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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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no. its not ok to not go to college. you have to go to SOME kind of college to get ahead unless you want to do immigrant work your entire life, thats what made me go back to school when I was 21, I was absolutely sick of doing undocumented work.
the trick is that you don't have to go to some bullshit expensive 4 year, in fact you can get a lot more out of a good local community college or trade school. for example, at a local community college you can get a certificate program for clerical work which can give you an edge over the competition. In business today, the clincher is college PLUS years of experience. You can have college, but without experience yr fucked, and you can have experience, but without college yr fucked, and so get both. the catch is college you have to apply yourself for and work at, where as job experience tends to flow naturally over time without so much constant effort.
I say seriously look into going to some kind of school, if not 4year, at least for a trade. it will be the ABSOLUTE best thing you can do for yourself.
Even if you stay at walmart you will get better pay and advancement after you finish school.