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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

How To Build a Successful Career Without a Degree

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Ken Coleman Show is here to help answer your questions about career, passion and talent so you can maximize your potential and get closer to landing your dream job. Do you have a question for Ken? Call the show at 844-747-2577 or email ask@kencoleman.com. Helpful Resources: Free Guides & Resources The Proximity Principle Facebook Community Subscribe to The Newsletter Articles by Ken Learn more about your ad choices. https://megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy

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0:00.0

Coming up, how I built a successful career with no degree, and you can too, and then

0:11.6

speaking of degrees, no degree required is a hot trend, and then why millennial and

0:15.1

Gen Z men are big quitters.

0:25.1

Helping you make the contribution that you were created to make in this world, I'm

0:31.7

Ken, this is the Ken Coleman show, and to that end I want to encourage some of you

0:36.7

who are in mental transition, maybe you're actually in a transition, maybe

0:43.2

you're just in the very beginning of considering is there a transition?

0:48.3

I mean a big life transition.

0:51.2

I'm going to share a good bit of my story today to encourage you first and then to equip you

0:59.0

so that you can actually make this move. So let's set the tone, shall we? We live in a world,

1:06.0

and we're going to cover this in more detail in our next segment. Well, we live in a world where

1:13.2

as I said at the beginning, there is a trend, and it's a hot trend, and it's not going to be

1:19.0

just a trend, it's going to be the new normal very, very soon. And that is that a diploma at

1:28.1

college degree is no longer the prerequisite for success. Now, one of the things that has made

1:33.9

the message of a degree is the best way to be successful is it played to our fighter flight

1:41.1

psyche, right? That we humans, we long for a clear path. We just do. The more we know,

1:51.7

the better we feel. Just who we are. And so what has happened is, is the, and it was brilliantly

1:59.8

done, the college degree became a really strong marketing message that met our deepest human

2:06.8

need, which is, what do I do to go forward? And it was just mapped out for us.

2:13.0

All right. I mean, now I'm just going to tell you, for those of you who like some depth, I want

2:18.0

you to chew on that one. And just, you know, bring that one up at your next cocktail party and just

2:23.8

let that one go. The marketing message of the college degree is the best way to be successful,

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