Which one is more important, diploma or ability?

First of all, don’t antagonize academic qualifications and abilities. These two things are of the same origin. After students enter society, the biggest difference is the change of roles. When you join a company, you need to make money for the company, and when you join the system, you need to serve the system. Therefore, your value is how much value you can bring to others. When you compete for an opportunity with your opponent, you enter a situation where you are being screened: the employer needs to use the minimum time cost and training cost to obtain a qualified employee. At this time, academic qualifications are a very important indicator to judge whether a person is worthy of training.

Because academic qualifications are proof of your ability as a student. For example, your university degree is proof of your ability 4 years ago. Your college credits and experience are proof of your ability over the past four years.

After you actually join the job, academic qualifications are not everything to you. Unless you want to do research or do academic work in the future, or you don’t care about work at all, then there is no problem for you to continue your studies. But if you still want to find a good job and make a lot of money, then you may be wasting your time by focusing on further studies.

In fact, in the cruel workplace, what really matters is ability, and academic qualifications are only an auxiliary.