Why Higher Education Isn’t For Nerds — It’s For Capitalists

So I guess life owes meabout $3.5 million more… 


Click here to access the interactive chart and find job opening percentages by profession and level of education. You’d be surprised at the opportunities available to those in the media and entertainment who eschewed the Tom Cruise route (high school diploma only: 11%) by earning a bachelor’s degree (56%). 

While the “Mark Zuckerbergs” and “Bill Gateses” can drop out of an Ivy League school and go on to make billions of dollars, this chart is the most definitive stay in school message you may ever see.


Nostalgia

Crayola has retired just 13 colors in 123 years. The first 8 led to protests.

Wholesome

His trumpet broke halfway through the national anthem. So he grabbed a mic and started singing.

Nature

A man lost track of his late dad’s beagle for 10 years. Then a Florida rescue scanned her microchip.

Culture

In 1990, Marge Simpson ‘wrote’ to Barbara Bush for ‘criticizing her family.’ It got an apology.