“I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.” UseShowsJobsUsedCareersStreetsWallDegreesConnectionsAthleteCreditHatedLeagueScoreNo MoneyIvyProfessional AthleteIvy LeagueDartmouthCredit Scores Author:Brian J. White
“I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.” IfsTryingCharacterFeelingsJobsDegreesPaperDrawsIdealsNotesDrawingPlanningComicRoughNails Author:Dave Gibbons
“Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives” JobsSkillsDegreesTranslateBetter LifeBetter Jobs Author:Andreas Schleicher
“With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.” JobsWishDegreesWasteEnvironmentalBiologyChemicalsWarfareTestedLabsSewageChemical Warfare Author:Dustin Lynch
“The 21st century looks different. It's been very disruptive. It has created a lot of insecurity. We have to adjust to that, because the 21st century has real promise. Now, the higher-paying jobs of this new century are fantastic. The problem is, you have to have some level of higher education, maybe not a four-year degree, but some level of higher education, to get those jobs.” YearsLooksDifferentRealProblemJobsLevelsFourCenturyHigherPromiseDegreesFantasticInsecurityFour Years21st CenturyHigher EducationDisruptive Author:Marco Rubio
“I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree. I suppose there is a juxtaposition involved in that because you do have to be a civil servant but you're doing a tremendously exciting job, or potentially an exciting job, or a glamourous job.” IdeasJobsFantasyInvolvedDegreesExcitingBoringServantJuxtapositionCivil Servants Author:Guy Ritchie
“All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.” ShouldFactsJobsWeekDegreesTrainingTiedRequirementsUnemploymentAssociatesCompensationJob Training Author:Newt Gingrich