Work and Career Do Not Favor the Entrepreneurial Spirit

While I was growing up, I was often told to -"get an education and get a job." No one in my family ever told me to -"get an education and make money." It appeared to me then that education and employment go hand in hand. It was as if one can not be without the other. While I was going through the prospectus in preparation for college, I noticed that the courses were mostly designed for employment; banking and finance, for graduates to start off as tellers; accounting, for graduates to work as bookkeepers; nursing for graduates to work in hospitals. There were of course courses designed for private practice like law and medicine. But, at the time, my family could not afford them. So I ended up taking Liberal Arts.

Lest my thoughts are taken out of context, may I say now that I am not against work. We all have to work to earn a living - whether for our own selves or for others. My point is, our cultural orientation is heavily biased in favor of "being educated in order to find employment." Meaning that, in a strict sense, our education is not for our sole benefit but -in a larger sense- for the employers who will hire us. So, many of the graduates end up working to make others rich and not to make profit for their own selves. There should have been more courses designed to teach students how to start their own business. You know, like an even playing field? Was there fear that if more graduates ended up as entrepreneurs no one would man the industries? I doubt it. Society would have adapted beautifully to the situation. And, there would have been less people that are unemployed.