What do you think?

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How do you measure success, is it by academic achievements or is it the ability to earn lots of money.
I?m just wondering as I most of the academics I know are just scraping a living whereas some of the other people I know that left school with awful qualifications are doing really well.
Should we be less focused on academic results or be more focused on getting our children to look at ways to make money from an early age?
What are your thoughts?

We should be focussing on helping our children develop a good work ethic, knowing how to make and keep good friends, providing them with positive role models and helping them to realise that neither qualifications nor money are the pivot on which the world revolves, I think. So long as they are happy in what they end up doing and are sharing it with good people (family, lovers, friends) the rest is immaterial.

What a great reply, you are 100% right.

DS school has a motto on the wall in the entrance hall - strive not to have more, but to be more.
I think that's a pretty good aim to try and live your life by.

My Uncle is a professor of Physics, he can?t afford a car, he loves his job but he?s finding it hard to survive in the economic climate. Other Uncle left school without qualifications he drives a Bentley and is very happy, lovely family great job etc . One of my friends DH has 2 PHDs they?re scraping a living and totally miserable, rarely go out don?t have any extra cash to take the kids out etc, compared to another friend in the same circle who left school again without and exams and they live in a 6 bedroom house and again are very happy.

I?m just wondering if we are sucking the creativity and uniqueness out of our children by constantly barraging them to do well at school. I know I am guilty of putting school work and after school clubs before anything else creative.

I might just look at developing their entrepreneurism skills and let them think out of the box rather than doing the same things week in week out.

I have no problem with people awful qualifications earning lots of money as long as it is earned legally and they pay all the tax they should.
My DB left school with no qualifications worked very long hours doing a dirty job not many would fancy doing. He set up his own business and employed others, still working long hours and taking the financial risks himself.

I do realise university lecturers, graduate engineers and others are not as well paid as maybe they should be but they are not alone in that.

IMO, success is about getting a job that you enjoy and getting paid a reasonable wage for it, and having positive relationships with your friends and family.

Well, the same as Remus, really!