Are you suffering with Mad How Disease?

The “Unschooler Experiment” has a blog post about how to make money from unusual passions that one would not normally consider career paths.  You can read it here - http://www.unschooler.com/2011/12/making-money-from-a-career-path-that-doesn%E2%80%99t-pay/

“Yeah. So the trick is, do something that you love, and then figure out who has already learned to get paid to do that. Because a lot of people suffer from what I call Mad How Disease.  So you really want to be a juggler? Then find people who are making their living as a juggler. Interview those people, read books about them, watch YouTube videos about them, find everything you can about that person. Imitate everything that they’ve done, and pretty soon you’ll be making money as a juggler and you’ll be happy doing something that you love.”

Education, work and skillz

Aurthor Sido has written a great article about the idol of college and the lack of skilled trades workers.

Education, work and skillz

two quotes from his post:

“So why are parents not encouraging our kids to learn a trade of some sort? It is cheaper than college, pays well and is in demand. What is the problem? Are we averse to having our kids work with their hands?”

“Just because someone gets dirty at work and wears jeans instead of khakis doesn’t mean they are a failure. Maybe we should be less eager to have our kids get expensive sheepskin status symbols and more eager to have them learn marketable skills? Instead of leaving school and entering adulthood with a six figure debt load, aren’t many of kids better off with no debt and a marketable skill? ”

http://thesidos.blogspot.com/2011/12/education-work-and-skillz.html