Leaving school for financial reasons

[Justanobody]

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Most people who stop “temporarily” never return.

Right. If I went ahead with this, I would fully intend not to return to school.</p>

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It’s really bad timing if the rest of the country is returning to school during the economic crisis to gain better credentials or learn more skills. You’re putting yourself out of contention.

Learning more skills isn’t an issue for me. I do that in my free time anyway. So the only benefit I see to attending school is having a university backing what I say I can do. I don’t see why that’s necessary. If I’m able to do something, I’m fully capable of demonstrating it myself.</p>

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You’ll be the line supervisor who never gets promoted while young brats move up over and out. You’ll be in the corner yelling shoulda coulda woulda. You always know deep down that you’re a quitter. So will your peers and your employers. You won’t get the sweet developer projects because there will be real engineers and programmers who can do it better. You won’t get the pay.

Is this really how the rest of the world views people without college degrees? That’s horrible. It’s unfortunate that people don’t realize that some people can learn on their own.</p>