How many of you are currently full time college students?

How many of you affiliate marketers are fulltime college students?

  • Attend a college fulltime

    Votes: 364 43.4%

  • Didnt go to college

    Votes: 65 7.7%

  • Graduated from college

    Votes: 252 30.0%

  • Went to college then dropped out

    Votes: 158 18.8%
  • Total voters
    839
I have a BA from a military school and post-graduate studies in Arabic (I intended to work for the government before discovering AM).

Now 3 years after post grad work and almost a year into being full time (as a Local SEO & AM primarily) I am going back to school for Computer Science. With a science-intensive background in my initial bachelors, I should have a second BS in about 2 years.

Eventually I may pursue an MBA here at Wharton, but that is mostly a feather-in-the-cap and networking venture. Not out of necessity.

I think it's been proven over and over again by people on this forum that you don't need a formal education in order to be really business savvy, really tech savvy, and be able to integrate both. The one constant is just that you have to learn. YMMV re how you get it done.
 


phillian said:
I have a BA from a military school and post-graduate studies in Arabic (I intended to work for the government before discovering AM).

Now 3 years after post grad work and almost a year into being full time (as a Local SEO & AM primarily) I am going back to school for Computer Science. With a science-intensive background in my initial bachelors, I should have a second BS in about 2 years.

Eventually I may pursue an MBA here at Wharton, but that is mostly a feather-in-the-cap and networking venture. Not out of necessity.

I think it's been proven over and over again by people on this forum that you don't need a formal education in order to be really business savvy, really tech savvy, and be able to integrate both. The one constant is just that you have to learn. YMMV re how you get it done.
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I lived around 45th and spruce, and more recently lived at 20th and chestnut. Frequented Smokey Joes and those bars around there . . . long live philly.
 
tvmatt said:
Without school, I would have never been able to have so much fun, drink so much beer, or use $40,000 cameras for videography on a daily basis.
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That's what I appreciated most about college, the resources. I was using a $250k laser camm, 3d printer, vacuum presses, cnc metal machines, and a bunch of other prototyping tools that I wouldn't have had access to otherwise. Without these machines and education I would be out of a joint patent and a lot of money, not including all the things I learned.

The beer was ok, everyone drank keystone and natty light for some stupid reason. I would always byob. :2drinkspit:
 
kidChaos said:
Part time undergrad.
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Reminds me I should add I'm part-timing it too. 7 ch/ semester.

onlinemoniez said:
I lived around 45th and spruce, and more recently lived at 20th and chestnut. Frequented Smokey Joes and those bars around there . . . long live philly.
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I live in the NW and will probably be moving to the NoLibs/ Fishtown area or way, way South Philly down by the South Philly Tap Room south of Passyunk this Spring. It's a crazy, dirty, crime-ridden, sports-obstinate city, but it's growing on me.
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Fuck teh college. If you want to work for someone else, go to teh college. It can teach you how to follow teh rules ehh ye know? If you want to own a business and make moves, work hard, network, and learn something new everyday. Going won't doing any harm but if you're in a race to make some monies while you're young or maybe you know you never want to work for someone else ever in your life, I'd say don't go. Shit, look at Wes from 202. He prolly smokes 100's and wipes his ass with them.

"Invest more time into yourself and your business than you do at your job"
 
I dropped out of high school.

Mainly, cause I didn't give a fuck. I was so fuckin badass I even had a custom wallet made

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I work a web design job and attend college full-time.
I have some time for AM.

I am debating on getting a CS degree...isn't this shit going to be outsourced?
 
Another college thread? Dig it up in shooting the shit instead of arguing whether college is useful or not. Everyone has different experience and opinion so it is pointless forcing your own point of view in to others. If you are smart, you'll find your own way.
 
Learning more and gaining an education is rarely a bad idea, but it's what you do with it later that matters. /truism
 
"See that Aston Martin when I start it hear the sound
I ain’t never graduated, I ain’t got no cap and gown
But the girls in my class who were smart enough to pass
Be at all my fucking parties, grabbing money off the ground"

while one of the best lyrics of the year yes, I graduated.
 
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