沙之天地

老師最近出了一個讓大家傷腦筋的報告，雖說我在今天終於完成了，可是如果要背起來也是一個大問題:( 希望不要愈來愈懶散了:(

Are people educated overseas entitled to the high salary?

“Overseas degree” is no longer means “high salary” in Taiwan. Because of the progress of technology, the trend of “knowledge intensive” in before has been changed to “ability-oriented”. It means that you don’t need to “know” many information, but you need to understand how to "use" these information. Even if you own just elementary school's degree, as you have one specific ability, you may gain the higher achievement than who owns college degree but doesn't have any extensive ability!!

For instance, jewelry industry is a knowledge intensive industry, but it doesn’t need any high degree or overseas degree. If you want to have higher reward in jewelry industry one day, be an apprentice and train your language ability. You can learn these not only in school but in your job, so the school qualification is not a necessary.

Apprenticeship is a very interesting system. It cultivates your real ability instead of giving you a degree. What decide your pay is your ability. I think this way suits those who don’t have any background and money.

Recently, overseas degree and high degree is no longer a necessary. They give few rate of return of investment to who wants to earn money. For example, if you are a college student in Taiwan, your beginning salary is about NT$30,000, but if you have a master degree, your boss may just want to give you NT$33,000, even if you gain an overseas master degree, your beginning salary may only NT$35,000, but your spending of studying aboard may cost you more than NT$2 million!!

Apprenticeship and vocational school become a fasion in nowadays Taiwan warns us what? Are high degree and overseas degree no longer needed? My opinion is NOPE, but your goal to study abroad is not just because of high salary, but because that you really want to  acquire something into your mind!