What will your future hold if you don't attend College?

Garbage men can't be garbage men unless they graduate. That there should tell you what type of job you'll gewt if you don't attend college.

I went to one year of uni so far, but I'm not sure if I'll return in the fall, I might take a year off to really focus on music. Otherwise, yeah, you're fairly screwed if you don't at least have something. Especially in today's economy.HybridPhoenix

Garbage men can't be garbage men unless they graduate. That there should tell you what type of job you'll gewt if you don't attend college.

BumFluff122

If you're fine with working at a grocery store and playing the lotto for the rest of your life... Then sure, going to college isn't that necessary for you.

[QUOTE="HybridPhoenix"]I went to one year of uni so far, but I'm not sure if I'll return in the fall, I might take a year off to really focus on music. Otherwise, yeah, you're fairly screwed if you don't at least have something. Especially in today's economy.kemar7856

Depends on what skills you have without the degree. I've seen people do better without a degree than they did with a degree.

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Garbage men can't be garbage men unless they graduate. That there should tell you what type of job you'll gewt if you don't attend college.

ethanpaige

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Garbage men can't be garbage men unless they graduate. That there should tell you what type of job you'll gewt if you don't attend college.

BumFluff122

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Garbage men can't be garbage men unless they graduate. That there should tell you what type of job you'll gewt if you don't attend college.

BumFluff122

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[QUOTE="ethanpaige"] being a Garbage Man is actually a great job...Tiefster

Depends on what skills you have without the degree. I've seen people do better without a degree than they did with a degree.

Tiefster

Depends on what skills you have without the degree. I've seen people do better without a degree than they did with a degree.

I never went to Collage, I make $30/h (Canadian) and have full benifits and a pension. not to mention I get 3 months off every year to do what ever I want.

Collage? what's that?

Death. College makes you Immortal.

[QUOTE="Tiefster"][QUOTE="BumFluff122"]it pays good but it doesn't pay anywhere near as good as the types of jobs you could get if you went through college.

cametall

I never went to Collage, I make $30/h (Canadian) and have full benifits and a pension. not to mention I get 3 months off every year to do what ever I want.

Collage? what's that?

Mikey132

I hear the military is hiring.blackngold29

Isnt it always? :lol:

Well if I don't attend college I would try to go to Bethel, whether in Patterson, Wallkill or Brooklyn.

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[QUOTE="ethanpaige"] being a Garbage Man is actually a great job...Tiefster

An art history major from, say, the university of Wyoming isn't going to go very far, but an engineering major from, say, Caltech, Stanford, Duke, or Rice will probably get 90K+ starting.

A fair amount of people I know who graduated this year actually got 110K+ jobs.

Things're even better if you get a masters/PhD from these places.

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Garbage men can't be garbage men unless they graduate. That there should tell you what type of job you'll gewt if you don't attend college.

ethanpaige

ya, the garbagemen where I live get 40k starting salary, 3 weeks paid vacation, and full benefits. Many make 50+k a year.

Anyway, college is both very overrated, and very good. Odd, I know.

Its overrated simply because it is not really understood. People think you go, put in four years, graduate, and get a good job. Its doesnt work like that. College usually takes more than five years, is difficult, and throws all kinds of curveballs at you. If youre not ready for it, youre in for a tough time.

Too many people simply go to college because theyre pressured into it, because its "what you do after high school", and its sad.

College is good because it can lead to a good job; whether or not that job pays well doesnt matter, but what does matter is that if you study something you enjoy, youre likely to get a job you enjoy...it might even pay well.

Either way, its a good time to be a student, and bad time to be out looking for jobs. Stay in school.

And for God's sake at least graduate high school.

I didn't really do College, not properly. I ended up being paid 37 hours a week to patrol one of the best surf beaches of Cornwall. I keep the place clean, I need to keep track and deal with what ever washes up (including animals). I track tags that wash up from fishing boats and basically chill out on the beach. I also get paid to surf during my working hours, as long as I keep on top of things. I'm also a last resort lifeguard, since i'm still around the beach for a while after the life guards are off duty; in the last few hours i'm often in the water or overlooking it from a divable cliff that has an emergency buoyancy float. The sea can get quite nasty here, sometimes beginner surfers who wade out further can get relentlessy hammered by a constant stream of heavy waves that won't give you a second to catch your breath.

Since I love surfing anyway, I tend to stay there most the day. Of course all this practice time means i'm pretty damn good at it now, my special move being able to ride atop the curl of the wave, a fantastic feeling. Often I do a suicide bomb and turn myself into the wave, propelling myself into the air and doing a somersault off my board before crashing back into the sea to catch another wave, one day, instead of jumping from the board I hope to land back down on the wave. If I can pull that off, then I can perhaps look at surfing more seriously.

Other then that, i've done all kinds of mundane jobs over the winter. I can't do a full time office job anymore, get too bored.

"Would you like fries with that?"

I think I would either A: work for my dad or B: join the army.

I'd still be a writer, just I wont have a double degree in Philosophy and Literature.

I think that I would be pretty worthless without college. Math and science are about all I am good for. I would recommend going to college just because it opens up a lot of doors, but some people can do fine without it.

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I never went to Collage, I make $30/h (Canadian) and have full benifits and a pension. not to mention I get 3 months off every year to do what ever I want.

Collage? what's that?

Aznsilvrboy

I operate Heavy Equipment building roads. Something we'll always need. My best year so far I made 76k :) lots of overtime.

In the end it's about what you love. There are plenty of jobs you can get without college, and if it's a job you love you'd be a fool to pay..

Going to college isn't all about money either, in my situation I'm becoming a teacher. I know i'll only make like 50k for a while, and there are probably even non-college jobs that pay better after enough years, but it's what I love..

I was raised believing that college was a normal part of the educational system, and that you weren't finished until you had a degree.

I can't say I hate my parents for it though. If I had the best days of my life in high school, I had the best weeks, nay, monthsin college!

I feel my future wouldn't be much if I don't attend college. I'd like to finish college, get a degree and have a good job. Who doesn't?

College isn't a necessity for a successful life. It helps a lot, but you don't need to have a college education.sammyjenkis898

The military is a better deal than college right now anyway.

Free medical, free dental, free housing, free food, steady job, able promotion, you get to blow **** up, the GI Bill, good career, education opportunities.

The only thing I can see myself being is a biologist. I can't think of anything I'd want to do that doesn't require higher education.

If I wasn't in college, I'd probably end up working full time at Stop and Shop or some other chain store.

College is important but its not the key for success at. Don't get me wrong, the benefits are great with a formal education, but its one's mind of creativity and expansion that leads to one success. So if you decide to find suuccess away from a college, good luck

yeah thinking that if you go to college everything will be easy is one of the biggest illusions around.Here in greece people with medical,law and enginneering degrees are among the first in the unemployment lists.Some jobs have been oversaturated and people dont get to realize that.It's their parents fault sometime ,who in order to make them study tell them that if they dont go to college they'll end up poor.If you like it go,if you don't,don't.It's your life after all.If you know the tricks(and have some luck) you can succeed whatever you do.You can become a business man and make fortunes.

I don't plan on going to college, unless it's a community college sort of deal. I'll work a mediocre job that pays okay, then after I have kids (22-24) just either work at a bakery or cater out of my own home. I love cooking and baking, so its an easy, fun job for me.XilePrincess

I don't plan on going to college, unless it's a community college sort of deal. I'll work a mediocre job that pays okay, then after I have kids (22-24) just either work at a bakery or cater out of my own home. I love cooking and baking, so its an easy, fun job for me.XilePrincess