Was College Worth It?

About Was College Worth It?

A show hosted by Amir Lindsay-Khaledi who is a 3X college drop out. Amir interviews guests about whether college was worth it and the cultural beliefs they had about college growing up.

Publisher

Amir Lindsay-Khaledi

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Feb 2023

Latest episode

26 Jul 2023

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Jul 2023

   #7 - Former RCMP/United Nations Negotiator | Masters Conflict Analysis & Management Chris Backus

   His first interview with CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/917081667935 His 2nd interview with CBC: https://www.facebook.com/VancouverCBC/videos/1349422931761924/ Find Chris Backus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cbackus123/00:0 00:00 - Introduction 00:02:59 - How Was College Talked About Growing Up? 00:04:19 - How Policing Was A Calling For Him 00:08:00 - Going to Lethbridge College 00:13:10 - Going to University 00:14:46 - Moving to Quebec to learn French 00:18:30 - Amir summarizing + Follow Up Questions 00:22:10 - Starting his Policing Career with the RCMP 00:35:20 - Masters in Conflict Management Analysis 00:41:00 - Understanding People Even If You Don't Agree With Them 00:52:30 - No Stripes Movement 01:10:50 - RCMP Needs to get away from Contract Policing 01:30:40 - His Thoughts on Surrey Police Service Debate

2. 

   28 Jun 2023

   #6 - Mya Matos: Psychology Degree | Sr. Solution Engineer | Military Veteran

   00:00:00 00:02:26 Was College Worth It? 00:04:28 What Could Colleges Do More of? 00:06:58 What would have made college worst for you? 00:08:36 How Mya Worked full time while attending college 00:10:17 Good vs Bad Professors 00:16:22 How Military Experience Helped Mya in College 00:18:05 What made Mya want to join the Military 00:24:00 Student Loans 00:26:47 How College Was Talked About Growing Up 00:29:16 How Mya Decided What to Pursue in College 00:36:44 What Mya Does For Work 00:40:13 How her Psychology Degree helped her 00:44:04 What Mya Could Have Gotten More Out Of College 00:48:42 Playing the Corporate Game 00:52:45 Can Colleges actually simulate real world business 00:56:40 If College Wasn't An Option 00:58:13 Cultural Expecations of College 01:01:11 Student Debt 01:03:02 Following Curiosity in College 01:10:54 Cost of College 01:16:59 Business Not Requiring Degrees Anymore 01:21:10 How Colleges can deliver more 01:26:35 College is about figuring out what you like/don't li... 01:29:45 Parents and Pressure

3. 

   20 Jun 2023

   #5 - MBA | Senior Manager in Tech | Self-Taught Code: Hector Villasenor

   Find Hector on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hvillasenor/ 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:06 Was College Worth It? 00:05:02 Moving to the USA from Mexico 00:11:46 College Experience and Relationships are as important as the studies 00:14:16 Going to college at a later age 00:18:43 Hector's current MBA Experience 00:19:44 How he started at a community college 00:20:40 His 2nd time dropping out 00:22:31 Where he learned to code 00:26:00 His journey into information systems 00:31:22 English is a hard language to learn 00:31:55 Comparing life to the game of SIMS 00:39:35 Why make him want to teach? 00:43:20 Working Full Time while in school 00:45:05 What he is getting out of his MBA 00:49:04 Portable Skills from College 00:52:32 Direct vs Optional advice in India 00:53:49 Your Duty as a leader 00:55:24 How he built a team of 50 people within a year 01:08:13 Manager vs Director: the difference 01:11:37 Americans have an 8% chance of doing better than their parents 01:15:17 Was College Worth iT? 01:15:53 Outro

4. 

   20 Jun 2023

   #4 - UBC Adjunct Professor | Vancouver Community College | Senior BI Consultant: Stephen Barichello

