I believe that both are independent of each other, if not mutually exclusive!
2006-07-11 06:47:43 · 7 answers · asked by The Guru® 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
I disagree with the latter part of your question-- absolutely not mutually exclusive. But to successful at any career, you probably don't need to be successful academically.
I'm thinking of computers and computer programming in particular. I've taught fifth graders who can design web pages, and high schoolers who can pretty much do anything on a computer. So they may get lucky and fall into something without ever setting foot in college.
College, though, the liberal arts especially, teaches you fundamentals that serves you the rest of your life-- ways of looking at things and thinking critically in ways you woulnd't without formal instruction.
But, yeah, I'm with you-- there are several careers where experience weighs more than academic ability.
2006-07-11 07:00:57 · answer #1 · answered by ishotvoltron 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of the answers are approaching this answer from an education/employer perspective. However, there are many successful entrepreneurs in the US who don't have any formal education and have built empires. These are definitely independent concepts but I would not go as far as to suggest that they are mutually exclusive.
2006-07-15 01:37:55 · answer #2 · answered by Veronica 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe that learning and paying attention and asking quesitons are more important than sucess in school, cause even if you fail then you are still learning something! Also, success in career does not always mean that you are good at your job! If you like your job then that is better then being in a job that you don't like even though it pays well. Being sucessful is in either is a good thing, but you have to ask yourself why you were!? Then again if you suck at your job how will you pay your bills. I say screw success just live and let live....be yourself and if success comes your way then great! basically both are great, but neither are the most important...both are equally good.
2006-07-11 06:56:26 · answer #3 · answered by darkmatter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If succes equals high grades and money, then Integrity and Work Ethic are more the issue rather than "success." You can be poor and have bad grades without compromising integrity. Ahundred years from now on your deathbed you will not look back and say "I wish I would have studied harder for that A+" or "I wish I would have worked that extra weekend to get that bonus." You will regret the unrecoverable sacrifices of family and integrity, however.
2006-07-11 06:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by Mingxia M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you can't be a total moron but I believe that it takes book smarts and also street smarts to get anywhere. Let's face it, most high paying jobs will not let you in unless you have some type of degree so you do need some success in academics.
2006-07-11 06:51:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
More imp would be, what is correlation between the two? Its not that every grad from HBS/MIT/IIT is a smart A$s. And not that every uneducated man is a dumb A$s. Time and again, we have some one who made it really big without much formal education, one classic example, Dhirubai Ambani of Reliance Limited.
2006-07-11 15:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most potential employers will not look at your grades from college when they are considering you for hire. However, they are mostly just concerned with the fact that you have a degree, which I guess in order for you to obtain, you'd need relatively good to passing grades. In fact, many employers don't really care what you have your degree in, just as long as you have one.
2006-07-11 06:52:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