Good ideas at heart, but I find a bit misguided...my story

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Ceiling Cat Wrote:However, I still despise the college for the sheer fact of it being enforced upon everyone. While getting a job, people are looking at the paper, not the knowledge. That's why I'd rather not go to college, just to boycott the stupid system favorizing those who can't improve on their own.

yes dude u r so right about that. People don't care about the quality of a person, and they don't care about what they have to truly offer. They are just caring about a piece of paper, and that is unfortunate. DOn't even get me started on how fucked up the corporate world is. Honestly I don't want to enter it. I don't think I ever will I will probably end up being a professor

However, in some ways you have to see their point in terms of jobs where specific skills are required. I mean, if you need somebody for a very specific job, a college degree can speak for skills. I mean its like saying if you need to hire somebody to be a nurse, that's going to require some specific training. It's certaintly something I can't do. Or if you need a petroleum engineer, you know they are looking for somebody with certain skills.

You say u r a programmer. And I can really see why you would be frustrated. Because in the field of computer science, seriously, degree does not usually mean shit. I know people who are getting masters right now and can't program hello world in java. You are really right in that there are tons and tons of highly qualified programmers out there who don't have college education. And unfortunately companies won't look at them and that's a loss for the company

But just know that this happens no matter what job you go for, even in jobs not requiring education. There were plenty of construction crews which I tried to get on that wouldn't hire people unless they had so many years of experience. Or you know if you get in the union and become an apprentice or a journeyman, you know its the concept like getting a bachelors or masters. They will hire u right away with certain certifications and u may not be the best for the job. It's the same thing you know. How did they know how good I was v. somebody else?


BUt don't sell YOURSELF short! I mean, you not going to college simply to stick it to the system looses its meaning because one person not going to collge isn't going to to do anything. Effect change by getting in the system and changing it from within. We damn well need people to change the way education is run in the country, I swear. So change it from inside! You will be able to do far more from the inside than on the outside. LOL I am reminding myself of the monologue at the end of SLC Punk...