   00:00:00 Intro 00:02:35 Was College worth it? 00:07:15 Why Stephen Dropped Out 00:10:48 How he became a bartender in Calgary 00:13:29 Why Bartending appealed to him 00:15:13 Why he left bartending 00:17:34 Application Process at Telus 00:20:59 Next Steps after Call Centre 00:24:59 He automated his job and thought he was fired 00:32:29 His transition to a Business Analyst role 00:37:39 Leaving the Business Analyst Role 00:41:43 Figuring out his next step after being a Business Analyst 00:43:05 Next step as a Performance Analyst 00:45:44 Quitting and moving back to BC 00:48:44 Moving Back to Calgary and joining Telus 00:55:17 Moving back into reporting and performance analysis 00:57:59 How he's always looking down the road 01:00:12 Moving from front end to back end reporting 01:04:18 The Next Step: First Job with Tableau 01:08:46 Oil Prices dropped and layoffs begun 01:10:20 Why a senior title was important to him 01:11:43 How he became the first canadian accredited trainer 01:14:36 Going back to Telus 01:23:20 Realizing he loved being a technical expert 01:24:08 Becoming an Adjunct Professor at UBC 01:27:31 Leaving Telus and Starting his own LLC 01:35:33 How was college talked about in the household? 01:37:33 If he could have a dream job 01:38:51 What advice would you give your younger self 01:40:22 Balancing Passions with Value Creation

5. 

   10 Apr 2023

   #3 - Fiction Writing Degree | Best Selling Author | Former High School Teacher : Emily Gindlesparger

   Emily's Website: https://www.emilygindlesparger.com/ (https://www.emilygindlesparger.com/) Emily's Book - Please Make Me Love Me:  https://a.co/d/bCxTQzu (https://a.co/d/bCxTQzu) Emily's Instagram: @EmilyGindle Where Emily Works: https://scribemedia.com (https://scribemedia.com) 00:00:00 - Emily Intro 00:02:03 - Emily’s Book 00:06:07 - Negative voices 00:12:17 - Feelings are complicated 00:15:29 - Emotional Flossing 00:20:42 - Emily coming out of the closet to her mom 00:23:36 - Why cars make hard conversations easier 00:24:59 - How difficult conversations change our relationships 00:29:35 - Emily’s thoughts on swearing in books/writing 00:32:37 - What Emily learned from Tucker Max 00:34:32 - ‘I Feel’ VS ‘I Feel Like’ 00:36:51 - How college was talked about in Emily’s household 00:42:10 - Photography has more people skills than we think 00:45:00 - When Emily realized she was good at writing 00:46:14 - Her ghostwriting job at Scribe 00:48:09 - Her career as a High School English Teacher 00:58:17 - What Emily did/didn’t get from college 01:04:48 - If college wasn’t an option for her 01:07:03 - How Emily financed college 01:10:17 - Student debt 01:13:48 - Portable Skills Emily got from College 01:16:03 - Why Emily didn’t pursue law school 01:20:46 - Conversations with parents 01:23:38 - Emily's favorite memories from college 01:25:41 - What makes Emily cringe most 01:28:21 - Why Emily hates overhead lighting 01:31:08 - David Goggins nickname for Emily’s coworker 01:31:59 - Emily’s Google history 01:33:39 - Your brain is lying to you when it speaks in absolutes. 01:37:11 - Emily’s #1 advice for writers 01:38:46 - How to find Emily

6. 

