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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
I have been lead to believe that I "need" to go to college, I need to spend tons of money to do tons of work on nothing that particularly interests me... and I need to do it RIGHT NOW. Or in the near future.
I'm 20, I've been working at walmart for a year, making $8.80 an hour soon ($8.25 right now). I'm very skilled at computers, and I can actually type 149 words per minute. I was thinking of becoming a secretary... doing some kind of clerical work, something that wouldn't require college. So, I must ask of fellow sonic youth board members.. is it really okay to not go to college?
My girlfriend is going and she keeps pressuring me to go, because she thinks she's going to be a millionaire because she's studying chemistry. I constantly have to deflate her ego and explain to her that she may be going for chemistry but so are about a million other people and they're going to be competing for the same job as her.
I dunno.. I'm just at a crossroads of what I want to do, I work with some dudes who went to college and ended up working at walmart cuz they got paid more..
and even a guy I know who is serious about college has said that you're not going to be rich off of it, but you'll just probably end up doing a job you like a lot more than stocking, making about the same wage.. and if that's all it is, I don't think it's worth it.
What are your guys's views on college?
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dude you need to go to college. the reason everyone tells you to go sooner then later is because college requires you to take two years of bullshit, and it is good to get it over with. but first, you must figure out what it is you would like to do with your life. fuck walmart, fuck clerical, that is job, that is work. what is is that you REALLY want to do with your life? when you answer the question you can work college into the equation, but for whatever you could want to do, there is a college to attend. it is the only ticket out of poverty aside from basketball, rapping, and stealing.