College Next Year...

[sgtryan]

SgtRyan's Fuck College Get Money Plan:

1. Get the bare minimum grades needed for your major/requirements
2. Leave harder classes towards the end of your 4-year plan
3. Major in something that interests you so it isn't 100% boring/useless
4. Make friends/network with AMers/fuck lots of college chicks while you are there
5. Bust your fucking ass on AM
6. If you achieve success in AM to the point where you can safely drop out, DROP OUT.. otherwise, get your degree (safety net)

 

[guesswho]

Your young, get some education done now and dont worry about it for the rest of your life. Money can come and go, your diploma/degree will stay with you forever. In reality, a diploma/degree is not going to get you very far, these days it will MAYBE get you a decent job but at least you are some what educated. Going to school for web development/web design I would totally forget about it - Maybe a course or two to get your feet wet with whats going on, it is better to self teach yourself but in most cases when you want graphics done, you will hire a graphic designer, when you want development done you will hire a web developer, you just need to know basics as to whats going on and how to tweak little shit yourself, these days you can get freelancers to do shit for you so cheap your time is better spent doing other things.

I went to U of T, did a BBA and majored in Accounting. Started playing around with the web in first year, self taught myself practically everything I know about building sites, html, php, seo etc etc - I knew I was never going to go work as a bitch for any of those accounting firms but I figured it cant hurt to do a BBA - I was pretty young, wanted to have a good time to so was just fucking around, learnt some shit, do my own taxes etc now, accounting isnt very hard for the most part, there are some complex things that come up but its bullshit you will never use in your life - At the same time if you build your own business you are not going to do your own accountant you are going to hire one (I am in the process of finding one myself, I cant deal with this shit) but it gave me the knowledge to track shit and get shit off the ground in my first few years when I was bootstrapping.

Its definitely a good social thing to go to college/university, you will meet a lot of people and have a great time. Started U of T when I was 17, was done by 21.

 

[negro2k]

 

[bbleo]

Good to hear that you are willing to work for your studies. But you should not take semester off, there are thousand of students working along with their studies, I think.

I plan to take the second semester off to work full time in order to pay for college.

 

[MaxSteve]

Your young, get some education done now and dont worry about it for the rest of your life. Money can come and go, your diploma/degree will stay with you forever. In reality, a diploma/degree is not going to get you very far, these days it will MAYBE get you a decent job but at least you are some what educated. Going to school for web development/web design I would totally forget about it - Maybe a course or two to get your feet wet with whats going on, it is better to self teach yourself but in most cases when you want graphics done, you will hire a graphic designer, when you want development done you will hire a web developer, you just need to know basics as to whats going on and how to tweak little shit yourself, these days you can get freelancers to do shit for you so cheap your time is better spent doing other things.

I agree with much of what is written above. Being an older guy (compared to most here), it'll probably sound like shit your dad would say.

Self-made people are few and far between. While it may look like the majority of people who try internet marketing succeed because there are so many posters here who have, it's a tough business in which to succeed. For every successful poster you read here, there are probably 50 of them who've tried and given up and you don't hear from them. Either they didn't have the capital, the methodology, the patience, the analytical skills, the perseverence, the work ethic or the knowledge. Something was missing that prevented them from making it big.

You may or may not have all the above to succeed. You could be the next internet millionaire, or the next internet failure.

Getting post-secondary education will give you two things. First will be those skills I listed above. While the subject you study doesn't necessarily matter in the long run (I am not in the field I studied), studying the subject and getting a diploma will definitely help you develop the skills I listed above. Second thing you'll get is something to fall back on. If this internet marketing thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to fall back on. While you might not like having a 9-5 job, what would you prefer: flipping burgers or something that'll do more to pay your bills?

Final piece of advice I'd give: study something that can actually get you a jobm but also something that you like. Enjoying what you are studying will make it more likely that you apply yourself fully and develop the real skills that will make you a success in the future.

 

[buckeyefan]

go for finance. Having an understanding of investing and money is definitely a good thing to have. You also will take 2-4 accounting courses, so you will have knowledge with that as well.

If you dont like math dont do finance . Finance is my background and i love math but i hate accounting .

 

[Berto]

Note that after your first successful job or business, if you play things right, nobody will EVER ask for your college transcript ever again.

 

[dschus]

I haven't legimately lol'd in a long time.

Thank you, sir.

 

[Staccs]

I appreciate the responses a lot.

To address some of the comments;

- When high school starts (less than a week) I will be going into guidance to get my courses changed for my final semester as currently I'm signed up for things I have no interest, or use for, like physics. As it stands now I am also signed up for an accounting class, and another business class. I am going to try and keep my accounting class in place to test it out and see if it is something I'd be interested in for college. Also, if possible, I will drop physics and try to pick up the grade 12 programming class as I believe I have already completed the prerequisite. Best case scenario, my next semester looks like Math - Accounting - Computer Programming. Due to class schedules and timing, I may not be that lucky, but who knows.

- Yes there are students working while in college, and I will probably be one of them, but I will not be attending any college (assuming I get accepted) until Sept. 2011. I need money I don't have to enroll yet and yes, I know about loans and will likely be using them.

After this thread, it seems I am even more unsure as to what to major in. Accounting, Business/Entrepreneurial, Computer Sciences/Programming. Personally, I'd rather minor in Comp Sci than take it as a major. I like it, and I pick up on it fairly easy (based on my grade 10 experience) but I'm not a fan of the atmosphere. My business classes in highschool have been extremely easy, but at the end of the semester I only end up knowing a few memorized business definitions. Accounting, I'll have to find out how I feel about it this semester.

Thanks again for the great responses.