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Skeptical About College
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Chibi Moon Beam
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Skeptical About College
I've been very skeptical about college, lately. You have people on one side who tell you to at least get a 2 yr degree and avoid certificates. Then you have people who went through college and have struggled for X years finding the better job a college education promised them. I want to be independent. I want to support myself. My tuition all has to be paid through scholarships, I don't have to pay them back, but that means 2 years of leeching off of my family. I don't want that, I'm pretty sure they don't either. All I really wanna do is build and fix computers. In the Comfort of my own home. With the self-responsibility of being my own boss. I recently decided to go one step further and start looking for jobs, apprenticeships maybe. I just feel I want actual experience in my field that I could easily gain through a couple goodwill auctions, a part-time job, and curious mind that wants to do what I want to do for a living. On the other hand, I feel pressured by everyone to go to college even for so much as an Associates Degree. The Problem is I'm not so completely sure myself if I even want to bother going. Like maybe I could be out of my parent's house sooner if I just found and maintained a job right off the bat. I'm in a gray area, here. I don't know what to do, all I know is I'm not 100% sure college is right for me.
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I'd say an apprenticeship would be great. It's really all you need, and for what you're doing, it's probably going to be more effective in the long run. People want to hire workers with hands on experience, not a degree.
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I may just take a year off to work and decide from there, I just don't see how any mainstream 2-4 years will help me. I want the path of self-employment, not climbing up the corporate ladder and becoming a corporate drone.
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For me the Problem is I'm not so completely sure myself if I even want to bother going. Like maybe I could be out of my parent's house sooner if I just found and maintained a job right off the bat.
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Good luck trying to get people to take you seriously if you don't have a degree. People today have come to the conclusion that the only way to get experience is through college.
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BobManPerson Wrote:Good luck trying to get people to take you seriously if you don't have a degree. People today have come to the conclusion that the only way to get experience is through college.
For a lot of careers, but not necessarily the ones that require manual labor.
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