ONLY oneself can change his or her financial status. That is why this 2008, be good in your studies if you are still a student because it will definitely reflect on your career later on. For instance, if you have been in the dean’s list consistently during university days, chances are you will get a job more immediately than the rest of your peers. It is much better to study in college nowadays because more and more universities and colleges in Spain, the United States and other countries in the world have already established networks with potential employers. For the small educational institutions such as community colleges and vocational schools, their network of potential employers comes from the county or the state itself. For larger educational institutions such as Georgetown, their pool of potential employers is listed under Fortune 500.

Schooling or taking up a master’s degree as well as a doctorate can definitely make one be promoted. Let’s say for instance that you are already at the helm of the Central Intelligence Agency being an intelligence analyst. If you will persevere schooling at Georgetown taking up a master’s and then a doctorate in international relations, chances are you’ll move up the institutional ladder and become a deputy director either for administration or operations. Or maybe you can become a bureau director at one of the attached agencies at Foggy Bottom. Or maybe you can become the assistant of the National Security Adviser. There are a lot of possibilities to explore.

Let’s have a non-conventional example. Let’s say that you are from Salamanca and you would like to learn English as a second language. Thus, you have persevered completing the basic stage of TOEFL or Teaching of English as a Foreign Language. That takes one calendar semester to finish or about six months. That’s a lot of patience on your part especially if you have a day job. But since you’re not contented with it, you went on finishing the intermediate and advanced stages of TOEFL. Later on, you went to Thailand teaching English. It’s very lucrative to teach English there especially among the workers in the hospitality industry because there are many English-speaking tourists in the country. Besides, you can enjoy the serenity of Thai beaches especially in such places as Phuket where you can skinny dip on a moonless night and just enjoy the glow of planktons illuminating your body in the water.

Another case in point – let’s say you’re already a registered nurse from the Philippines. But since you want to move on to such countries as France and Japan where workers in the health sector are highly paid, you need to take examinations such as NCLEX. Or if you’re an agricultural economist from Maine and you have been working at the state Department of Agriculture for 12 years, chances are you will be promoted to state secretary of agriculture if you complete your master’s degree and doctorate.