Why Are So Many Agents Lazy?

[Josh]

Depends what the degree is in. A metallurgical engineer has a greater chance of getting a job than a philosophy major fresh out of school.

We're talking about on the average. When I went to college I vividly remember a table-tent showing how much more money I'd make with a college degree than just a high school diploma. I dropped out after my first year and make more than my wife does with a masters and a good paying job. There are exceptions, but unless you're getting a degree in something very specific and marketable it's a pretty big gamble.

 

[KRobby]

We have the fattest, laziest, dumbest, most entitled, weakest people on earth.

Do you even lift?

#barbells&doorbells

 

[xrac]

We're talking about on the average. When I went to college I vividly remember a table-tent showing how much more money I'd make with a college degree than just a high school diploma. I dropped out after my first year and make more than my wife does with a masters and a good paying job. There are exceptions, but unless you're getting a degree in something very specific and marketable it's a pretty big gamble.

I have became convinced that probably for as much as 50% of the people in college that a college education is a poor financial investment. My son did not go to college, had no student loans, did a plumbing apprenticeship, and makes as much money or more than his master degree school teacher wife. I know plenty of college graduates working at jobs like Jimmy Johns or Arbys.

 

[Norwayguy]

Just this past weekend I was at a friends house and his little brother who is 28 said he pays someone to mow his lawn and clean his house because he didn't spend 4 years in college to do that type of work

Hey I pay those housekeepers that clean in the nude what's wrong with that.

 

[VolAgent]

I have became convinced that probably for as much as 50% of the people in college that a college education is a poor financial investment. My son did not go to college, had no student loans, did a plumbing apprenticeship, and make as much money or more than his master degree school teacher wife. I know plenty of college graduates working at jobs like Jimmy Johns or Arbys.

Lots of blame on this one. Statistics show that college grads on average earn more than high school grads. So everyone started pushing people to go to college. Now, with a surplus of college grads, employers are using a college degree as a sorting tool. Jobs that have a skill set that really don't require a college degree suddenly do, simply because employers can require it.

 

[Life4me]

Statiscally a college grad can earn on averarge a million more over their life time that someone with hs diploma. Earning my degree was on the of proudest achievements of my life.

 

[kgmom219]

This thread is getting a little personal for me...I pay someone to cut my lawn and I have a house keeper...I'd rather spend the time with my kids and family...or drinking. Nothing wrong with that, if you've got the discretionary income to do so.

I will admit though, I am one lazy SOB. So thanks, JG, for starting a thread and making me feel bad...what are friends for right!

While I am admittedly lazy, I'm am highly efficient and goal oriented. Once I hit my goals, all bets are off.

I'm not lazy, but my time is much better spent selling. I pay someone to clean my house and mow my lawn. And those were specific goals I set for myself after "starving" for a few years to get this thing off the ground.

Don't sweat it...you've earned it!

 

[VolAgent]

I'm not lazy, but my time is much better spent selling. I pay someone to clean my house and mow my lawn. And those were specific goals I set for myself after "starving" for a few years to get this thing off the ground.

Don't sweat it...you've earned it!

When I hear someone complaining about another person hiring out service work, I usually find it is just envy speaking. If you are in a position you have the disposable income to pay someone else to do all that grunt work for you? More power to you.

I seriously doubt there is a successful business owner or executive that does yard work, unless it is just something they enjoy.

 

[Thad.Sipple]

Do you even lift? #barbells&doorbells

Ah cute, do you guys even sell FE?

One day we will all learnt how to lift and sell

 

[Josh]

I seriously doubt there is a successful business owner or executive that does yard work, unless it is just something they enjoy.

Probably also depends on the size of the yard. In my area you can easily spend $500k and literally not even have a yard. I'm hoping to buy another house in the fall with a yard big enough for me to have an excuse to ride a lawn tractor around in. At my house in NY I can "mow" the front and back with a weed eater in 15 minutes.