The Era of the Degree

This era wasn’t a degree of ownership, value, or appreciation of skill but rather irrational compliance and status of fame and notoriety that was predicated on who you knew and who knew them. What you knew was only measured if you went to the appropriate school and had the “right” degree while all individual aspirations were left in primary education based on a system indoctrinating children with a test-first mentality. Finding out who a person was inside was of no concern to the public unless it fits within public consumption or could be viewed by its one eye which will always lack peripheral vision.

The irony that society has yet to embrace is that yet another dropout (i.e. me) is funding, finding, and figuring out new and innovative ways to give high-level college graduates a way into corporate America to not just succeed but simply survive, especially during the era of our current endemic.

For me, it’s never been about thinking outside of the box but rather making sure my box has big enough dimensions to be packaged and shipped comfortably without anything breaking including my ego. The idea for me is not simply breaking ego but doing so to make space for empathy and thus understanding. In my view, doing so is essential to attain the appropriate dimensions for one’s box with enough space left for learning, development, and restructuring (if needed) in order for one’s box to arrive safely at the end of one’s human race. This is the race I choose to focus on as this race is the one we should all aspire to complete, not win. I leave my competitive spirit to beating myself in all my issues that come along with being blessed with a clear vision as well as intrinsic foresight.