<p>listen to saracenmonk. He's right. the way he pointed out how to not look at college like its part of some type of checklist is key. If you really are bent on becoming rich, then college should be the place where you find a group of like-minded individuals that you can bounce ideas off of, or start businesses with. My friend at University of connecticut studies comp science and has a 3.85 GPA and while college might get him a decent job afterwards, he's already launched his own consulting company, along with at least 4 for profit websites that will most likely generate $150,000+ in profit. He is always networking and always trying to improve the quality of life for others in ways he can profit off of. Sure this advice is strictly anecdotal and im sure many of you have stories of kids that make the one in my example look like he's missing a couple chromosomes. But if you make the best of college, and use your 4 years shaping a constructive environment that gets you to think more entrepeneurial if wealth is your final goal instead of just focusing on academics or partying or grad school admission, you will be successful.</p>
<p>Not sure which God you are talking about - the God I follow does not give you talent to make you rich but to serve and glorify Him. Unless you are blessed with the gift of giving and plan to give away the vast fortune?</p>
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Dolly lenz (a prominent real estate associate broker) was an accountant before working with Prudential Douglas Elliman (nations leading luxury real estate brokerage). She wasn't making as much as she wanted so she did several cash flow projects on the side (the process of buying a property and renting it out as a higher price than your mortgage payments to create residual income). After she found that she was doing so well...she went off to get licensed in real estate (I am also licensed, it is a VERY easy process, I did it over the summer.) last year she made approximately 6.9 million dollars. From her real estate license...something that you don't have to go to college to get. I HAVE ONE. I COULD DO WHAT SHE DID AND I DO NOT HAVE MY COLLEGE DEGREE YET.
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Don't stifle your creativity and your income possibilities by following whatever message has been programmed into your heads
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Use the gifts that God has given you and make a wonderful life for yourself. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. comment? questions? let me know...
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<p>Yeah, I have a question for the OP...</p>
<p>You know, I'm not going to bother reading a full five pages of posts, most likely 1/4 of which have no line breaks. For some reason, I'm just not in the mood for stuff like that.</p>
<p>But I would like to know if it's been discussed how being a Real Estate agent (as the OP totes proudly) is excerising your creativity or "thinking outside of the box"?</p>
<p>My dad is a Real Estate agent, and he's not especially creative. He also tends to enjoy doing what people tell him to do.</p>
<p>And somehow when I bring up this point, the thread dies.</p>
<p>Does anyone have an answer?</p>
<p>Being a successful real estate agent requires doing many things well--not just what people tell you. The ones that make real money are tapping into technology in order to better generate and serve clients, they work very hard, and they have to handle all sorts of problems that crop up on many sales before they get closed. That can mean some creative problem solving--it's not rocket science but neither is I Banking.</p>
<p>This is no excuse to decline college however. If you look at all the top execs, you would see that most of them graduated from the most prestigious universities. Yes, aim high and if you've got the perseverance and the lack of pretentiousness (many annoying people in this thread claiming "Oh no!! 500k isn't enough!! I must live in a 50k home that costs millions!! Money is everything ooo.o.o.!!), I hope you succeed. A college education aids your future and opens your mind to many opportunities. AND let's FACE IT: if you're wasting your time here arguing every counter and not focusing on your schoolwork and have hopes of making it big in the future, chances are, you won't. It's harsh but I hope this TRUTH gets some people to take action and hopefully achieve some of their dreams.</p>
<p>Althought I agree with many of "TheTruths" points, I advocate going to college for networking and having something to fall back on if your entrepreneurship fails.</p>
<p>Being rich would be nice, but I'm content with having a job I like and being able to provide for my children and grandchildren. Being able to live comfortably is enough for me.</p>
<p>(It's Marx time)</p>
<p>Ah capitalism . . . </p>
<p>We say "Be a leader!" "Take charge!" "Don't get bossed around!". To do that, you have to make others followers, take charge of others, and boss others around. For one person to rise above the level of "corporate slave", they have to become masters of even more "corporate slaves". And for what purpose? Money. We use workers with capped salaries and expendable positions for the sake of making money for ourselves. Not just enough to live happily, but enough to live luxuriously by profiting from the labor of others (whose bodies have been reduced to mere machines) once we've clawed our way to the top. And by keeping tons of other people in mediocre lifestyles, we can stay rich.</p>
<p>Ah capitalism</p>
<p>jk 6 figure celery rulezz!!!!11</p>
<p>college isn't necessary for a prosperous future. That being said i structured a plan a few months ago that is netting me a few hundred dollars every few weeks. After two more months if i don't become lazy and expand, i will be nearing 1,000 a month and can expand accordingly, or expand based on my will to work with maximum output with my current working hours in retail topping me out at 6k per month. School is not necessary, contrary to what everyone says. It rather depends on the field of work you want to be in</p>