Why do people prefer business over degree?

[laijsica]

Why do so many people prefer starting a business over getting a degree?
Because a successful business can bring much higher income, while a job after a degree usually has a fixed salary. A degree takes about 4 years and costs a lot. A business can start with small capital and might grow 4 times in those same 4 years. Plus, many graduates still struggle to find good jobs.

•Do you think a degree is important to run a business, or can skills and experience replace it?
•What would you choose: start a small business without a degree, or get a degree first and then start a business?

Not everyone prefers business over degree. Those who prefer business probably have weak family financial capacity. Or some may have a family business from childhood where they gain experience and earn money. Those guys prefer business over degree.

In my country, many middle class families have working householders who have financial capacity and encourage their children to pursue degree. Many boys from poor communities also earn money by doing part-time jobs and earn degree and make themselves skilled. By pursuing degree, one can expect good jobs or can run business well by applying various business strategies.

[The Cryptovator]

I am not against taking a degree if you can afford it. Then rather than start a job, it’s always better to focus on a business. A degree is necessary, although not mandatory; the smarter you become, the smarter business you can do as well. But unfortunately everyone can’t think the same way; they usually start a job, and from there some people start a business later.

We also need some skill besides knowledge. You can be educated by getting a degree, but you also need to develop skills. It would be either joining a job or starting a small business and then growing slowly. Everything can’t happen so fast at all; need patience.

[püsür]

People prefer business over degree because there are a lot of graduates that has failed to secure a job in the area of their specialty after acquiring a degree, which have make some of them to regret why they didn't use the money they used in acquiring a degree to start up a business instead. If there's no enough job to accommodate more graduates people might be discourage to even acquire a degree in the future because they can't spend four or five years in the university and they can't use what they studied to pay their bills and put food on their table.

The growth of many people succeeding without using their degree is really mind blowing. The thing is if you look at it people are now seeing degree as a risk investment with a very low guarantee return. The thing is when you put in the years you’ve invested in school and at the end it can’t even get you a middle life. But in business when you’ve invest these much time, you will see at the end you will have a business that yours.

These days you will look at your community and you will see graduates Turing to bus drivers, POS owners, and so much more, jobs that don’t even require their degree. So today I will say degree don’t guarantee you a job and bills need to be paid.

So maybe we are now getting in a world where degree are no longer seen as the end goal. These days a lot people are now combining educational knowledge and hustle to meet ends needs.

People don’t just set up businesses to make money. They are forced to do so because they haven’t been able to find a good job despite their education. But they set up businesses rather than attend poor-quality schools and struggle to find work, or end up unhappy in a job that pays very little. Of course, almost everyone would prefer to study, reach senior positions and earn high salaries, but this is by no means easy. Instead, they find it easier to set up a business or do manual labour rather than face those difficulties. Furthermore, they tend to prefer businesses that are riskier but offer higher returns, rather than a steady, low-to-medium-level salary.

[Taricoins]

Just to chip, I don't think we can set aside degree, it doesn't mean you went to school to get a degree, you won't make it in business. Aside from professional courses where you have to work with a fixed salary range, there are some economic and business courses you can get a degree on that can boost your overall thinking and knowledge of the area of business you won't to start. Some of this big business men went to school and studied for there degree in business and overall they applied that knowledge to their business and saw the result.