I grew up on a farm. Went to a school in the countryside the first eight years. Went to high school on the Standing Rock Reservation.
I can with certainty say I did not have everything I needed to go off and have the best possible career. Not all of us were born into that type of situation.
I would not have become an economist without going to college and taking an economics class to fulfill a requirement. It was so right for me that I even got a PhD. Needless to say, that would not have happened if I had stuck around to take over my dad's excavating business or the family farm. [Edit: I was a licensed sewer and water installer before I graduated high school, so I was in a better place than a lot of high school grads.]
I can with certainty say I did not have everything I needed to go off and have the best possible career. Not all of us were born into that type of situation.
I would not have become an economist without going to college and taking an economics class to fulfill a requirement. It was so right for me that I even got a PhD. Needless to say, that would not have happened if I had stuck around to take over my dad's excavating business or the family farm. [Edit: I was a licensed sewer and water installer before I graduated high school, so I was in a better place than a lot of high school grads.]