Working Wounded Blog: Jobs Without Degrees

 

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Don't get me wrong, I don't have a beef with college. I just believe that the life experiences and minds of many who have not graced the hallowed halls of academia are a terrible thing to waste. So enjoy your degree. Just don't look down on people who don't have one. Heck, you just might be able to learn something from them.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Few great men could pass personnel." -- Paul Goodman

BOOK EXCERPT OF THE WEEK

From "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook" (Currency, 1994):

Do You Need a Degree to Succeed? Watch Video

"The physicist David Bohm (one of the main contributors to the theory of dialogue) points out that the Western word 'measure' and the Sanskrit 'maya' appear to derive from the same origins. Yet, in the West, the concept of measure has come to mean 'comparison to some fixed external unit' while maya means 'illusion.'"

Blog Ballot Results

Here are the results from a recent Working Wounded Blog/ABCNews.com online ballot:

How much will the talent and labor shortage impact work?

   A huge impact, 62.8 percent

   A minor impact, 25.6 percent

   No impact whatsoever, 11.6 percent

Bob Rosner is a best-selling author, an internationally syndicated columnist, popular speaker, and a recent addition to the community of bloggers. He welcomes your comments at bob@workingwounded.com.

This work is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.