I HATE college

[Knowdafish]

What potential does it limit? You potential to provide for your family, for others, for hobbies, for personal recreation? A job is a job, whether you work for yourself or you work for a company. The only real difference is who you report to, yourself or a manager. Who says that entrepreneurs do not live paycheck to paycheck? To an extent, everyone lives paycheck to paycheck at some time or another.

If your potential is being limited, it is not because of your job, it is because you are allowing your potential to be limited. In some aspects, not having to manage a business 24hrs a day could almost be a blessing. When I leave work, I leave it there. It does not enter my home life. When I get home, I do what I want to do and accomplish the personal goals that I choose to accomplish.

Now, we could sit around all day and get into Plato and Aristotle mode and discuss the intricacies of life. IMO, that is not what this is about. The question is a personal choice made by the OP. Should he or should he not continue/go to college. Realistically, the odds are in your favor if you do go. Stats will show that on average a personal with a college degree will make more money in their lifetime than a person without a degree. It is up to each person to choose how they want to move through life.

A job is a job, true, but working for yourself can be much more rewarding than just being a job! You can.....

1) Pick what kind of work you want to do, instead of being told what you are going to do while on a job.

2) Choose your own hours as in how many, when, and which days of the week, month, and year

3) Choose the location instead of being tied to an employers location and possibly a long commute

4) Choose your own salary (let's see you do that with an employer!) and decide how much you get to keep versus being taxed to death by the gov't! Yes, you can decide how much you are going to keep!!!

5) Choose what days you want to work and how much vacation time you want. How many employees can take a month off? Numerous months off? Go fishing when THEY want to instead of when their time off is "scheduled"? I'm sorry the company you work for limits your vacation time, and due to having a fixed salary also limits how far you can go on your vacation and how much money you can spend on your vacation!

6) Choose who you want to work with

7) Choose your customers

8) Choose how much money you give to charity. How many people do YOU know who can give 50% of their money to charity and still live very comfortably?

9) Choose when you want to take a break, and when you want to eat, and for how long

Yes, a job SEVERELY limits ones potential, and ones choices in life! Is your salary unlimited at your job? 7 figures? 8? I'm sorry the boss put a cap on your salary!

There are more self employed people, by far, making 7 figures and above then there are those that have a job! Do they all have a college degree? No! High school diploma? No! Would they have made more money by getting a degree? No! Not having a degree has helped make them what they are! It IS probably better for the average person to go to college if all they are planning is to go out and get a job, but that is not my point!!

Your last sentence hit the nail on the head! It IS up to the individual to decide what to do with their life and their choice towards an education, but getting a college degree and thinking it is your only ticket is a big mistake. Stats and averages only tell part of the story. Average is average. Average is being the best of the worst and the worst of the best. I choose to do and be better. I hope everyone makes the choice to be the best they can be and apply themselves, not just be stuck in the whole, "I gotta get a job" mentality. Why be average??? Why be like everyone else? Why be like the majority, when the vast majority are not successful??

"When I get home, I do what I want to do and accomplish the personal goals that I choose to accomplish."

Great! Me too! Some jobs don't allow that kind of flexibility, just as some businesses don't. It's all a matter of choice.

 

[chefjamesscott]

a quote from the above poster's second last post for brevity

What I learned the most was how a successful business operates and what it takes to have and run one.....which in my opinion is intelligence, balls, thinking outside the box, and being willing to do what the masses aren't willing to do, which is stick with it no matter what it takes!


This is what I was looking for especially the last sentance!!!!

If business is for you this is what you MUST take with you going into it!!!!

 

[nomad]

Being optional I think your main motivation for going to college should be interest in what you study . If financial growth it's your only drive then mastering a craft (welding, carpentry , etc.) or business ownership is a faster approach.

 

[Nabbig2]

Yes, 12 years of pre-college school sucks. Yes, even more college sucks. Just major in something you like, that's what I'm doing. I can guarantee you will be glad if you graduate college, it gives you a much better chance at having a sustainable income, and a good life.