Billionaire says: "Why not become a plumber instead of going to college?"

[RobinA]

122. I Happen

to completely agree with this billionaire, and I've been saying this for years. Why does everybody think they have to be a hedge fund manager? Some people are not made to be hedge fund managers, and even some who are might actually be happier doing something useful. My own plumber retired to his house in the mountains. Which he can afford in part because he made decent money as a plumber and in part because he doesn't have to pay someone else an arm and a leg to maintain it.

I had a job once working with families, many of them single mother homes. I had one woman who was going to school to be an electrician. Most of the women I workerd with wanted to go to the community college to get a degree in child care. Child care, which pays less than nothing. I hope this electrician lady made it, because I felt she had a good idea learning a trade. She was definitely thinking outside the box.