Women are told to go to college because a college degree is essential to a higher paying job and career success. We are told that people with college degrees will earn significantly more than people without.
So, we go to college. We get the degree. We acquire debt. We get a job – a low level job working alongside people who don’t have degrees.
Where did we go wrong?
For many women we make the mistake of getting a degree that doesn’t give us any employable skills. We ignore the fact that employers hire people with skills, people who can do things and people who can accomplish things. And our paycheck depends on the value of our skills and accomplishments.
So a degree that doesn’t give you employable skills won’t translate into a high paying job no matter how prestigious a university it comes from.
As women we also have to recognize that knowledge on a subject isn’t good enough either. In the workplace no one cares that you had a 4.0 GPA. In the workplace your employer cares that you can apply that knowledge to varying situations and achieve their objective.
Closing the wage gap will require more than women getting college degrees. It will require women going into the workplace with the same employable skills as men and accomplishing as much as men.
So watch this video, and find out who in the end, has the greatest potential to become a self-made multi-millionaire.
