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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The goal isn't a college name, the goal is a degree and profession you love. We got it. The latin kids will get a degree and a profession they love if they work hard at those colleges.

I actually find this sort of cute and charming. Love your throwback advice! This might have been true in the 50s, but it is not good advice in today's world.[/quote]

Even today's typically lower-paid professions that its professionals "love" -- PhD scientific research, journalism, creative writing, math professor -- absolutely require [b]top[/b] university educations to get actual jobs.

Well, I suppose the  local features writer for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal need not have attended Columbia School of Journalism (or Northwestern, or Michigan, etc) to land that job she loves.  Okay, now that I think about it, I see PP's point.    Renting a 1-bedroom apartment in Lubbock, Texas and working as a features writer for the 32,000-circulation Avlanche-Journal [u]could [/u]be done with a degree from West Texas A&M.  The tiny-market journalist [u]could[/u] indeed "love" that job.    The fact that few people reading DCUM or living in Washington DC might want that sort of career is immaterial as to whether the employee in question

1. worked hard at West Texas A& M
2.  earned a degree from there
3.  entered a profession related to that degree

1st PP is correct in her way.[/quote]

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