Sheet's Personal Coaching Program

[TJGirl]

if you don't know what it means to earn a degree, you really shouldn't comment on it. you only make yourself sound ignorant.

cecsix,
I'm not sure if your reply is to me or the original poster who compared college to a coaching program, but you basically made the same point I did in a different way, so I hope it was not me you were replying to and calling ignorant.

Basically, the conclusion is:
College degree + knowledge is better than just the same knowledge learned elsewhere (because the degree has meaning beyond the knowledge learned).
Coaching course "graduation" + knowledge is NOT better than just the same knowledge learned elsewhere (because the course graduation has no meaning in and of itself).

So they are not comparable, as the poster I replied to tried to do.

[Bluemoon06]

You both are right.  College is a waste of time and it is not.  I graduated with a Bachelors Degree in mechanical engineering.  I have never designed a uniformed shaft or derived a first law of thermodynamics for a closed system since I got out of school.  I did learn how to solve problems which is the basic concept behind the self help business books you can buy of the shelf.  What it does do for you is you learn how to matriculate through a system that is full of balances, gates, & blocks and successfully reach your goal.  You also learn how to deal with people that are not like the ones you grow up with.  Best of all, it gives you contacts with the people that are going to run the world one day, and the kids of the ones that are running the world today.  I got my MBA and I don’t use the tools that I learned in class.  Most of the functions you learn how to do by hand are done by running reports in SAP, or PeopleSoft.  Anybody that understands which of these reports puts money in your pocket and which don’t can do the analysis without an MBA. What a degree dose is it puts you into a self-selected group.  You are a person that will invest 4 or 5 years making yourself better.  The only people that are better at making it are country people.  That is because they know how to make things work right.

That being said, a degree gets you hired,  I am on this website trying to get out of the employee's world and into the millionare's world.  A millionare doesn't need a degree.

[TJGirl]

You both are right.  College is a waste of time and it is not.

Just to be clear since people obviously aren't reading all of what I wrote, I do NOT think college is a waste of money.  I said that for the EDUCATION ALONE it is not worth the money.  I also stated that the degree IS worth the money, depending on your career field.


For the record, I have 2 degrees and am halfway through a 3rd, so I certainly don't view the overall result as a waste of time or money.

[cecsix]

okay tj, my fault, i misunderstood your post.

please forgive me.  

[TJGirl]

No problem, I should have been more clear with my thoughts

[grace2]

Again thanks for all your comments. Eventhough it got a little off subject . Anyways...I've decide NOT to do the personal coaching. Thanks for the advice.
-grace2
P.S. Thanks Jeff. I'll keep you posted.

[niravmd]

a little off topic, but i have a Masters Degree in Computer Science from a reputed University and i think it was a  waste.
i went to college to prepare for the real world by preparing to get a job and make money. in that respect college didn't meet my expectations.
I think i would have been better off working thse years. but i'll admit it was a blast!!! just not all that useful.

[JeffInCT]

So I guess the value of education is a personal opinion with answers as varied as there are people.

I think the purposes of Grace's post was to inquire as to the value of a specific course as it would apply to her situation.

Can you really give the poster an accurate opinion if you haven't tried the coaching program?  All those naysayers in the opinion poll with only an initial for their last name. ...? I've TALKED to  some of them. The resaon they failed had little to do with the coaching.

You may be successful without Carelton Sheets coaching but no one was asking about that.

I've determined it must be all Grace2's fault for asking the question wrong.

[JeffInCT]

Hey! Did anyone catch my clever reference to the game Monopoly in my previous post?  (7th posting from the top.)

Just checking.........

Jeff

[BoboTheKing]

The initial post asked about spending $3000 for personal coaching, not about the course.