college dropout :(
By verolop29
@verolop29 (1096)
United States
September 18, 2011 8:08am CST
yes, it's true. I am a college dropout. I thought I'd have finished school but with how things are going, the econamy, jobs ect...my choice an associates degree in Business Arts, wasn't going to get me anywhere. Except in debt. I listened yesterday to the the news and heard that college studends are still looking for work and are in totle debt. Obama needs to do something. School shouldn't cost this much! I dont feel bad or anything about making this descision. With my work just picking up, i dont need a college degree to make it in the day and age. To make me feel better my Mark told me he was a college dropout too for a long time, but then he finished, thats not gonna be me. to make it in this world now, ud have to so certain things and not make any mistakes and if one does...clean up that mistake and PRONTO! FAST! I am a little bumbed out though...if i had taken a different route in JC then i would more than likely finish school. ahhh the what-if's lol!
what would u have done? if someone told u 10 yrs ago that u could get a good job making $18 an hr IF u went to college and graduated with an associates degree but 10 yrs later u cant because more and more college graduates are falling more into debt than ever before?
5 responses
@lologirl2021 (5541)
• United States
18 Sep 11
I did college for 2 years to get my AA in business like you want to do. I owe alot of money in college loans i was not able to get grants or anything like that because they said my family makes to much money and i was a dpenedant of them when i went to college. I still live at home and cant afford much and havent paid my college loans in a year because i dont have a good paying job and only work 3-4 days a week and its not enough to pay for everything i need plus my college loans as well. Its hard out there right now getting a job and im glad i even have a job right now because the unemployment rate where i live just went right back up and i wish i had more money to pay for college loans and maybe soon i will start paying them back as my car is now paid off and i can get those paid but it is very hard to pay for college loans when you dont have a good paying job.
@verolop29 (1096)
• United States
19 Sep 11
someone told me that i cant expect to get any kind of help like money for school or anything like that if im married to a man who makes a lot of money...i suppose the only way for me to do that is if i work outside the home but i dont know what to do. i heard on the news that ppl with an AA in business arn't expected to make it in this world. but im going to prove them WRONG! i can make it without going to school to further my education, ive read about antrapaurners(those super-young inventors) getting rich at a young age and they didn't even go to college. i heard u can read books and be just as smart..im gonna try that!
And YOU R SOOO right about that the part where u said "but its very hard to pay for college loands when u dont have a good paying job"
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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19 Sep 11
babe! you have to do whats best for you! at the end of the day if you feel you are able to study, and struggle with the debt and get a good job at the end of it thats different.. but if you dont know that for sure, and all you can think about is what if i get into this debt and things dont get better or i cant get a job etc.. then whats the point? life is too short to get yourself down and stressed!! especially over money!!
@wmraul (2552)
• Bucharest, Romania
18 Sep 11
You got wrong advisors.
First when someone influenced you to follow the assoc. biz path.
Second one when you got decision to leave, accepting that you lost years for nothing and accepting being defeated by the system.
What system?
This system:
Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they don’t want . . . they don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f**ked by a system that threw them overboard 30 f**kin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh*ttier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ
However, is not to late.
I know, you are going to say "but what should I study, how can I know what will be required 10 years from now?"
Is simple: follow the studying path of those spoiled childs of very big names (= companies, owners, bank CEOs, politicians, this kinda people's childs).
Also you can find interesting facts while reading Henry Thoreau's Civil Disobedience.
@TeamCholent (2832)
• United States
18 Sep 11
I myself have a college degree, never had any debt and now currently working on my post grad and earning a living. By no means am I earning an amazing salary but I can survive off it and the potential for growing is there. I have to say having a degree helps one stand out there but it is not the only thing one needs. One needs experience and also the right attitude. The best thing to do is to start college on a part time basis while working so you not only get a better education, you can afford to pay for it while gaining valuable work experience. Don't rely on Obama, he economic policies are a bit too left wing to stimulate any real growth in this economy and create more jobs and many colleges now in the US are becoming money and power hungry and will charge crazy prices for their education. More and more people are shifting their education to online locations.
Best of luck with whatever the future brings your way.
@Zamara69 (130)
• United States
19 Sep 11
I agree with you I would drop out too. I would rather work hard at two jobs then save and invest my money than working hard to get good grades and be in debt. If you're smart with your money you will come out ahead then with a college degree.
Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and many master minds never said you needed a college degree.
