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Curiousgeorge22
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Dropping out of College
#14231401 - 04/03/11 02:35 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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I am really considering dropping out of college. I'm a freshman and will probally have a 2.2-2.4 gpa at the end of my first year. I just feel as if college may not be for me. Im a psych major and a B.A in psych seems pointless unless i go to graduate school. School also costs me about 20k a year. Learning feels like a chore. I am scared to drop out though since society has taught us that college is needed. If i drop out i plan to learn real estate and work on websites, photography, and art in addition to a starter job. Is there anybody here on the Shroomery that has dropped out and made a good living for themselves?
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Fuck college, go to a trade school and learn a trade welders plumbers carpenters will always be needed they all pay very well.
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I was expelled and I'm not doing so badly. Unemployment has been helping a lot seeing as how I worked 30-40 hours a day (+ going to school) when I was 16-19 and have a lot of $ saved up.
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: Humility]
#14231440 - 04/03/11 02:46 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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mushroom farms?
thats better than my crack farm idea
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: Humility]
#14231462 - 04/03/11 02:53 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Its for some people, and not for others. I personally want to go back to college, but not everybody wants a complex high end job you know? Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying trade jobs are for stupid people or anything, but not everybody likes to use their minds when at work for work. Granted someday I would like to be in a lab or office studying advanced technology, but the job I do now I can just sit back and just think; sort out my thoughts and get paid for simple work.
Different strokes for different folks, find what makes you happy, not what you think will.
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Curiousgeorge22 said: I am really considering dropping out of college. I'm a freshman and will probally have a 2.2-2.4 gpa at the end of my first year. I just feel as if college may not be for me. Im a psych major and a B.A in psych seems pointless unless i go to graduate school. School also costs me about 20k a year. Learning feels like a chore. I am scared to drop out though since society has taught us that college is needed. If i drop out i plan to learn real estate and work on websites, photography, and art in addition to a starter job. Is there anybody here on the Shroomery that has dropped out and made a good living for themselves?
I had the same trouble as you. I hated to study and it made my college experience very hard.
I dropped out, worked at Wendy's, lived in a shit hole, began to hang out with local failures and bums and became miserable. Thats when I realized I was going to finish college no matter what. And I did graduate.
Now I can be an officer in the Navy and I will start out at a rank of E-3.
I wouldnt stay in school if you are going to screw off and fail upcomming classes. That would be a waste. You should drop out and feel what its like to work low paying jobs or any job you could get. Maybe you will find a good job and forget school or maybe you will be shocked and decide to go back to school.
If you can manage to pass and graduate I would definatly stay and do that. Its nice to have a degree! I would also study something you love. I started studying something I hated and it was too late to change it when I figured out what I really loved. Follow your passion. Find a major you can get interested in.
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: XUL]
#14231488 - 04/03/11 02:59 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Curiousgeorge22 said: I am really considering dropping out of college. I'm a freshman and will probally have a 2.2-2.4 gpa at the end of my first year. I just feel as if college may not be for me. Im a psych major and a B.A in psych seems pointless unless i go to graduate school. School also costs me about 20k a year. Learning feels like a chore. I am scared to drop out though since society has taught us that college is needed. If i drop out i plan to learn real estate and work on websites, photography, and art in addition to a starter job. Is there anybody here on the Shroomery that has dropped out and made a good living for themselves?
I had the same trouble as you. I hated to study and it made my college experience very hard.
I dropped out, worked at Wendy's, lived in a shit hole, began to hang out with local failures and bums and became miserable. Thats when I realized I was going to finish college no matter what. And I did graduate.
Now I can be an officer in the Navy and I will start out at a rank of E-3.
I wouldnt stay in school if you are going to screw off and fail upcomming classes. That would be a waste. You should drop out and feel what its like to work low paying jobs or any job you could get. Maybe you will find a good job and forget school or maybe you will be shocked and decide to go back to school.
If you can manage to pass and graduate I would definatly stay and do that. Its nice to have a degree! I would also study something you love. I started studying something I hated and it was too late to change it when I figured out what I really loved. Follow your passion. Find a major you can get interested in.
