Our Economic Savior: Dropouts

From a young age students are filled with the ideas that the only road to success is by going to college. Though it is true that having a college degree can land you in a very high earning position working for some big wig corporation, many of the college dropouts are the people who will lift our economy out of recession. Dropouts are the ones to create the small businesses that account for the new jobs America so desperately needs. According to an article recently published in the New York Times by Michael Ellsberg, "people who create jobs aren’t traditional professionals, but start-up entrepreneurs."
An entrepreneur is defined in Merriam-Webster dictionary as, "one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise." Traditional education teaches the exact opposite skills that are needed to be a successful entrepreneur. Many colleges and universities that are often regarded as some of the most top notch schools in the nation offer classes that teach the negatives of sales (which is a highly needed skill as an entrepreneur.) Other skills, including networking and branding yourself are not part of curriculums in many schools. "I knew I had to keep networking, shaking hands and sharing my story at trade shows," says ore-based chip designer Jeri Ellsworth. Entrepreneurs must learn these types of skills quickly to be successful, and many do.
An entrepreneur is a go getter; they spit directly in fear's face and laugh at the very sight of failure. College dropouts make such great entrepreneurs because they do not stop after failure and go back to what they know because all they know currently is failure! A college dropout is deemed a failure once they dropout in the first place. These people are often very stubborn, strong minded, and independent; and when some doubts them they will become determined to prove them wrong.
They also have nothing to go back to if they fail. Someone who has a degree who tries becoming an entrepreneur, if they fail, they assume they have something to fall back on, another career field to return too. College dropouts have nothing. They pour their hearts and souls into their business until they have nothing left to give of them. Some of the most successful people in American history were college dropouts. Mark Zuckerburg, Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, and Bill Gates were all college dropouts. All of these people are great examples of what college dropouts do to help our economy. Never doubt a college dropout; they could one day be your boss!