Ivy League Education, Lousy Career Prospects - Nothing New

That giant of a thought leader who also created practical inventions - Benjamin Franklin - didn't go to Harvard. Oh, how he wanted to. The kid's signature in the community was that from a very young age he was always reading. Few could recall when he wasn't reading. The buzz was that he taught himself. 

But, as Kevin Hayes documents in the 2025 biography of Franklin "Undaunted Mind," that Harvard dream wasn't going to happen because at the time Harvard graduates had a lousy earning capacity. Franklin's father balked at spending the tuition in something that had such a financially disappointing outcome. 

So, there's nothing new about a disconnect between an elite academic education and financial success.

Also, there's nothing new about those who didn't receive a sophisticated academic education and made it big. They include founder of Ford Motor Henry Ford, Ingvar Kamprad who started up IKEA and star actor Quentin Tarantino. 

Meantime the "war on college" intensifies. 

Parents who I coach have shifted offspring questions from what choice of the college to the possibility of out-of-the-gate training for a trade. Yes, start right in high school. 

However, there still exists the cultural divide between college-educated and not-college-educated. The difference usually is immediately obvious in speech patterns. Faulty grammar will give it right away.

Thrown off your game, maybe the first time since you started working? You made all the right moves and then the world moved in another direction.

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