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Udacity had free courses, I think there are still some. But it is nowhere near what education cost in the US.
The only jobs that require "school participation" are the one the necessitate a government licence. So a big part of the price is the licence.
The only exception I am making are the job that require laboratory and rare furnitures a single individual can't buy.
For all intellectual jobs that don't require dirty hands, if you want real education and not just the license, then I stay on my position : schooling is not the best solution.
You'll be smarter and richer by reading everything you can about the subject at home, and reaching the community around the domain.
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Nicolas Dorier wrote: For all intellectual jobs that don't require dirty hands, if you want real education and not just the license, then I stay on my position : schooling is not the best solution.
I definitely concur!
I wish I'd known that I could drop out of high school and take the GDE (or whatever it's called) - I would have spent the time learning real things not wasting it. I've heard it's much harder now to get your GDE, they (the gov't) really wants to make sure it fully infects your brain.
Marc
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doctor, lawyer, psychiatrist, vet? You mean lawyers and psychiatrists actually have know sh*t? 
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Hi Marc! Good to see you here.
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Education. Life experiences. And in the spirit of this not being the SB... And doing _______, __________, ___________, and don't forget ______________ with girls.
Jeremy Falcon
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Despite some stock market indiscretions in the 90s, I maintain that wisely investing one's money in the stock market is among the best uses of it. By wisely, I mean diversification and reducing risk by investing in specific sectors vs. specific companies or "hot tips".
/ravi
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My little daughter. It's not rational, just a primeval instinct. 
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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And what are you going to say when someone offers to invest?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That the only form of investing is buy-out...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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+5 I have a little girl as well... and a shotgun and a swamp conveniently located 100 yards from my back door. Any investors best not be thinking of a "hostile take over" 
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A day out with a loved one, be that an amusement park, museum, sight-seeing, you name it 
Things come and go, but memories are forever (unless you get some brain damage or disease, but at that point everything else might be pretty worthless too).
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I like the idea! 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Sander Rossel wrote: memories are forever
Just bought a new SSD, thanks for the suggestion!
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Sander Rossel wrote: be that an amusement park, museum, sight-seeing, you name it
Um, HoloLens?
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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I'll save my money for a holodeck
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Every time I run down to Amsterdam, I run into English or American "gentlemen" who, upon seeing that I'm a native English speaker, seem happy to inform me what they believe the best things to spend money on are, and ask me where to find them.
My customary response is not KSS, so I shan't post it here.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Travelling.
Go meet other places, other cultures, other experiences. You have only one life to live, so make the most out of it, either alone or with someone else.
I just wish I had more time and money to do it more often. My fingernails even grow when I do it
PS: Let's not go religious about the "one life to live" part.
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Well said, Fabio.
Also
“I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted” (or some variation which suits you).
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agolddog wrote: “I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted”
Yes!
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Good Books are my answer.
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Things that last and always give you joy. A nice pair of leather shoes, a fine watch, a good dog, professional cutlery, etc. If it lasts a decade or more, it's worth buying the best that you can afford.
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The reason can be found in a story of The Psychology of optimal experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
"The Shuswap region was and is considered by the Indian people to be a rich place: rich in salmon and game, rich in below-ground food resources such as tubers and roots—a plentiful land.
In this region, the people would live in permanent village sites and exploit the environs for needed resources.
They had elaborate technologies for very effectively using the resources of the environment, and perceived their lives as being good and rich.
Yet, the elders said, at times the world became too predictable and the challenge began to go out of life.
Without challenge, life had no meaning.
So the elders, in their wisdom, would decide that the entire village should move, those moves occurring every 25 to 30 years.
The entire population would move to a different part of the Shuswap land and there, they found challenge.
There were new streams to figure out, new game trails to learn, new areas where the balsamroot would be plentiful.
Now life would regain its meaning and be worth living. Everyone would feel rejuvenated and healthy. Incidentally, it also allowed exploited resources in one area to recover after years of harvesting."
If you wonder about what to do of your money, I guess you are starting to feel like those indians. 
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