 If you're in Quebec and you're looking to go to college because you just finished your degree in high school and all that, and you're looking at all the options, you got like Duss and Vanier, a bunch of a bunch of options, and you're looking at one of them, Marineopolis, I'm going to be the one to tell you don't. Before I start this video, I have to say this really really clearly. I don't think your degrees are useless. I don't think they're worthless and I don't necessarily think you're wasting time. Please just watch the video and I'm going to explain all my points as I go. Before I change your perspective on how all this works and show you that college might not be the way for you, I'm going to have to let you know right now that there are industries that do require a degree. You're not going to become a doctor with your $10 Udemy certificate. You're not going to be building bridges, cars, buildings, all those sorts of things with this certificate you got online for free. Most of this industry won't even let you put a foot in the door without a degree. Here's the problem. The legitimate value of college and universities is in professors. You're paying someone who has experience you don't and information you need, and you're hoping that they have the ability to give that to you. Problem is that unless you're going to the top of the line colleges in the world, that's probably not the reality of your specific college. And in Marineopolis, that was a big issue that I kept seeing. Most of the teachers have stagnated in their field and have defaulted to teaching as an end of means. They need to pay bills, they need a feed mouse, and they're human, they don't want to go homeless, so that's what they have to do to make money. And I'm sure there are good teachers out there, and there were in Marineopolis, but when a lot of the teachers are the first ones out the door, the first ones out of all the students, and it's the teacher that leaves the classroom, I think that means a lot. And if you hit up their glass doors or their indeed reviews, you can kind of see that there is a bit of a sort of pattern with teachers working at Marineopolis and that they really don't enjoy their job. The problem for me with college is that it's very theory heavy, and when it comes to practical experience, it's kind of on the table for you to figure out on your own when you're, and it's just, it feels wrong when you're paying so much money to learn everything that they maybe should give you that practical experience as well. But I like to think of it as driving a car, the real learning, the real experience happens when you're sitting in the car, you're putting your foot on the gas, you realize you put a little bit too much or little too little, or you turned a bit too hard, or you didn't do a signal here, you didn't do there, you figure out these things as you're driving the car. And then you go and you do the theory in class and you can apply that to your practical experiences, but theory without any tangible experience is really hard to apply to anything and then it just becomes useless, or at least not very useful. Like I can tell you don't press the brake too hard when you get in the car, but until you get in the car and you slam that pedal and you nearly crash and then you realize okay well that was too hard, then until that moment you won't really know what I'm saying. Of course the idea is there, but the actual practical experience is going to happen when you make that mistake physically pushing that pedal. All this became a really brutal realization for me when I searched out of sciences and I went into business and I sat in my business class and my teacher pretty much revealed that he never actually ran a successful business, because why would he be a teacher? He would be running his successful business. So someone is sitting in front of me that's supposed to have experience, I don't have information I need when they haven't done it themselves. That just seems a bit wrong, right? But yet he was sitting there in class teaching the next generation, very impressionable generation about business, something he has never done successfully. And you know he's being paid, he's being given money, this is his job, to theoretically tell us and teach us about experiences that he has that we don't, and information that he has and that we don't. But yet how can he give us that if he doesn't have it himself? It just seems really weird and wrong and it just didn't make sense. The funny thing that even in those classes they still treated entrepreneurship like a god-given gift, it's not something you earn, it's something that you're just given to because you're very fortunate or something to do with your family or just you know there's always a reason why no one's an entrepreneur. We aren't living in the 1800s anymore and I don't need to sit in front of a classroom and read a PowerPoint that you could just email me, I could just do it on my phone. Today in the present world 80% of the things I do can be done off of my phone, there's certain things I have to be on my computer to do like edit videos and all that, but 80% of my business I could just run off my phone and that's what I do, I'm at the gym sometimes, I just go, I'm answering emails, I'm doing everything I need to do on this phone right here. But entrepreneurship is in something everyone wants and that's totally okay, so let's move back into the degrees. Also please don't start showing me like college versus high school grad salaries and all that because you know we all know that most high school dropouts don't actually give a subscribe about improving themselves and becoming better people, they just want to just want to fuck around, so let's not get into those numbers. Now let's say you have a really great teacher and that's absolutely amazing right? Now you're going to have a good chance at truly kicking ass in your curriculum or whatever you're doing in school. Well not really, at least in Quebec. You see in Quebec Canada's laughing stock may add, we use a scoring system called the R score. The reason that I want to bring up R score is because it's the primary reason why universities at least in Canada will look at you. If you have an R score that matches their requirements they're going to look at you and if you don't they're most likely going to push you