financially viable, like as good as an option because you're not really getting as much out of it as you used to just based on the like debt that you will come out with. Yeah, it's an interesting topic. And so that really gives you food for thought on what your educational experience should be. Make sure to wrap up today's episode. Any last thoughts, guys? I think we talked about a lot of important stuff today. Thanks for the talk and thanks for being here, Jude. Yeah, and big thanks for having me on the podcast. And thank you listeners for tuning into the episode today. Make sure to be back next week for the last in the series. Until next time, this is Nick, Brady, and Jude signing off.