Successful life without college???

[runner]

ok, warik...i agree the statistics are indecipherable.

btw, from what little i know of you i actually have some respect for you. tell me this, though...if you're so convinced that college is unnecessary and worthless, then why do you persist in going? why not drop out?

 

[May1010]

Yeah, Warik!

 

[Jimsbbc]

You people are the biggest bunch of fucking liars!!!!!! If anyone could walk out and make 80K a year without a college degree, why the fuck would anyone be working at Mcdonalds, or Walmart? You people who have responded the a college degree is a waste are just being defensive bc you don't have what it takes to get one.

 

[Warik]

because the guy without the degree was to lazy or stupid to get one.

Or because he was too busy working and getting job experience than to worry about spending 10+ hours a week at school and several more at home "learning" what he could have learned by simply reading a book.

Experience > Education.

-Warik

 

[Warik]

If anyone could walk out and make 80K a year without a college degree, why the fuck would anyone be working at Mcdonalds, or Walmart?

How many people working at McDonalds or Walmart can construct a grammatically correct sentence or perform tasks with greater complexity than moving an item over an optical scanner or punching: "Quarter pounder with cheese" on a computer? These are the people who should have gone to college and gotten an education instead of drinking and "drugging" all throughout high school and the years following.

People who walk out of high school with more skills than half the world don't need to waste their time unless they have a good reason for doing so.

-Warik

 

[Jimsbbc]

I don't agree with that. If you own your own biz, that is fine. If you are going into a corporate environment, I think it is mandatory

 

[plifter]

Why does every one act like money is success. I could be making more money as a geologist right now but most (at least entry level) geology jobs require more traveling than I want to do and require 70 -80 hour work weeks. I enjoy the job I have and am happy. I make enough to live comfortably.

 

[Warik]

if you're so convinced that college is unnecessary and worthless, then why do you persist in going?

Lol... who says I go to college to learn? I go to college to work for my job. I take my laptop with me and work in the library between classes, and in my computer classes I work DURING class because it looks like I'm taking notes or trying out programs and such.

I don't mean to present myself as the perfect human, because I'm not (as a matter of fact, I just shuddered when I considered the possibility of me actually being human). Anyway... basically I persist in going to college because:

a) It's free. (I earned two free-ride scholarships.... not the boldface, RyanH and others... you know who you are.)

b) I get an extra free $1,000 in my pocket every semester that I can invest or spend on components for my computer.

c) It's easy. I've honestly had to fight the urge to luagh out loud when given some assignments in my programming classes.

d) I only have to waste 3 years instead of 4.

e) I can do hours for my job between/during class.

f) I get to live at home.

g) Comic relief.

h) It's easy.

I'd be glad to elaborate on any of the above points if you wish.

College is really not that big a deal for me, although I shouldn't have to bother with it because of some employer obsession with: "He didn't waste 4 years of his life so he must not know anything!!!!"

-Warik

 

[Milhouse]

Depends on what you are going to do with your life.

I know alot of high school grads who are successful and well off/wealthy.

I know alot of university grads who are paying off $20000-30000 student loans while they work at a $30000 a year carreer.

One thing I will say is the people I know who didn't go to college or got kicked out like myself who are doing well are constantly reading and learning and it never stops.

School will give you a degree, but the life you live is the ultimate education and only losers stop learning.

 

[MaGilicuti]

okay it is possible to be successful without college but its not an easy task. you can't be lazy to be successful either way.

this thread makes me wanna quit school. anti college post