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 do go to university because I have

a) Money to make
b) Bitches to fuck
c) Cars to drive
d) Degree to earn
e) Alcohol to drink
f) Mates to live with
g) Football to watch
h) Clubs to visit
 
You're setting up a false dichotomy. I've multiple undergraduate and undergraduate degrees. And yes I am damned proud of it because it took alot of fucking work!!

Did I also mention I'm semi retiring 2 weeks from Wednesday to write a book (you can check how long I've been here started in the n00b section in May of 2007) in small surfing village off the coast of [name of foreign country].

School was the best experience of my life - as it was for alot of risk-taking successful entrepreneurs I kick it with. Wouldn't trade it for all the acai berry circa 2008 keywords in the world.

What I said before still stands. If you can combine an education from THE RIGHT SCHOOL FOR YOU with the practical stuff you may learn being an entrepreneur, you really do become untouchable.....

It's like an old say...

The only thing better then money is.....LOTS OF MONEY....the only thing better then LOTS OF MONEY is....LOTS OF OLD MONEY

I'm saying this because alot of young folks might be reading this and they shouldn't be swayed in the wrong direction.....

A lot of people have who don't finish school or who go to school end up with a chip on their shoulders or silently insecure because they dropped out just a few weeks before graduation....that isn't to say all college drop outs are "losers" but my father aways said "don't start something you can't/won't finish!"

You should use the advanced search function to search older threads about this....in fact read the advice of the founder of this forum (a college drop out...or business drop in as I like to call it, lol).....read what he says and HIS ADVICE IS STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO WHAT 50 CENT SAID....

Damn, what did I say that made you start writing ad copy?
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To the people who replied, "Went to college then dropped out", why is that? The reason I'm asking is because college can be such a great experience (social-wise) especially if you have the money to enjoy yourself (and even if you never plan on using what you studied).

I was a high school dropout trying to pay my own way through college. It was also before I got into online marketing, before most did.
 
Take it from someone who is many years out of college: You probably won't be able to use 95% of the stuff you learn in college, but you will never have license to have as much fun as those four years you are in it.

Enjoy college. Especially enjoy that first year or two of living in a dorm. lol You'll understand why later in life.

And unless you are making more than $3,000 a month and you have a real plan to grow a business that you can sell, try to do summer internships at real companies to get REAL work experience in a chosen field.

Again... ENJOY COLLEGE!!!!!!!!

You will never again have that many young and hot co-eds around you and so little expected of you.
 
Take it from someone who is many years out of college: You probably won't be able to use 95% of the stuff you learn in college, but you will never have license to have as much fun as those four years you are in it.

Enjoy college. Especially enjoy that first year or two of living in a dorm. lol You'll understand why later in life.

And unless you are making more than $3,000 a month and you have a real plan to grow a business that you can sell, try to do summer internships at real companies to get REAL work experience in a chosen field.

Again... ENJOY COLLEGE!!!!!!!!

You will never again have that many young and hot co-eds around you and so little expected of you.

Words of wisdom right there.
 
Attending full time college right now and constantly question if it's the right decision as AM cannot be taught in college, and this is what I plan on doing until I pull every last dollar out of it.
 

This was one of the most intriguing talks I've heard in a long time, Sir Ken Robinson is truly a forward-thinker and we need more people like him. Although I haven't dropped out of college just yet, I've always been of the opinion that our system of education is a big farce and a prehistoric concept.

Firstly, how exactly that any subject you could wish to study takes exactly 4 years to learn? It's a business, that's how.. The focus is no longer on the individual (was it ever?) but on the success of the "business" among other things. The post secondary education we have is like a big factory conveyor belt where unique individual materials are inserted and by the time they reach the other end are transformed into a one-size fits all replica ready for mass distribution.

I've been in school for quite some time now, and at this point it would be wasteful to not stick through one more year to get that piece of paper at least. But I just can't take the classes seriously anymore, even the challenging ones, it really is just learning for learning's sake... Inefficient and mostly ineffective learning at that.

