He Manages Billions WITHOUT A College Degree?! | David Bahnsen #431 | The Way I Heard It

Education? When I was in college I asked my grandpa if he ever felt slighted by never going to high school. He replied, “I learned how to read write and cipher in grade school enough for me to continue my education throughout my life.” He was worth 3 million when he passed away.

I love the intro to this video! What they teach in college is so absolutely untethered to reality, so conceptual, so impractical, that I'd credit David's success to the fact that he skipped that completely and went his own way. Nice to see another successful person sharing this truth. I've been inspiring young people to skip college and get marketable skills since 2016. It's a slow transition but it's happening.

I always got criticisized for loving factory jobs. As an artist, everyone thought I would surely become the next Van Gogh lol😅. The truth was, I loved to work a factory job and not be called upon to create, but, at home all my time was for that, and I grew as an artist in my "free" time. I got married, raised 3 sons, and now at 66, I have started my own art LLC. I have always loved work.

I really appreciated this interview. There is dignity in work. I’m 77 and still work part-time as an RN with no plans to stop as long as my health is as good as it is.

I'm 70 and I drive truck for a small grain elevator in Nebraska who employs maybe 20 people most are over 60 years of age. We have 8 trucks, our 2 youngest drivers are 60-62 the rest of us are 70 + with the oldest to soon be 77. There are no young people willing to work. So what's going to happen when all the old farts throw in the towel.

Parent, grandparents, share with your kids and grandkids, reality check, hard work is good for the mind and soul. Don’t avoid it👍

Large corporations are the antithesis of entrepreneurship. Always has been and always will be. A small company will always be able to compete against a large corporation because the small company has the ability to pivot as needed and to adjust to the needs of their client instead of the other way around. If you are a true entrepreneur, you will never be fully happy working for a large corporation. Over the years I have talked to several large corporations that wanted to create an entrepreneurial spirit within their organization and it normally only took a few minutes to point up to them why that would never happen. To a large corporation, their policies and proceedures mean more than success while to an entrepreneur, success is the yardstick.

You hit the nail on the head Mike, at 41:00 min. Work stopped being meaningful when tasks were divided and segregated from the whole. For me, working at a hotel in Canada's Northwest Territories in the 70s, vs working at a hotel in a large metropolis. Up north, I was connected to everything that happened in every dept, even though my job was 'front desk clerk'. I knew every guest in the full capacity of 100 rooms, I knew their wake up call times, I could predict their needs and set them up for the best experience - facilitating communications between the desk, housekeeping and restaurant. I loved my work! And thank you guys for reminding me why - because I was providing a service to so many other people! Not manning a disconnected desk in an impersonal automated environment...

I worked in the HVAC industry my entire career, eventually becoming a business owner. I had a PHD neighbor in my childhood that I stayed in contact with through adulthood. Visiting with him one day, as an adult, I apologized for my lack of pursuing a college education...but going to work, in the trades, out of highschool. He looked at me and smiled, stating " you have a great job stealing your higher education....and you have been doing it competently, long enough, you have your PHD...."

I like that, “Work is a venue to go do GREAT things”. Yeah, yeah, I’m a boomer.😂