This here. I tried college and wasn't motivated, but when I started at my current job, even my first day I was like "it all makes sense, this is why people go to college!". Ever since I've been busting ass and trying to save money for it. My motivation is knowing that my hard work will pay off in the long run and ill own the very environment I was raised in.
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I dropped out for a while, had a lucrative job at the time (prior to the housing market collapse).
Here's the deal... the real value of college is the education itself. There's a rock solid correlation between education and happiness, even for the people who don't go work in their field, who don't get the badass job they hoped for. I told myself that I would self-educate when I first dropped out, but very few people really do that, at least for a significant amount of time. I didn't do a good job. I did, however, land a job that many college graduates competed for and I made great money for my age, but at the end of the day money is never enough. Once you get out of debt you start investing. No matter how much you have invested, it never feels like enough. You spend your whole life working for a living that you never actually appreciate.
It sounds to me like you're in college for the wrong reasons. Your major is worthless, your tuition is ridiculous (easy for me to say, I go to the one of the highest ranked community colleges in the country), your GPA is dogshit, so I can see why you're thinking about dropping out.
This might sound like bullshit to you (it would have to me four years ago): If you do drop out, I hope for your own sake that one day you get your shit together and go back for the right reasons, with a desire to learn rather than a desire to get grades that lead to a degree that leads to a job.
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scrantonstrangler said: also, theres plenty of things you could do without college, however the road to success is much smoother with that paper endorsement. and those things require at least job training. technical school or something. I tried the other way, but endless you work 2-3 time harder then everyone chances are you will be passed over for promotion. this is just my experience.
I see your a new member! Welcome to our humble abode
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College is a place you go to make it easier to compete in the shrinking job market by adding a big 'hire me' to your resume. If you think you can do better on your own than in college and you WILL CONTINUE TO DO WELL without an institution's guidance, then you will be okay. But you have to be motivated enough, and the anwser can't be any half-assed 'I dont like to study'.
Dont be afraid, college is just an institution, and a degree in the end is just a piece of paper with words on it. Simplified, but you can make a good living for yourself just by knowing what you want to do and getting it.
Art, photography.... no money in it really. not right off the bat at least. Dont let your energy get sucked away by a job, dont blow all your money on weed, invest in something you want to do. Buy a nice camera and go get a nice portfolio, but you have to put in the time that you would going through college, otherwise you are dropping out because you are lazy and thats a shitty reason to stop doing anything that is ultimately an opportunity. You have to push, and if you enjoy doing something enough you will be okay.
Hope that helped, my two cents.
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: Hajnal]
#14231541 - 04/03/11 03:11 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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College is pointless without desire. You may get a degree, but if you don't have the passion behind the degree and believe in what you went for, someone else will be picked instead of you for that job you need. Why? Because he WANTS it and you just need it. If you believe in what you do you'll go places 
Despite the emoticon I'm serious :x
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: Hajnal]
#14231546 - 04/03/11 03:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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For me, it was a combination of a year and a half of some of the most mind-numbingly boring work imaginable with some of the most obnoxious, neurotic people imaginable, capped-off with a day in jail over some mushrooms. "This is why people go to school!" 
Been pretty type-A about my academic experience ever since then.
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: Hajnal]
#14231547 - 04/03/11 03:13 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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just follow your passion, man. you'll be fine
a lot of people aren't really that in-touch with their passion and just do thangs cuz they think that's the way they're supposed to be done
but when u look inside and figure out what it is u wanna do in life, you'll be set
and you don't need a life goal either. just do what is most exciting to you AT THIS MOMENT
for me it's eating mint brownie icecream, and then probably start making some music later tonight
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: Drewwyann]
#14231551 - 04/03/11 03:14 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Questions
Are you paying to put yourself through school? Is anyone helping you out? Loans?
If you are putting yourself through it is DAMN hard to do and will make your hair fall out. But this shows motivation, which means you would probably make it just fine if you dropped out, invested the money the right way and found your own path.
