<p>Or do you only associate with fellow nerds? I do.</p>
<p>You do what?</p>
<p>i do in answer to your original question in your heading...</p>
<p>i know people who dropped out of college, like my boyfriend</p>
<p>A lot of the people I associate with aren't in college. It's pretty pathetic. I don't advise it. Being in a band probably won't happen. You'll be stuck in an apartment drinking cheap beer every night for the rest of your life! It's like college life without the promise of a future hahaha.</p>
<p>Yes. </p>
<p>You dont have to go to college to be successful contrary to what most snooty people believe</p>
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<p>Or you can join a construction union and make as much or more than the engineers on the same job for doing manual labour in a half-assed fashion with breaks every hour and double time overtime. This is why it costs billions of dollars to build a bridge made from a few million$ of concrete btw.</p>
<p>Or drive a semi across America a few times a year and make close to 6 figures. Hell, if you can stand the boredom of burying your nose in a book for 9 hours, then you can surely tolerate that.</p>
<p>Or you can be a salesman at a high end stealership and make unconscienably bloated commissions.</p>
<p>Or just work your way up the old fashioned way.</p>
<p>Or get a degree and be unable to secure employment in a professional setting. There're no guarantees in life, son.</p>
<p>Bitter at the blue-collar much, bud?</p>
<p>Well for the most part to be successful in life in this generation you need a degree. </p>
<p>My dad didn't have a degree until a few years ago (he doesn't really need it for the position he has now), and he makes six figures in construction, but he constantly encourages me to go through college so i can try to avoid all the stress he has dealt with.</p>
<p>Most of the jobs listed above, think of all the sacrifices someone would have to make to be successful in those careers. My dad fell off a roof and broke his back at age 30. I was 1. He works constantly, often out of town. I would rather make a comfortable living with a degree in an office working 9 to 5 coming home to a family. Sorry.</p>
<p>Oh and my post was meant primarily as a joke. :) I'm not bitter.</p>
<p>I was referring to mr. football, jack.</p>
<p>Lol. Overpaid union workers comprise only a fraction of the blue collar workforce. There's not many unions in the south, I believe.</p>
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<p>Ya, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier to be successful if you did go to college</p>
<p>I actually have very few friends who are going to college. My parents (and most of their friends) never went to college, so I guess it just got passed down because I just don't get along with most of my fellow college-bound students. They're just not as much fun at my school. =[</p>
<p>No, I don't.
But that's only because I've moved and haven't kept in contact with my old friends. So all of my current friends I've met in college.</p>
<p>the majority of my friends dont go to college after hs.</p>
<p>Surprisingly many don't, considering that I went to an IB school.. They will probably start later though. A few will go try to carve a career in the military, some already dropped out and will start again later, many spent a year travelling (rich kids). </p>
<p>no stigma against that here in Norway, it's totally ok to work for 1-2 years to earn some cash/experience before studying, and many do.. although it could be easily argued that you'd earn much more the first year after your degree had you allocated your time that way. Considering that college is free here, I dunno why they do it. oh well, I guess money aint all ;-)</p>
<p>My two best friends dont. One went to some 6 month technical school/program, and is a mechanic, and the other dropped out like first semester at a terrible school.</p>
<p>But I know a few guys I play football with, who became elevator technicians right after college and they are now 22 and make close to 88K a year. So college oesnt always pay off. Those 2 will only have to work for 20 years, and can retire with a pension for life when they turn 38 or around 40. Seems like a pretty good deal to me.</p>
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<p>Nice. best sport imo.</p>