The Trinituner Entrepreneurship/Self Employed/ Side Hustle Thread

[Redman]

Education is important if you apply it.

Work ethic gives you the best opportunity to be successful-success is hard work

I would advise anybody -get qualified AND work your ass off.
Its easier with both-harder with 1.
But at no point is it easy.

And if allyuh think it hard now-wait a couple years.

I dont have a degree

I regret it every day.

Later

[UML]

its all about who know u.....cause if u have a degree and no experience...dey wah experience....if u have experience and no degree...dey wah degree

allyuh doh do no damn degree...degree is shiit...waste of time and money!!!

[Rory Phoulorie]

Getting a "degree" and getting an internationally accredited degree are two completely different things.

Some people do not even find out if the degree programme they are pursuing is internationally accredited.

[brams112]

Oh gosh how much times this topic get beat out in diffrent forms?education is just the first step in getting into your field, for experience you have to start at the bottom and work your way up,not stand on top with a piece of paper and say you reach.

[Bizzare]

conclusion: a degree may not be needed, but get one!

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[Daran]

Actually, after more consideration of this topic, a degree in any field is worthless unless you have a passion for that field.

Too many people doing degrees for status and not actually absorbing any relevant information for that said degree.

This results in doctors who dont give a sh*t, engineers who don't put thought into their designs (guilty of that at times).

Not to seem sexist, but it's mostly women are guilty of this. Most lack the passion for their chosen career and pretty much look for easiest type of job after graduating. Yet, they keep doing MSc, CAPM, and all kinda abbreviations just to look good.

Imagine how hard it is for me to promote some of these 20 something engineers. That is why I hate to hire females. I have one guy, lower second class honors in Civil Eng......guy loves his work and puts 110% effort into his work. Hired a female with upper second class, Msc, CAPM etc.....but the b*tch can't do anything on her own. You can just see the lack of thought she portrays in this field. However, she is a whiz at Graphic Design.....natural photoshop/illustrator talent.


In T&T too much people degrees for status and not choosing something that actually interests them.

Wish UWI had a screening process where they accessed a persons interest before admitting them.

Half of MedSci would never get in......and the places would go to some of much more deserved Nat Sci students who actually have an interest in that field, but couldn't cram as good.

[Sky]

Actually, after more consideration of this topic, a degree in any field is worthless unless you have a passion for that field.

Too many people doing degrees for status and not actually absorbing any relevant information for that said degree.

This results in doctors who dont give a sh*t, engineers who don't put thought into their designs (guilty of that at times).

Not to seem sexist, but it's mostly women are guilty of this. Most lack the passion for their chosen career and pretty much look for easiest type of job after graduating. Yet, they keep doing MSc, CAPM, and all kinda abbreviations just to look good.

Imagine how hard it is for me to promote some of these 20 something engineers. That is why I hate to hire females. I have one guy, lower second class honors in Civil Eng......guy loves his work and puts 110% effort into his work. Hired a female with upper second class, Msc, CAPM etc.....but the b*tch can't do anything on her own. You can just see the lack of thought she portrays in this field. However, she is a whiz at Graphic Design.....natural photoshop/illustrator talent.


In T&T too much people degrees for status and not choosing something that actually interests them.

Wish UWI had a screening process where they accessed a persons interest before admitting them.

Half of MedSci would never get in......and the places would go to some of much more deserved Nat Sci students who actually have an interest in that field, but couldn't cram as good.

You just proved that despite not having a passion for your job, a degree is useful.

[MG Man]

when I was small I tell mih mudda I want tuh get ah degree..............she hand me ah thermometer and say 'heh, yuh want yuh degree in Celsius or Fahrenheit?'

[matthewmazda]

I only in school to make my parents happy lol.

this. i've probably said this multiple times on here.

but is either you stay in school or you get the @#@# out
my house

[firstchoicett]

Ride out d house ...... We ent want no lazy ppl.

[Bareback]

The thing people have to recognize is that there is no formula. I have many friends who did not have the school smarts to go further than O'Levels and now they are either successful employees in senior positions, successful businessmen or simply employees working without a difinitive direction.

Others have gone the route of post-secondary education, a degree or otherwise, and the results are mixed; some are successful employees, successful businessmen or employess working.

At the end of it all, it comes down to the individual! Having a degree or not having a degree does not determine the drive and tenacity of the individual. Opportunities may or may not come for various reasons, name, degree, who you know, etc...... It is how the individual deals with the opportunities, regardless of its magnitude, is what determines the success of the individual.

