At 4/8/09 03:39 PM, BrianEtrius wrote:
Yes, you can not go to college, but in the long run, you are just going to screw yourself over.
My mom went to college AND got screwed over, it seems like getting screwed over is more of a personal thing than college. Going to college is helpful, but it's not a guarentee for success, constant vigilance is required for the successes most people see as success.
Because if you want ANY good high paying job these days, you going to at least need a BA, if not your Masters.
A Masters can cost as much as, if not twice as much, as a bachelors...some people pay over 100k for their masters, so you have to be going down a field that actually makes money, like a computer programmer or something with computers.
That's how it is. Also, look at it from a company's perspective. Who would you rather hire, a man with a Masters Degree or a guy fresh out of high school? The guy with the diploma.
McDonalds and most entry level jobs prefer people without a diploma. The high schooler has no prior job experience, no bad habits already created, which works well for their agenda because in the long run they want to be the ones to train you. The more moldable you are the better it looks for the majority of actual jobs that are opening.
As the world becomes more fast-food oriented and takes a page from their book, the jobs become dumbed down and the pay-rate drops. The amount of work required drops, the amount of human interaction becomes almost nil.
It's better off in the long run to go. Besides, you get the whole college experience.
I find its better to go to college because you want to learn than to get a piece of paper. The college experience shows that you can not only put up with HS bullshit, but that you are so adept at putting up with bullshit that you went back for another 4 years. It shows that you are hard to mold, but keep your shape when molded. Like a thick molding clay instead of molding out of mayo.
Better off to go also has to a lot to do with what a person's goal is. If their goal is to be self-serving their entire life they should probably avoid the whole school thing, it'll only interfere with that life goal. I want to actually do something with my life, and will pay the 30k in student loans to allow me to do so. Even though I'm only planning on becoming a guidance counselor and with teacher's wage will leave me paying my loan off til I'm 50 or something stupid like that :P
I won't become financially successful in life with my current goal but I'm bound to come across many other goals that are equally self-fulfilling while serving the public.
At 4/8/09 04:02 PM, NightCrawler wrote:
I on the other (while not needing to) like to go out and do stuff. So I guess that's where we might differ, which again, is cool.
I've found that for people who like to go out and do things, college is the answer. You can find a path that interests you, that makes your brain tick. I started thinking I would become a guidance counselor, now I'm considering helping to create green technologies, and being a comedian :P
Maybe a hippie comedian that helps teens through their problems. Who could hate on that? I could become a master producer like Dr. Dre...DJ Jiggle!
Nobody would mess with DJ Jiggle. I could like get out on stage, bass is pumping, lights are flashing, I come centerstage and do the Truffle Shuffle..apologize to everyone for the phobia of fat white guys they just discovered..heh. It'd be funny. Enjoy what you do whatever you do.