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JOHN BOGERT: 'Get an education. It's the one thing they can't take away from you.'

I'm not certain that my mother, bless her immigrant heart, saw any value at all in a college education.

A product of the Great Depression, she wanted me to hook up with a city job. Maybe driving a truck.

I don't know where she came up with that plan. Probably it was the precariousness of her own life and how the only people she knew who had steady work didn't get it from college. They got it working for the city.

And God knows there have been times when I wished that I had taken her advice. I've driven trucks and I like the work. According to payscale.com , the average $60,000 yearly long-haul trucker salary doesn't suffer compared to your average print journalist salary.

Still, I couldn't have taken up journalism without a college degree. Nor could I have been the semi-educated person I wanted to be without the life-shaping college experience   Read Full Article...