It’s no secret that a college graduate earns good money. A high school graduate or holder of a GED, will earn less. The drop out makes the least. Let me ask you a simple question? Do you want to be paid the same or less? Then do nothing or the same thing you’re doing now. In today’s competitive workplace two factors control whether you’re hired and how much you’re paid.
Education
Yep, just what I said in the first paragraph. There are those who are self taught or self made. Those persons are the exception to the rule. They know how to think and market their product, company, or own ideas. The rest of us put a check in the box marked education. Some education levels or associated skills pay more than others.
Image
There used to be a book titled “Dress For Success!” The man in the dark suit gets more attention then the guy in the blue overalls. The person who looks successful with the manner of a professional and indulges in witty conversation will probably be hired for the bank manager’s job ahead of the leisure suit dressed person with the facial tattoos and chewing gum popping. People like to talk with and buy from people they like or admire. The book’s premise was people believed what they saw. Dress like an executive to be accepted as one! Clothes, language, manners make the lady or gentleman. One does not have to born to the manor in order to appear like it.
Join the small handful of people who
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look like a professional.
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speak like an expert.
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dress like a millionaire.
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function like the person you want to be.
Are you the drop out, the one without a high school diploma? Then put a GED in your pocket. You can’t afford not too. All the tools you need to succeed begin with that GED. Education and an image are lifetime pursuits. You don’t stop learning because you are not in a school. There is no need to hide from an education. Your life’s mission permits you to acquire one. Even obtain dapper 007 Bond’s clothes or martini.