I don't believe we're able to flourish at our best when we get stuffed into a square box, that still smells like the last guys fart, and wake up 40 years later to find out that our promise of freedom was a big hoax. I know school isn't necessarily the extreme, but it's a beginning to an end and in most cases the classic 'snowball effect' hits the further along you are., and many ideas that once seemed real are now unrealistic and only childish dreams. So for those of us who are still serving that 4-year sentence, beware of falling into that trap and remember what you REALLY want ;)
 
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This was one of the most intriguing talks I've heard in a long time, Sir Ken Robinson is truly a forward-thinker and we need more people like him. Although I haven't dropped out of college just yet, I've always been of the opinion that our system of education is a big farce and a prehistoric concept.

Firstly, how exactly that any subject you could wish to study takes exactly 4 years to learn? It's a business, that's how.. The focus is no longer on the individual (was it ever?) but on the success of the "business" among other things. The post secondary education we have is like a big factory conveyor belt where unique individual materials are inserted and by the time they reach the other end are transformed into a one-size fits all replica ready for mass distribution.

I've been in school for quite some time now, and at this point it would be wasteful to not stick through one more year to get that piece of paper at least. But I just can't take the classes seriously anymore, even the challenging ones, it really is just learning for learning's sake... Inefficient and mostly ineffective learning at that.

I don't believe we're able to flourish at our best when we get stuffed into a square box, that still smells like the last guys fart, and wake up 40 years later to find out that our promise of freedom was a big hoax. I know school isn't necessarily the extreme, but it's a beginning to an end and in most cases the classic 'snowball effect' hits the further along you are., and many ideas that once seemed real are now unrealistic and only childish dreams. So for those of us who are still serving that 4-year sentence, beware of falling into that trap and remember what you REALLY want ;)

Nice fucking post man :thumbsup:
 
Take it from someone who is many years out of college: You probably won't be able to use 95% of the stuff you learn in college, but you will never have license to have as much fun as those four years you are in it.

Enjoy college. Especially enjoy that first year or two of living in a dorm. lol You'll understand why later in life.

And unless you are making more than $3,000 a month and you have a real plan to grow a business that you can sell, try to do summer internships at real companies to get REAL work experience in a chosen field.

Again... ENJOY COLLEGE!!!!!!!!

You will never again have that many young and hot co-eds around you and so little expected of you.

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Yes, I am currently enrolled at the University of Texas. I just got an acceptance letter from McCombs (like 5 hours ago actually, haha) which will allow me to follow the MPA (Masters in Professional Accounting) course.

I've had some of the greatest times of my life so far doing it, too. I feel like the information I'll be learning (Accounting) can be used fucking everywhere, so I think that will set me to go wherever I want.

Someone mentioned them pushing you towards a middle Management position after you graduate. Yes, that's what they do because it looks good for their program, and is why it is one of the best in the country, as job placement for their students is key for a program to be recognized. But I don't plan to do any of that bull shit. I'm gonna learn what I need, finish up, and bounce and go my own way.

Hopefully if I can master AM and some of these other skills while I'm finishing my degrees, Ill be set to start some other ventures somewhere else, who knows. I think those accounting skills will be invaluable for wherever I go though.

And the whole time I'm gonna be partying my ass off. It's all about time management. I know when to party and when to study, its as simple as that.

Ill be studying abroad, too. Thinking either Italy or Prague this coming semester or in the summer. Should be some more good times.

So I'm gonna take another rip of my bong and look forward to all that's to come. Peace.
 
I have more job offers/moneymaking opportunities/free schedule than anyone I know in college (I live with a bunch of college friends). Until that stops, no college.
 
"Full time" PhD student. I quote full-time because I finished my coursework, so all I am supposed to be doing is finishing my dissertation; i.e., sitting in front of my computer all-day doing what I (want to) do. I should just outsource this fucking thing - anyone know any good content writers for a long-term project :)