Several people have started down the path of a degree in a particular field only to find their passion in another field. Others have found greater passion in their field because of their degree. Others have found their passion else where.

Take for example the oil worker, most of whom did not pursue a degree, who continues to be an employee versus the oil worker who has taken their speciality into a consulting career or even gone out on their own to establish their own company. In each case the drive of the individual determined what direction the person went and their success.

In each case, each person may deem themselves successful in their own right. I don't think that a degree makes you happy or successful, I think it is what you do for yourself that makes you happy and successful. More importantly, to judge an individual for what they have or haven't done is wrong. What someone is doing or has done may be the result of circumstance, their own desire, or maybe they haven't figured it out yet - which applies to more people than we realize.

So is a degree overated, only if you are doing it for the wrong reasons. If you're doing it for fame and fortune then that is the wrong reason!

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

Somehow if you own a Red Band maxi you make close to $1000 a day which is more than what a degree can pay.

Hell even illiterate people working security does sleep whole night and make over $4k a month. I know people with degree making $4500 a month so....

[1UZFE]

^^^this taxi drivers from POS to Sando does make a good raise as well.. Even ppl who sell fish makin ah killing....

[EFFECTIC DESIGNS]

^ Yeah true every tom dick and harry now pulling bull. They realize taxi has money you can make $500 a day with a 4 seater. Thats why everyone buying 7 seater now.

Lot more than what a degree pays you.

[cinco]

when I was small I tell mih mudda I want tuh get ah degree..............she hand me ah thermometer and say 'heh, yuh want yuh degree in Celsius or Fahrenheit?'

den he name yuh Ke(l)vin?

[melamite]

Most persons with degrees are educated beyond their intelligence.

[Stephon.]

Most peopl with degrees forget everything they did for a semester an hr after the exam is done lol.
Ask me what I learned last year in school

[acesinghit]

Look at those individuals who have trade certification in welding and electrical etc...and employed with energy companies also in T&TEC. They make minimum 10k a month up to 30k a month. As was mentioned before, there are degreed people not even making 6k a month. A lot of people employed in the energy sector who are not degreed individuals, make more than those with the degree working in pos wearing shirt and tie. What gives?

New stigma is, those in PPE with hard harts make more money than those with ironed shirts!

[1UZFE]

^^ Ask me wat i learned last night.... Most of the stuff learned in class for most subjects might not be applied to your work at all... Except for electrians and mechs and more hands on type of jobs... things like ACCA is just for the school, the working environment has its own accounts and accounting systems that are a far cry from ACCA...

[zoom rader]

Look at those individuals who have trade certification in welding and electrical etc...and employed with energy companies also in T&TEC. They make minimum 10k a month up to 30k a month. As was mentioned before, there are degreed people not even making 6k a month. A lot of people employed in the energy sector who are not degreed individuals, make more than those with the degree working in pos wearing shirt and tie. What gives?

New stigma is, those in PPE with hard harts make more money than those with ironed shirts!

Dude dont spill the beans out, last thing we want is shirt n tie clowns looking for work in Pt Lisas.
Dude when u walk into a bank with ur greased stained overalls they smirk at you, but when they see your bank balance and salary comming in its a different ball game.

[Stephon.]

So when youre in a bank and doing a transaction and they pull up your account, their face expression changes?

[zoom rader]

So when youre in a bank and doing a transaction and they pull up your account, their face expression changes?

Yes it does, had this happend to me and others like my selfs a few times. Even had some tellers looking for small talk.

[silver]

Getting a degree is useful depending on how it is intended to be used.

[Stephon.]

So when youre in a bank and doing a transaction and they pull up your account, their face expression changes?

Yes it does, had this happend to me and others like my selfs a few times. Even had some tellers looking for small talk.

Small talk is normal, but you know it's against the rules for them to show any sort of "interest" / "disinterest" in your accounts right?

You tried though

[zoom rader]

So when youre in a bank and doing a transaction and they pull up your account, their face expression changes?

Yes it does, had this happend to me and others like my selfs a few times. Even had some tellers looking for small talk.

Small talk is normal, but you know it's against the rules for them to show any sort of "interest" / "disinterest" in your accounts right?

You tried though

Yes but this is trini, and in trini money and power talks

[Stephon.]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz bored of you already

[ZeroOne]

people does still go in the bank???

[ronsin1]

hi guys I have nothing of importance to say

[Bizzare]

hi guys I have nothing of importance to say

you must have a uwi masters degree, no?

[Stephon.]

hi guys I have nothing of importance to say

you must have a uwi masters degree, no?