If some one else is paying for it... STAY IN SCHOOL
If it is a loan, DONT GO TO ART SCHOOL
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: Drewwyann]
#14231589 - 04/03/11 03:23 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Drewwyann said: Questions
Are you paying to put yourself through school? Is anyone helping you out? Loans?
If you are putting yourself through it is DAMN hard to do and will make your hair fall out. But this shows motivation, which means you would probably make it just fine if you dropped out, invested the money the right way and found your own path.
If some one else is paying for it... STAY IN SCHOOL
If it is a loan, DONT GO TO ART SCHOOL
My parents pay for it....
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: XUL]
#14231610 - 04/03/11 03:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Curiousgeorge22 said: I am really considering dropping out of college. I'm a freshman and will probally have a 2.2-2.4 gpa at the end of my first year. I just feel as if college may not be for me. Im a psych major and a B.A in psych seems pointless unless i go to graduate school. School also costs me about 20k a year. Learning feels like a chore. I am scared to drop out though since society has taught us that college is needed. If i drop out i plan to learn real estate and work on websites, photography, and art in addition to a starter job. Is there anybody here on the Shroomery that has dropped out and made a good living for themselves?
I had the same trouble as you. I hated to study and it made my college experience very hard.
I dropped out, worked at Wendy's, lived in a shit hole, began to hang out with local failures and bums and became miserable. Thats when I realized I was going to finish college no matter what. And I did graduate.
Now I can be an officer in the Navy and I will start out at a rank of E-3.
I wouldnt stay in school if you are going to screw off and fail upcomming classes. That would be a waste. You should drop out and feel what its like to work low paying jobs or any job you could get. Maybe you will find a good job and forget school or maybe you will be shocked and decide to go back to school.
If you can manage to pass and graduate I would definatly stay and do that. Its nice to have a degree! I would also study something you love. I started studying something I hated and it was too late to change it when I figured out what I really loved. Follow your passion. Find a major you can get interested in.
become an officer and start out at e3?
u sound confused
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: pfxtc]
#14231629 - 04/03/11 03:33 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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pfxtc said:
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XUL said:
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Curiousgeorge22 said: I am really considering dropping out of college. I'm a freshman and will probally have a 2.2-2.4 gpa at the end of my first year. I just feel as if college may not be for me. Im a psych major and a B.A in psych seems pointless unless i go to graduate school. School also costs me about 20k a year. Learning feels like a chore. I am scared to drop out though since society has taught us that college is needed. If i drop out i plan to learn real estate and work on websites, photography, and art in addition to a starter job. Is there anybody here on the Shroomery that has dropped out and made a good living for themselves?
I had the same trouble as you. I hated to study and it made my college experience very hard.
I dropped out, worked at Wendy's, lived in a shit hole, began to hang out with local failures and bums and became miserable. Thats when I realized I was going to finish college no matter what. And I did graduate.
Now I can be an officer in the Navy and I will start out at a rank of E-3.
I wouldnt stay in school if you are going to screw off and fail upcomming classes. That would be a waste. You should drop out and feel what its like to work low paying jobs or any job you could get. Maybe you will find a good job and forget school or maybe you will be shocked and decide to go back to school.
If you can manage to pass and graduate I would definatly stay and do that. Its nice to have a degree! I would also study something you love. I started studying something I hated and it was too late to change it when I figured out what I really loved. Follow your passion. Find a major you can get interested in.
become an officer and start out at e3?
u sound confused
I said I 'can' become an officer. I am chosing not to because you cant become an officer and see any action as a rescue swimmer. I understand that officers are typically the people who train and instruct rescue swimmer what to do. I want to be the man who goes into action. I am entering as enlisted with a rank of e-3 thanks to college.
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Re: Dropping out of College [Re: XUL]
#14231653 - 04/03/11 03:37 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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oh alright
you'd make like 10x more money as an officer 
but if u want action thats the way to go, make sure you're in shape though man or youll get reclassed into some shit job
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