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3 years since graduation im at the halfway point........ugh i need the motivation to get to that goal!
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Originally Posted by fivefivenine
I have motivation I really want to go asap, I just need to buy a car first, I'm broke only have 2 G's saved right now, I did everything you can possibly think of from selling every drug to pimpin' to bank fraud, the good ol' days lol, Did you stay in high school though? I dropped out and was planning to get my GED soon.Originally Posted by BgL2687
I was just like you when I was in high school. I made pretty good paper and that ruined me. I got so use to the lifestyle I had no motivation to go to college. I went to please my parents, but now that I'm almost done it feels good.
Show me a college dropout who is making 6 figures without coming from a loaded family, and I will show you an exception to the rule.
Lol yeah youre exactly right, every successful college dropout is an exception to the rule. Bravo good sir, you must have prepared this conclusion in yourcollege courses? A+
Originally Posted by GTEK
Originally Posted by fivefivenine
I have motivation I really want to go asap, I just need to buy a car first, I'm broke only have 2 G's saved right now, I did everything you can possibly think of from selling every drug to pimpin' to bank fraud, the good ol' days lol, Did you stay in high school though? I dropped out and was planning to get my GED soon.Originally Posted by BgL2687
I was just like you when I was in high school. I made pretty good paper and that ruined me. I got so use to the lifestyle I had no motivation to go to college. I went to please my parents, but now that I'm almost done it feels good.
Why do people do this on the Internet?
Originally Posted by Thousandaire
Originally Posted by GTEK
Originally Posted by fivefivenine
I have motivation I really want to go asap, I just need to buy a car first, I'm broke only have 2 G's saved right now, I did everything you can possibly think of from selling every drug to pimpin' to bank fraud, the good ol' days lol, Did you stay in high school though? I dropped out and was planning to get my GED soon.Originally Posted by BgL2687
I was just like you when I was in high school. I made pretty good paper and that ruined me. I got so use to the lifestyle I had no motivation to go to college. I went to please my parents, but now that I'm almost done it feels good.
Why do people do this on the Internet?
Do what? Is it really that hard to believe he did that #+@$? It ain't like you know that man..
Originally Posted by Rexanglorum
If you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars that you do not have to get a measly bachelors degree, you must either love learning or you are making a big mistake financially.
Rexanglorum wrote:
If you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars that you do not have to get a measly bachelors degree, you must either love learning or you are making a big mistake financially.
Rexanglorum wrote:
If you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars that you do not have to get a measly bachelors degree, you must either love learning or you are making a big mistake financially.
I had to quote that 3x for STRONG emphasis...
socluis90 wrote:
Originally Posted by richKarlmarx
things were tough in the beginning, but once i got my feet on the ground, things picked up pretty quickly
lol so now you're a college dropout?
This dude has serious identity issues.
Originally Posted by PIYANPING
dropped out of college and now play poker for a living, 500 a day
Originally Posted by Rexanglorum
I think that college drop outs may be the smartest among us. If you have parents or a scholarship or the military paying for school, go for it, it can only help. If you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars that you do not have to get a measly bachelors degree, you must either love learning or you are making a big mistake financially. Higher education is a bubble, when the relative returns continue to diminish and costs continue to rise on an asset, the bubble is growing.
Higher education has been over sold and government largess and easy credit, along with promises of tremendous payoffs, all in concert with dire threats of how life will be without a degree, have combined to have simply too many people going to college. Meanwhile, too few people are going into skilled occupation, not "ditch digging" or "flipping burgers" but being the people who make our society and our myriad modern machines run smoothly and make our all of our lives more comfortable and enjoyable.
The conventional wisdom that the person in college is destined for long term success, greater enough in magnitude relative to his less educated brethren, to justify any and all costs of obtaining that education, is simply obsolete.
Originally Posted by kix4kix
Show me a college dropout who is making 6 figures without coming from a loaded family, and I will show you an exception to the rule.
