Weighing the results
If you were to ask me what did I study at university I would have to pause and construct an answer that made sense. My actual time at university did not. In keeping with the traditions school I signed on for a full five years of study. In that time I was under the control of probably five different faculties. Not because I went from one to another on purpose but because I was driven to continue learning. In academic study you can find yourself in a corner with nothing in front of you except a wall. I went there over and over again. For those of you who need to know I moved from music to sociology to psychology to education with a year of general study in there somewheres. I managed to avoid the sciences while finding employment in the sciences. Not sure how that happened. What I did learn is that a lot of learning requires that you be motivated. Self-motivated. Ready to pull a book off the university stacks that would take you in a different direction from what you had been considering. And in retrospect it worked out wonderfully. My two degrees our in boxes downstairs. You do not tend to take them out and re-examine them for hidden gold or silver. They were marks in the sand and the sand does shift. Based on my example my own children avoided the near occasions of sin as they used to say. I figured they would have enjoyed the game but the debt at the end would have seemed like a faustian agreement. Again looking back the debt was very mild when compared to the results. I was able to live a great life with very little money. Since that is what we all seem to want I think I won my bet. The reason I ended up here today is because I watched someone else try to explain the benefits of study in disciplines you had not already considered. My life in a nutshell. And if someone asked me would I do it all again I think I would.
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