to the side and check on the next person. If you've never seen R score let's do a quick example. We got a calculator here, we're going to go and throw in your mark. You got an 85 which is really good in your class. The class only did about a 75. The standard deviation was let's say 10 and the average of the whole high school or college or whatever you're in was 75 as well. We're going to calculate that and you got a 30 which is a respectable score but let's say for medicine and something like McGill you need about a 35 average so you did 10% better than the whole average but because of the deviation and how well everyone else did you don't get that high of a score. A perfect example of this is let's say you got a 95 which is an amazing score and the class got a 90 right and the average was a 90. You guys all did amazing you should all be rewarded for it not really that's not how R score works so we're going to go and calculate that and you only got a 32 of course 32 is a good number but the fact that you got a 95 let's even push that to 100 now you're hating 35 100 in the class is what took you to 35 35 is not even a perfect score by the way it goes all the way up to 50 you cannot go over 100 you can never push 100 on your grade in school and you won't even get rewarded for that you'll get exactly what you need to apply to let's say a medicine school it's an absolutely absurd way of calculating someone's value and intelligence and it's just so wrong and it doesn't work but for some reason out of everywhere in the world Quebec is the only place it decides to use this stupid strategy or the stupid logic so without getting again too deep into our score I gave you an example with the calculator if your grade is really good but it's still close to the class average you get a relatively known low number in relation to what you got so it like we showed an example if you do really well but everyone else does really well your R score isn't going to be as high as it technically should be it's not showing your true intelligence it's showing your intelligence in relation to everyone else which is a really really scummy way of calculating your intelligence it really makes you hope that everyone does really bad and that you do really good and of course you're going to say no people aren't that terrible well it's a little different when you're putting everything on the line to live somewhere you're probably working a couple jobs just to pay your rent so you can live in the you know live in this area which is not a cheap place to live in and the fact that it decides your future if you do well or not or at least what everyone thinks so it becomes a very negative atmosphere and everyone wants to sabotage each other but they all act like friends it's just a very back-stabbing kind of environment that it that it encourages and this issue scales all the way up so if you were to get a hundred in a class and you were to peak you can technically like we saw in the example get between 33 to 35 R score which is really low for how well you did of course 35 is good enough to get you into a health school but it's really low in relation to the score that you got in that class and I'm not trying to say competition is bad but when you set it up in a system like this it's not encouraging to work well with others it's not encouraging to support your friends and make them do better it's kind of very like do I help my friend at the cost of myself or do I worry about myself and and screw my friend it's a very scummy environment and that's very noticeable we're walking around the marinopolis halls everyone puts a smile on their face but it's really not like I know I'm well ever admitted I don't really think the education system in Quebec is actually going to change much so it's really up to you to change your mentality about how valuable is this versus actually going and building projects and getting practical experience of course unless you're trying to get into an industry that forces you to get a degree like becoming a doctor or specific types of engineers or all that now the problem with degrees for me is that people pursue degrees rather than education they're getting from those degrees people would rather say they're a computer scientist than saying they can do the things that a computer scientist can do everyone's so focused on the idea of getting that degree and getting that paper because it will set them for life versus getting the skills that will set them for life and that they can apply in more than one situation and because of that mentality there isn't much that separates you from every other generic college student there's so much supply out there but there's not enough demand and when I say that you know of course people are going to be like Mike there's always jobs out there and you know what it's like Honda Civics you could see a Honda Civic every two three cars on the road but when you go to the dealership there's another 100 to 200 sitting in the back waiting collecting dust like the programming industry a lot of you familiar with that for my channel the programming industry is hugely oversaturated but it's oversaturated with people who can only kind of do the job they don't have people they're not saturated with people who can do the job and that's why you see a lot of like 17 to 20 years old people who like dropped out of high school and learned to code in their mom's basement and go and get out jobs that like pay them like 80k versus getting a degree and then getting paid 80k and now a huge percent of that is going into your debt all these success stories in the software industry it's because of that reason they're not the same typical generic student they they pop out when you're holding a thousand resumes and you got one person who has done it differently it kind of pops out little backstory when I was working my job the colleague I was with he was the guy who would do the interviews and he said something along the lines of if your college degree is the most important thing about you you're really really boring and I really kept at the heart for a long time because it's really true a degree is not a bad thing I don't think it's useless I'm going to say this a billion times I don't think your degree is useless but if you weigh everything on everything you have onto that degree it's just not