| Schools are now getting ready to gear up for the last | | | | education. |
| semester before their summer break. As many of us | | | | My challenge to you in this article is to do the following: |
| are asking what our financial future look like, many | | | | young people - first I urge you to consider never |
| students who are about to graduate are finding | | | | abandoning your high school education. Secondly, begin |
| themselves wondering what they will have to do to | | | | looking at your dreams and relative career choices |
| make it work in their new future. | | | | and start making plans now as to what it will take to |
| While I cannot answer all of the questions as to how | | | | get there, and do not settle for anything less. To those |
| we will all make it, there is one thing I do believe I can | | | | of us who are older - consider going back and getting |
| answer with confidence. If there were ever a time | | | | more education to help you in the current job/career |
| when it was important for people to have their | | | | environment. |
| education in tact as well as a higher education in the | | | | Now is not the time to slack off from education, as it |
| making, that time would be now. | | | | will be what gets you ahead in the game and puts you |
| As a teacher I have watched the workforce go from | | | | in a category where you can continue to learn and |
| advertising that a high school diploma is helpful, or even | | | | better yourself - so that you and your assets are |
| to the point of stating that it is not necessary because | | | | considered valuable at all times. |
| training is available, to now stating that a minimum of a | | | | The other option is to learn a trade that is something |
| high school diploma is required but in most cases not | | | | people will never quit doing no matter how hard the |
| good enough. | | | | times get. |
| Recently I visited with many people who have been | | | | Even if you are already working and have not finished |
| laid off from their jobs and are now unsure of what | | | | your education, now is the time to rethink what you |
| they will do because they really do not have a 'career'. | | | | can do now so that you will always have a job |
| These include those who have both graduated from | | | | without living in fear of losing it. |
| high school and gone straight to work and those who | | | | Times today are not easy, many things could happen, |
| had good intentions but started making good money | | | | and we should be the ones looking out for ourselves. |
| and decided it was not worth it to pursue a higher | | | | |