Am I a loser because I didn't go to university?

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In my country its becoming a larger problem. They use the lack of a university degree to exclude people, more and more.

If you don't have a university degree, they simply just disregard you, and don't even bother looking at what you actually have.

^ Yes, I fear that will happen to me. I won't even get considered for promotion. If I get fired, I may not be considered for another job.

I suppose my consolation is if I get fired I'll have plenty of time to study without work interfering (weather they want to hire a 36 year old graduate over a 36 year old with 14 years of experience is another story).

If I have to live on welfare again, money will be tight because my rent is higher than it was in my old place.

The thing that really scares me about living on welfare is, if while I'm employed I decide to start saving, if over the next few years I save 10 or 20 or 30 thousand dollars and then I get fired, I'll be expected to live on that before I'm eligible for welfare.

I might be able live on that money for a few months or a year but the point is, the last 3 or 7 years of saving and living frugally will have been for nothing.

But if, over the next 3 or 7 years I live extravagantly and spend all my disposable income on video games and other unnecessary things, while saving nothing, I'll be eligible for welfare straight away.

So if I save and then get fired, I end up with no savings. If I don't save and then get fired, I still end up with no savings but at least I spent the previous 3 or 7 years living in more luxury than if I was saving.

So I can't stay unemployed for four years to get my degree if I have savings because then those savings would interfere with my welfare payments. That's why it would have been better to get one when I was in my early 20s. I was claiming welfare back then but had no savings that would stop my welfare payments.

No.

Stop measuring your worth by worth by whether or not you have a degree.

Many of the most successful people in the world don't have degrees. It matters what you do, not what you studied and got a piece of paper for. I personally know multi-millionaires who never got degrees. They were too busy working hard to be bothered.

If you must make a comparative measurement of yourself, compare yourself to who you used to be. You're now employed whereas you weren't before. That's improvement and progress you should be proud of, not feeling like a failure without a certain title, degree, or income level.

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Good point.