enough because everyone else is doing it as well well you need a solid projects that show your skills whether it's a bunch of paintings you did or showing that you know you know how the stock market works and you've done well good trades or you know you've designed things on programs you could do graphic design whatever you're whatever you're doing you have to show that you could do the job with projects that reflect the job you're trying to get into now that we went over the larger problem of college degrees and Quebec education more specifically I want to talk a lot about Maryknapple I went to Maryknapple for about a year and a half and I would reflect my experience in one sentence don't go there so Maryknapple's college most classrooms look like the first ever classroom but colorized school is always under construction there's absolutely no room to breathe air it's so small and it's so populated and also conveniently whenever you need it the air conditioning is broken everyone pays the same amount but some people get really good teachers and some people get really bad teachers but you pay the same amount it's just up to luck your education is in the hands of luck the fact that they couldn't find enough good teachers now you might get stuck with one that's not very good of course those who have been watching my channel for a while I always say don't rely on those teachers don't rely on anyone but yourself go on your computer at home I honestly wouldn't even go to class I'll get into that later and I would just sit at home and study on my computer because that's where I can get most of the relevant information that I need the atmosphere in the school is really garbage because of what I explained earlier with our score you got a bunch of people that are spending a lot of money to be in this college and their success is related to how well you do so if you do worse and they do better they become technically in their eyes more successful in school so it's not anymore about getting that hundred percent mark and trying to be better than yourself than you were yesterday it's all about being better than everyone else and making sure everyone else doesn't do very well like I said the school is very small you have absolutely no room to just go and talk it's all about school school school school school but during the cafeteria all people do is study when you go any aisle any any staircase in the school there's people filling down the stairs just reading their books on their laptops there's absolutely nowhere to go so if you need it you need a breather you need a minute you need to get away from civilization you got to go and walk about 15 minutes to find the nearest location where you can go and sit down the difference is something like Dawson that is inside a mall in downtown Montreal where you could literally go anywhere and get away from all these students for me the biggest issue Marinaldo is are the teachers the teachers have a lot of room with how they work it's very lenient we are humans and humans judge subconsciously I can look like your third grade bully and because of that you can resent me without even knowing me it's just how we work we make associations you know your bully had black hair and I have black hair so now you associate me with him and you don't like me off the bat teachers have the room to be nice or not to people they can kind of ghost you and they can kind of help you a little bit more than they would help others it's a really scummy system for people who don't want to show up to class and that was a big problem for me I don't work well in classes I work well at home in my room in my enclosure let's call it but in the teacher's eyes I'm just someone who doesn't care about school because I'm not in class every which that also became a problem for me because teachers started to take attendance so I'm I'm there I'm sitting here and they're telling me you have to make a decision for the rest of your life this is a really important career decision here you got to choose what you want to get into and you know you're gonna have to be paying for it and all that but if you want to leave the classroom or if you have to go to the bathroom you have to let us know does that really make sense to you you just will be treated like an adult and you have to ask to go to the bathroom and back to the teachers having a bunch of room to play with what they can do and make their own rules that business teacher I was telling you guys about the one that never ran a successful business he had the rule of no computers or electronics in the classroom this is a business teacher we're in 20 this was 2016 no computers allowed this guy was the most boomer you can get and he was teaching us the next generation how to run businesses and set up a successful life for ourselves and others okay boomer now I went on my rant you listened you know thanks for being here on my TED talk but let's talk about some solution if the industry you want to get into does not require a degree like becoming a writer photographer illustrator programmer coder filmmaker mechanic plumber musician any of those type of creative jobs at least give a try you know taking that gap year that you're going to take to go vacation like in Cabo or something take that year to go and explore hobbies try things you've never tried before try and find what you truly enjoy and try to learn it on your own try and maybe start a little business on something that you enjoy little mom and dad kind of shop on Shopify or something try and start your own thing see if that works for you and then make the decision if you think you need college or not everyone jumps out of high school not knowing what the hell they want to do jumps into a curriculum or some type of degree they're going to pursue because they don't know what else they like and then they get so deep in shit and so deep in debt unless they have someone to support them that they can't go back and they have to live the next five ten years of their life the most creative years of their life the best years for you to explore things and to take risks and all that paying off debt for something that they don't even use for me personally audiobooks is literally what took me out of shit and and brought me to a bit less shit I'm not in a position here where I'm making millions of dollars in my Dan