SAT Bleh

Do people put too much emphasis on learning practical skills?

"More and more we seem to try to teach how to make a good living and not how to live a good life." There is an emphasis on learning practical skills that will carry is throughout our lives. These skills that will carry us throughout our lives. These skills will decide how much we will make ($) and then in turn will decide how we will live. Because it seems like everything is based on money now, in the time that we live, what jobs we have and the practical skills we learn will decide where we go. But do your practical skills really matter if you are not living a good life?
In the book The Poisonwood Bible a priest named Nathan Price is brought up to become a child of God. He learns and teaches himself how to preach to others and to share the Lord's Holy word and love. He also has a wife whom he teaches to be a loyal wife of a preacher and to love God. Her name is Orleanna. Orleanna learns how to obey Nathan and care for their family. She learned how to live like this in order to provide a good life for her family and herself. But in the book, it was obvious to see that she was definitely unhappy with what she had now. Although she may have made a good living, she did not have a good life.
The emphasis on making a living is large, sometimes too large. If people payed to much attention on making as much money as they could, then that would only be a good life for those who wanted that. People should only pay attention and learn the skills that they believe would be enough to make their life good, to match them.
The emphasis shouldn't be too much on learning practical skills, but on learning skills that are practical for yourself and your life. The skills would only bring you a good life if it came with everything that fills you up and gives you life.