When the writer was younger, there were 3 streams in high school to go after graduating – university, college or work. The first choice for many was either work or university with college further down the list. As the economic slowdown has remain in neutral, many people are discovering colleges offer challenging and interesting programs. Reading over an insert about colleges, it seems the bias of colleges further down the list remains. There can be many reasons, one is university graduates tended to become policy makers and their bias is university (there are more grants for universities than colleges)  If you end up with a good paying job, it is not surprising a bias exists. However, people are learning with a college degree, you can end up with a good paying job too, maybe make even more money than those with a university degree.

Linking to dividend paying stocks, we all have biases. In the above case educational bias, we have hometown bias, regional bias, and even our source of income. That is okay, and on many levels it is good thing to have. Wherever you are from, you will be exposed to certain industries more than others, that is good and it is to your advantage that you see opportunities. In business, the balance sheet and income sheet remain the same, wherever you are from, a business needs to make a profit. For this blog, if the stock trades on a market, paying dividends is the next stage and if they are consistent over the years so much the better.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time – to raising questions