In my case, absolutely YES!. I was hired with my promise to continue to get an Engineering degree from Villanova. So if I was not going to college I never would have been hired. One achievement led to another and then another ntil I was promoted to Internationl Planning Manager with responsibility for Latin America, Africa and the Pacific. That led to making a deal with China to import a hand hoist which led to a promotion to International Marketing Manager. That led to visits to 91 different countries, to walking on the Great Wall of China several times, to South Africa, to just about every country in Western Europe, just about every country in Central and South America and to every major city in Australia and several trips around the world in both directions. All these years later I still receive retirement benefits from some of those projects. Every family member is familiar with most of the places I visited and one grandaughter who is only 20 has already visited many West European countries. College is part of an education that has continued right into retirement with the fantastic amount of information on the internet. For me, education never stopped from the early days of asking mom and dad what does this word mean, to college, to international contacts to the realization that this is a wonderful an amazing world. But… On the other side of the equation is a friend of mine who became a millionaire by starting out by going to trade school instead of the traditional high school, becoming a house painter and ending as a real extate tycoon. If I had to do it over again I’d do it the same with a few corrections along the way.
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