   25 Mar 2023

   #2 - Music Degree | Software Architect | Jiu Jitsu Gym Owner: John Garvens

   John's Website: https://www.johngarvens.com/ (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVo3akQzUWJVbVdBalYzV1FlQkpuR0E1aWxHd3xBQ3Jtc0ttNFZMeXE3djNjc2JmUE0tTXFxYXRRZnVXZ2JUYnNHTFhZUEVPZ2dKMzhtaE51ZmxvUGlVSHoweTNxdUZXd0xVZWRyU1NhMXZ1cERYSGpON1Bmc3BadEhIUHk0NE9vaGc4SnVyMF9ETk1Gci1hcFJlaw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.johngarvens.com%2F&v=CxsB3SPzxrM) John's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngarvens/ (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbG9BRWdGZWI2d0VXTkx1cVZrNEd0ZVhmYTJUUXxBQ3Jtc0tsMEtLMVlpc2N4eE1udTFmX05ObTc4UUs4RHROMXhabWlYZnA2V2p6ZGx5VHJXczM5UmUxWnJPVzlpRG4tY1RZRlZqNzNEdmp4TTM3X3RmRGNTRnMxNlFCZ0cxR1FjWDNLQ2lwVTRpdEhUcEdmWU9OZw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjohngarvens%2F&v=CxsB3SPzxrM) 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:02 How John was expected to pay for college 0:04:35 Middle Eastern beliefs aroud who pays for college 0:07:54 How degrees no longer guarantee employment 0:08:58 Anyone can get a degree if you're willing to shell out enough money 0:09:46 What John's parents majored in 0:10:56 How there was never an expectation that John had to go to college 0:11:22 How John was picking his career path 0:12:43 The first time John saw a computer as a child 0:13:11 How john was put to work in the farm as a child 0:14:25 What made John pick music 0:16:42 How people change their major all the time 0:19:13 John's time in college as a music major 0:20:23 Music PhD students who were never hired to play music 0:22:32 John's example of the opportunity cost of college 0:24:25 You don't feel Student Debt until it's time to pay it back 0:26:29 John's Sci-Fi Idea of forgiving student debt 0:28:15 It's my education that matters -- not schooling 0:29:18 John explaining to his dad that was quitting 0:30:30 How John would explain his employment gap 0:31:39 His goals with his current career path 0:32:29 Diversify Education like an Investment Portfolio 0:38:11 Talking about Hussein's concept of being likeable as a marketable skill 0:39:45 The most marketable skills are the ones not on the job description 0:40:03 John's book and the chapter on building non salesforce skills 0:40:28 80% of your salesforce career has nothing to do with Salesforce 0:41:23 Do good work. Be easy to work. Turn it in on time 0:42:40 Make your life a story no one else can tell 0:43:37 How John's Career path didn't even exist when he was in college 0:43:57 Marketable Skills that John got from his music degree 0:47:53 Why John Is considering an MBA 0:51:54 Johns Salary Path 1:02:23 How summer jobs can't pay for college anymore 1:07:18 Call yourself a consultant -- not a freelancer 1:09:48 What John wishes he did more/less of in college 1:13:18 Be. Seem. Feel. 1:15:12 Imposter Syndrome and advice to his younger self 1:30:40 John's worker who went from managing a pizza hut to learning to code 1:32:30 Stanford MBA for the relationships 1:37:29 Why relationships matter 1:41:53 The rising cost of college vs inflation 1:43:48 How you can't claim bankruptcy on loans 1:45:55 Scale of 1-10 - Was College Worth It? 1:52:32 How John reached out to a Harvard prof 1:57:40 How it'll be a faster download of information to be immersed with friends 1:57:20 Johns question to the Stanford MBA Panel 1:58:45 What John got completely wrong about college 2:01:50 Don't give your job too many jobs 2:03:30 New Campaign for Colleges: Get Shitfaced with Smart People 2:04:22 How to contact John / Outro

7. 

   28 Feb 2023

   #1 - Architecture Degree | Best Selling Author: Hussein Al-Baiaty

   Hussein's #1 Amazon Best Selling Book 'The Art of Resilience: The Refugee State of Mind': ⁠https://a.co/d/ateUbcR⁠ (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbU1MYnYtOFUtVlZhWTFHX1pqbnBiNGFXdDFVZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuVHlqbzlxS1ZldlN1aGgyQTZRR2Z2MjB2ZHowc1RjbzR2S3ZsUzlDWEdyeFpOOWRPWDBKNXFQb1NNQlRkVDJ2VEFWc0lDemdMOFl1RVhtMWMyQ1cza2FyNDJ5eTFFWVNSUHotR0dqeUh1UkdIRk43dw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fa.co%2Fd%2FateUbcR&v=pbhNKFhOU3Y) Hussein's YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@HusseinAlbaiaty Refutees Website: ⁠https://refutees.com (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazA5aFhjcFNxXzZXa2ZOaWI2a0tLejdkWXE2UXxBQ3Jtc0ttejJBUW5OOThqdVlJZXJFenRWdUk4cUtuWk1WZUkyVjRiV3ZWck14U0MzdjhFTExoUFhVSy1QQVpheEY1VDBFbWZOcE05cEp5MHZfRkhHSHN0ZkJmbURCOGUyZDdOWFpIbDRZM0NsNnJDbjZlbGlJcw&q=https%3A%2F%2Frefutees.com%2F&v=pbhNKFhOU3Y) 00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=0s) Intro 01:34 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=94s) His 4 years in a refugee camp 05:38 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=338s) Middle Eastern  vs American education system 06:55 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=415s) His journey as an Architecture major. 09:18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=558s) Marketable skills he got from college 16:45 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=1005s): Middle Eastern Cultural beliefs around Education 18:32 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=1112s) - How being likeable is a marketable skill 20:14 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=1214s) - How important is the credibility that college provides? 24:25 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=1465s)  What he would have done if he didn’t go to college 27:23 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=1643s) Cost of college 30:32 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=1832s) - Was college worth the cost for him? 32:09 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbhNKFhOU3Y&t=1929s) - Outro

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