What's Your Level of Education
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Another university/college drop-out here...
Dumb kid who started an engineering degree wanting to be an officer in the navy.... A combination of lectures on fluid mechanics, lots of partying and true freedom and responsibility soon changed that.
Fuck signing ya life away following someone else's orders. Fuck learning shit you don't have a passion for just to get a piece of paper - your passport straight into the ratrace.
Go to college/uni to study something you truly love and have a longing to know more about. Go to meet new people, experience new things and learn more about yourself.
For any of you still at school the best thing you can do is to go study away from home. Step outside of your comfort zone. Do your own laundry. Leave your place as shitty as you like. Smoke indoors - weed, crack, opium..? Deal with the inevitable OCD roommate - as an equal, not your parent. Miss your friends, but make new ones and have fuckin amazing times when you get the guys you've known since childhood partying with great people from the other side of the country, or the world.
I'm sure it's a bit different in the US than over here, but the difference between the cosy, safe small-town (suburb/city-block/village/penthouse/whatever) mentality and those who push themselves to experience new things is much greater than any differences in nationality or culture. Most of us end up somewhere in the middle, but it's those decisions you make when you are leaving school that really shape everything afterwards.
I made bad decisions - wrong course, wrong goal. I was bored stupid by the shit I was studying but I learnt so much about life. No regrets, but if I was 18 now I'd go further - physically and mentally. Go somewhere where I didn't know the language or culture - get high in Amsterdam or Bangkok rather than getting wasted in a place that seemed so different at the time, but really wasn't. It was just somewhere else. Spend time studying something I had a passion for rather than something I naively thought would lead to a good career and even more naively thought a good career was a worthwhile goal.
The world is so much smaller now than it was even a decade ago, and if you are your own boss while you're at school I envy you, you've got no fucking excuses.
What's that saying...? Youth is wasted on the young. Fuck, I feel old! (I'm only 30, but there's something about the late teens-early twenties that ya can't get back.)
Bollocks, another long fuckin post... Shame it's too late to enter the WebWriMo Challenge
Dumb kid who started an engineering degree wanting to be an officer in the navy.... A combination of lectures on fluid mechanics, lots of partying and true freedom and responsibility soon changed that.
Fuck signing ya life away following someone else's orders. Fuck learning shit you don't have a passion for just to get a piece of paper - your passport straight into the ratrace.
Go to college/uni to study something you truly love and have a longing to know more about. Go to meet new people, experience new things and learn more about yourself.
For any of you still at school the best thing you can do is to go study away from home. Step outside of your comfort zone. Do your own laundry. Leave your place as shitty as you like. Smoke indoors - weed, crack, opium..? Deal with the inevitable OCD roommate - as an equal, not your parent. Miss your friends, but make new ones and have fuckin amazing times when you get the guys you've known since childhood partying with great people from the other side of the country, or the world.
I'm sure it's a bit different in the US than over here, but the difference between the cosy, safe small-town (suburb/city-block/village/penthouse/whatever) mentality and those who push themselves to experience new things is much greater than any differences in nationality or culture. Most of us end up somewhere in the middle, but it's those decisions you make when you are leaving school that really shape everything afterwards.
I made bad decisions - wrong course, wrong goal. I was bored stupid by the shit I was studying but I learnt so much about life. No regrets, but if I was 18 now I'd go further - physically and mentally. Go somewhere where I didn't know the language or culture - get high in Amsterdam or Bangkok rather than getting wasted in a place that seemed so different at the time, but really wasn't. It was just somewhere else. Spend time studying something I had a passion for rather than something I naively thought would lead to a good career and even more naively thought a good career was a worthwhile goal.
The world is so much smaller now than it was even a decade ago, and if you are your own boss while you're at school I envy you, you've got no fucking excuses.
What's that saying...? Youth is wasted on the young. Fuck, I feel old! (I'm only 30, but there's something about the late teens-early twenties that ya can't get back.)
Bollocks, another long fuckin post... Shame it's too late to enter the WebWriMo Challenge
I dropped out of 10th grade.
Everything I know, I've taught myself. School taught me how to read, write, and spell.
If I knew then what I know now... lol
But I'm glad I grew out of my shit and decided to educate myself in some form, and I did so by reading and reading and reading and reading...
I've been on a computer since I was 10 and we had Dos...
If it wasn't for computers, and more specifically, the internet, I would be one of those retarded mechanic types that can't spell "mechanic"
lol
Everything I know, I've taught myself. School taught me how to read, write, and spell.
If I knew then what I know now... lol
But I'm glad I grew out of my shit and decided to educate myself in some form, and I did so by reading and reading and reading and reading...
I've been on a computer since I was 10 and we had Dos...
If it wasn't for computers, and more specifically, the internet, I would be one of those retarded mechanic types that can't spell "mechanic"
lol
College: UC Berkeley
I also have a graduate degree (too bashful to say which type)
Looking back, if I knew what my future career path would be (self-employment), I would have stressed less in school and partied more
Anyway, hindsight is always 20/20. It's not the amount of institutional education that counts. It's LIFE education that matters. Most of the smartest, kindest, and most helpful people I've had the pleasure of meeting didn't have formal educations. That says a lot right there.
I also have a graduate degree (too bashful to say which type)
Looking back, if I knew what my future career path would be (self-employment), I would have stressed less in school and partied more
Anyway, hindsight is always 20/20. It's not the amount of institutional education that counts. It's LIFE education that matters. Most of the smartest, kindest, and most helpful people I've had the pleasure of meeting didn't have formal educations. That says a lot right there.
3 Courses away from a degree in hotel/restaurant management. Was in NYC finishing up school and built a 6 figure business. Bored to death with school anyway so I just moved on.
A couple of times it has come back to bite me, mostly when I had corporate positions, but overall I should have left school 2 years earlier.
A couple of times it has come back to bite me, mostly when I had corporate positions, but overall I should have left school 2 years earlier.
I did Business Economics at UC Santa Barbara. I met a lot of my best friends there and had a lot of fun.
I have a BBA, in Management Information Systems, which was useful in its time. Now, of course, I don't do anything I learned to do in college, but I did enjoy it. It was 4 years to expand my world view, meet people from all over the place, and of course, learn to code (OK maybe I do something I learned in school, but not the same languages).
AA in auto tech, and now im a licensed and bonded contractor, now im trying to do some Affiliate Marketing. Im only 23 so im still really indecisive about what i want to do. Theres good steady money in being a contractor, but there seems to be a little better money on the interwebs.
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