Believe it or not, your entire academic career doesn’t really tell you much about yourself. It tells you only if you are good (or not) at school, which is fine if you want to spend the entire life in academia. But, it would have been far better if it could indicate whether or not are we going to be successful in making money or managing our failed relationships – if that matters. Here, 7 reasons to make you believe life turned out to be so different than what we were being trained for, all those years:

3. Our teachers never liked the idea of us being a talkative fellow. “Don’t make too many friends; heavy take on socializing doesn’t let you focus on things that are rather important in your life,” they always emphasized.

Whereas your job always demands you to be a social butterfly. “Networking is the only Key to a successful career,” they keep reminding us.