School.....

Seems yesterday's post about Kenyans touched on alot of things that many people think about but don't say.Only problem is that with a post that thought provoking is that it's hard to come up with something as good.I was going to post something about how The Acolyte expresses his love and share some x-file but luckily logic prevailed!
At the moment I am disenchanted with school. I feel that the course that I am doing does very little towards helping me meet my personal and career goals. Truth be told I originally wanted to master in Public Health but when I looked for school I couldn't get any that offered immediate funding and when my present school offered funding for me in another public discipline I jumped at the offer. Don't get me wrong I am learning quite a bit but I already know that the bulk of my learning will have to be done on my own via research and consultation with my Profs as I feel the overall course isn't in line with my needs.I could take the whole policy analysis and management route but I don't want to turn into one of those people who just read through loads of papers and stats then go to seminars to discuss them (even though I wouldnt mind the U.N salary that comes with it). I would rather be into project management,monitoring and evaluation but that is only offered in one course while policy and bureaucracy is a major part of the courses here.When it took me almost 2 weeks to do a take home I knew to some point I was treading water and my heart was not into it, so after the break I am going to do what I usually do; dig in,concentrate and work my ass off whether I like it or not!
Anyway that gets me to wondering whether University is that neccesary unless you are going to work in a specialised field like medicine,I.T, engineering etc.Don't get me wrong University is a great place to go and widen one's horizons and get a take on the direction one's life should take but when it comes to cash and jobs there is loads of cash to be made in the trades and entrepreneurship.I met a House Inspector who is paid $275 for each house he inspects before it is sold and he said that he can do 3 houses or so.He says he knows some unscrupolous folk who do more by merely driving past the house and giving it a clean bill of health so they can drive by more houses and make more cash.The thing with Uni is that most of the time is that it just prepares people to be good employees and not innovators and in the case of many U.S unis they aren't even doing that well as a survey showed that 40% of graduands had communication skills that were very wanting.
Anyway I think If I do manage to get a good job when I graduate that I will go back to school for a second Master's in Public Health ie behaviour change and other areas of Public Health are more socially oriented as my undergrad was not in medicine.Other then that it's time I got back to the grindstone as I have no business complaining.So many other Kenyans here are working their asses off so they can stay in school and here I am making a complete meal out of things.
ps:That is not a photo of me!It's just one from my photo bank!