Balzerian lifestyle but I think the biggest progress I made was from audiobooks that's where it started I can't read for shit but I can listen and that's where it started for me then I moved on to websites like can academy that was pretty much what everyone used in Marinaldo anyways because most of the teachers have like these shitty russian accents or something and you have no clue what they're saying so can academy was a great one for chemistry math and now they're adding like everything you can think of you can probably get a college degree on can academy and brilliant org was the big one for me that's where I got a lot of artificial intelligence kind of things and really went into machine learning and all that so if you're doing like math or programming or any type of stem that's where I would go for that kind of stuff and it's all for relatively cheap it's good structured information for a good price I'm not sponsored by them by the way so now depending on the type of industry you want to get into and how you want to get into it it kind of really there's really many ways about getting about it if you're trying to be an entrepreneur in an industry you're going to have to spend a lot of time learning on your own and applying those things you learn in your business or whatever you're doing if you're trying to get a job you're going to have to do something similar but instead of applying these things on your business you're going to be applying them to projects and then taking those projects and being like hey here are my beautiful projects hire me please so let's say for programming jobs the best thing is when you can show up showing a project that's similar to what you'll be doing on the job that's usually what sets you miles apart from everyone else because everyone comes in with their generic projects that they stole from a certificate from a Udemy course and they like reorganized everything and they're like hey look what I made I made a to-do list and then you got those guys who come in and they're like well you guys do real estate you guys are running a home real estate website and here's one I made for myself that maybe even generates a bit of money so I already know how to do this I know how to do the business side of it I can provide value to your company and it's all about showing that you can provide value for the company or providing value for your own company for your own business 18 to 25 are the years where you want to be taking risks because you're going to learn from those risks really well once you move on to later years things change you have now your own apartment in your mortgage possibly a kid to feed things change you kind of get locked into that script of going to college working your job till you're 65 and hoping that the money runs that you run out before the money you saved all those years runs out in conclusion tuition is increasing salaries are not at least not at a level where it makes sense if you're getting a pay raise most companies inflation will turn that into like a one or two percent pay raise job security with your degree is a total scam I'm sorry you're not going to get more security because you have a degree except for the fact that they might use that as manipulation knowing that you're in more debt than someone else so you'll be more loyal when there's a tool in your toolbox and you haven't used it for years you try and sell it or get rid of it or you stop carrying it around you don't just carry it around because it was loyal to you for a year or two I'm sorry but that's the tars truth of how employees are treated you are a tool for the company's goal the CEO was once an employee and said fuck this shit I'm gonna make my own company so that I can be living my dream life and if you're not gonna if you're not helping that dream sorry but he's gonna have to get rid of you to save his own future and that's just how it is of course some CEOs are gonna be much nicer when it comes to letting you go and some are not but the idea of job security because you have a degree or job security in general is just a it's a it's a big meme it's a big joke it just doesn't happen it's not true don't believe me look at Wayfair look at HSBC just because of the coronavirus HSBC which has 235 000 employees got rid of 15 percent of their workforce 15 percent of their workforce based off of one year of like a revenue loss so 15 percent of 235 000 whatever the math is I'll put on the screen got fired and they're gonna be getting fired over the next three years because they can't just fire 35 000 people they need them to do their jobs and they need them to train other people to do their jobs so they're just gonna slowly roll off over the next three years all those people I know it's scary straying away from the traditional path and it was something that took me a good amount of time to kind of forget about on my own but from my firsthand experience it was the best decision I made ever and I'm not saying that necessarily because of what I'm doing I'm just saying stopping school and taking that semester to kind of figure things out on my own and see what I truly want to do and what I truly you know I'm good at and not good at and reading and all these opportunities I had when I stopped school for a minute it totally changed my life and I do recommend it for you I'm not saying your degrees are useless I think it's like the third time I said this in the video I don't think your degrees are useless I don't think they're worthless I don't think necessarily you're wasting your time I think you're hurting yourself by not taking the time to truly figure out what you want to do of course you can say you want to do something and change it later but just doing college for the idea of getting college done just because you want security or makes you more confident or it's going to properly prepare you and you're going to feel prepared at the end which is what no one ever feels prepared first of all all those reasons are reasons why you should stop take a minute take a breather figure things out and then get back at it when you're ready to go now that I've opened your third eye of truth feel free to like the video and subscribe so much more the shit coming on maybe we'll do some college cringe or something we'll just take the idea from Josh and reuse it here there's a lot more coming