<p>Hello! </p>
<p>I was wondering:
Would you rather graduate from a prestigious university such as Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, or Yale, etc. but have a mediocre job with ok pay</p>
<p>or would you rather graduate from an ok, eh kind of university without much prestige but have a prestigious and respected job like Doctor/Surgeon, etc. with great pay. </p>
<p>Also, which is considered more respectable by society? Prestigious university vs. Prestigious Occupation</p>
<p>prestigious occupation. You obviously did something wrong if you don’t have a good job, doesn’t matter where you went. </p>
<p>Prestigious university can also lees to prestigious occupation and visa versa.</p>
<p>Personally, being decades older than you, I can tell you that prestige often becomes less desirable as the years go by. When you have to work 5 days or more a week, 8-10 hours a day, year after year after year, with only 2 weeks of vacation a year … if you don’t love what you are doing, you will be miserable. So… if you can land what you consider a “prestigous” occupation and you love it, yeah!!! That being said, very rarely once you are 5 years out of college do people ask where you went to college…</p>
<p>OK, you have to learn that the real world isn’t high school. Adults don’t respect other people because their job or school is prestigious. They respect them for their character, deeds, being dependable and good at what they do, being honest and doing good for the world/society/less fortunate.</p>
<p>There are people in “prestigious” jobs who I feel sorry for and people from prestigious schools who I don’t respect.</p>
<p>You can have a mediocre job in a prestigious profession. You can have a great job in an ordinary occupation.</p>
<p>People who are worth emulating don’t have to constantly take other people’s temperatures. </p>
<p>Happiness trumps prestige. The older you get the more your realize this.</p>
<p>Prestige doesn’t pay the rent, the groceries, the iphone unlimited data plan. And once you’re working a while, no one gives a rat’s patootie where you got your degree.</p>
<p>I respect my children’s teachers more than most doctors and all lawyers.</p>
<p>I would rather graduate from Harvard and be a garbage man, than be President after attending Yale.</p>
<p>You are asking yourself the wrong question: Would you rather attend a prestigious university incurring a large amount of debt or a less prestigious one, such as your state university, ending up with no debt? I pick the lessor amount of debt. In the long run, the university that you attend will be irrelevant to your overall life time success and admission to professional/graduate school. I have found that the longer you are finished with school, the less the value of the school’s name will be toward your career.</p>