TH0MAS CR0WN wrote:
REX, I've always wondered what University you went to, I'm sure you majored in Econ right?
I double majored in History and Economics and California State University, Northridge. I graduated in 2008.
Let's say these people don't want to be plumbers, electricians, or join any other professional trade, what then?
Like Wawa said, work for yourself, be it in a trade or in owning a restaurant or a bar or retailing. Obviously, plumbing, being a car mechanic or a subcontractor or contractor are the most common examples of viable careers for people without degrees and entrepreneurship is considered the most lucrative pathfor those who did not graduate college but there are quite few options and people should consider that before committing to massive student debts to get a BAor a BS, which guarantees absolutely nothing.
Again, if your parents can pay for all of it, the military or some sort of scholarship pays for it or if you have a very clear plan to major in something thatcan get you into a very remunerative field and/or you have a plan to graduate from graduate or professional school, you should not rush into college andconsider a university education the default. That is the problem for many kids with limited means, they are scared into believing that college is the onlyoption bu tat the same time they are being told that a college degree, from any school in any subject is superior to all other options and that it is sosuperior that one need not worry about ever incurring large amounts of student debt. To top it all off, many kids are led to believe that private universityeducation is better than public when there are many private schools that are decidedly ordinary but cost a multiple of what it cost to attend a public schoolor similar or even greater caliber.
Once again, higher education is a bubble that is similar to housing. It is being oversold, people were told that they must try to own a home as soon aspossible, they were told that the alternative to owning a home was to be permanently shut out of society, the attitude was that one was not a full fledgedadult until one paid a mortgage, the consensus was that given the ghastly alternatives and guaranteed returns on the investment that no amount f debt was toomuch to get in on the game. The exact same policies, habits, attitudes, believes and hysteria that caused so many to plunge head first into housing, only todrown in debt and low or negative return to justify it. As has been the case with housing, those who started off poor and were simply doing what"experts" and others in position of trust told them to do, who are getting damaged the most by all of this.
Originally Posted by GTEK
Originally Posted by fivefivenine
I have motivation I really want to go asap, I just need to buy a car first, I'm broke only have 2 G's saved right now, I did everything you can possibly think of from selling every drug to pimpin' to bank fraud, the good ol' days lol, Did you stay in high school though? I dropped out and was planning to get my GED soon.Originally Posted by BgL2687
I was just like you when I was in high school. I made pretty good paper and that ruined me. I got so use to the lifestyle I had no motivation to go to college. I went to please my parents, but now that I'm almost done it feels good.
Why do people do this on the Internet?
Originally Posted by Thousandaire
Originally Posted by GTEK
Originally Posted by fivefivenine
I have motivation I really want to go asap, I just need to buy a car first, I'm broke only have 2 G's saved right now, I did everything you can possibly think of from selling every drug to pimpin' to bank fraud, the good ol' days lol, Did you stay in high school though? I dropped out and was planning to get my GED soon.Originally Posted by BgL2687
I was just like you when I was in high school. I made pretty good paper and that ruined me. I got so use to the lifestyle I had no motivation to go to college. I went to please my parents, but now that I'm almost done it feels good.
Why do people do this on the Internet?
Do what? Is it really that hard to believe he did that #+@$? It ain't like you know that man..
Originally Posted by OGbobbyjohnson773
Now, you can ask college grads the same question and get the same response
Originally Posted by wawaweewa
Originally Posted by kix4kix
Show me a college dropout who is making 6 figures without coming from a loaded family, and I will show you an exception to the rule.
Show me how many Americans with degrees are making six figures.
This is how it breaks down for non college graduates.
If you plan on pursuing your own livelihood (your own business) then the lack of a degree will not hinder your efforts.
If you don't plan on working for yourself then not having a degree will become a problem.
The 3 guys in my neighborhood who I know that own multi million dollar construction and electrical contracting companies don't have degrees.
This has been a topic of discussion for AGES.Originally Posted by kix4kix
I never heard any of this degree is overrated stuff 3 years