tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045904440771768871.post4533095438929345997..comments2023-07-07T02:14:05.552-07:00Comments on Carma's Window: Do Not ASS-U-ME You Need CollegeCarma Dutrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13552905128829205617noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045904440771768871.post-83808217724989376002007-11-15T20:07:00.000-08:002007-11-15T20:07:00.000-08:00You're right Jim, Belief is Not Enough. Without fa...You're right Jim, Belief is Not Enough. Without faith, what we believe does not have a chance.<BR/><BR/>I also heard that some employers don't care what kind of degree you have. They only care that you finished what you started and know that you can learn.<BR/><BR/>I enjoy your comments.Carma Dutrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552905128829205617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2045904440771768871.post-12030460438554529712007-11-15T04:41:00.000-08:002007-11-15T04:41:00.000-08:00Learning is not worth what it once was. I've seen ...Learning is not worth what it once was. I've seen people with degrees pushing filing trolleys around because they couldn't find a better job. I had a friend once who got a degree in electrical and electronic engineering and he told me that he never used anything he learned in those years at uni. "A degree, Jimmy," he said to me, "simply proves you have the <I>capacity</I> to learn. It's like an IQ. Having an IQ doesn't mean you're automatically clever, you simply have the <I>potential</I> to be clever." Tom was a member of MENSA so he was clever and the last I saw of him he was living in a house with three dirty great pine trees in his back yard.<BR/><BR/>I, on the other hand, didn't go to university and I now find myself at forty-eight with four novels most of which haven't been read by anyone bar my wife and daughter. This is not because I didn't think they're any good. It's not because I didn't believe in myself. <B>Belief is not enough</B>. It needs to be followed by an act of faith. As the bible puts it: faith without works is dead.<BR/><BR/>I allowed so many other things to get in the road of trying to do anything with them that I got used to writing a novel and sticking in the drawer afterward. <BR/><BR/>The nice thing about novels, well these ones anyway, is that they don't go off. Most writers trying to make a name for themselves have one book to their name and the big question is, can they pull it off again? At least I have no doubts on that score.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.com