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I wish I had instead of staying
the regret I have is that if I had a college degree I would have gotten promoted faster at my job and had to pay less dues.
people with college degrees also have opportunities to get jobs that are above my pay grade job that are not offered to me even though they may be less qualified.
I’ve known plenty of people who somehow graduated college (often cheating on tests and papers. I’m looking at you, USC grads), and are fucking stupid as fuck.
The NFL? Sure, those players 'graduated' from college and still can't read or write. Making a lot of money though, playing a kid's game.
never too lateI dropped out three-quarters of my first year through IT studies when I was seventeen. I just couldn’t get my head around Programming and Code at the time so I switched to System Support. I didn’t have the passion for it and I was dealing with quite severe social anxiety and other behavioural issues at the time.
I don’t regret dropping off that path but I wish that I could turn back time and find another path through college instead, especially whilst it was free.
I did some distance learning when I was 25, with the Open University and got myself a Cert HE in Natural Sciences. Same thing happened. Depression, Social Anxiety, Social Isolation and living in an absolute dive with poor equipment and just a dongle for internet. I couldn’t get the group meetings to work either. I wanted to see it all the way through, but I applied for the Royal Navy instead as I felt like it would have been a far better solution for my problems (a full career, sports, friends, travel etc), and stopped once I got the Cert HE. Navy didn’t work out due to me failing a medical (childhood epilepsy was treated late).
I’ve always respected acedemics and I’ve always wanted to be one. I have a poor short-term memory however and my willpower for doing things that I don’t really want to do is low.
I regret not shutting myself away in libraries after school and not doing better at high school, as I need that structure to be able to fully focus. I also wish that I didn’t put so much time into video games and stayed away from my old homes for the most part.
I dropped out.
I was dealing with a lot of bullshit. I had put myself into some grief and then my father got cancer,and then my grandmother. All that stuff tied together led me to valuing my shitty no future Job as a restaurant manager and binge drinking more than my education.
After a lot of stuff happened I am now in a much better position and I wish I actually got some paper because where I am at now just some paper would open lots of doors where now I have to pry them open. Which I have been doing but it would have been a lot easier the other way.
yes I agree i like the story of the YouTube millionaire etc.. but in my experience everybody who got paper are living much better lives financially or their schedules make up the differenceShit like this is common and can really put a halt in one's education. That's why I dont listen to cocky pricks who look down on folks that didn't complete college.
Every situation is different.
never too late
High school drop out checking in
High School, they asked me to leave due to behavior..
never too late
my advice would be to keep working if you have a good job but keep an open mind to a career that interests you and then only if your ready to commit 100 go for itYeah, but it will be waiting for a few years at least.
I was able to get a better job last year and my primary focus has been saving money, followed by travel. Years of living in bedsits whilst working minimum wage have given me the skill of budgeting, so I'm able to save at least 20% of my pay check a month, which is nice.
I'm still thinking about my next step.