Recently I have been wondering how things would have turned out if I had gone to college instead of working right out of High School ...
At the time I had no money for university and had to live on my own 100% when high school ended. Alot of my friends had the opportunity to go to college when in reality - I had to earn a living to live somewhere.
The idea of living on ramen and being broke beyond broke did not look attractive to me at the time.
I went into IT sales in 1997 and each year since 2000 have successfully earned well over $100k annually. This year is the exception where I have already clocked $150k and on target to at least $225k.
I'm also paying my house off in the next year, own my 2 trucks, have no debt currently ( no loans, credit cards, etc ) and decent amount of cash in the bank. In my view, life is really what you make it when it comes to wanting to make more money.
I grew up on welfare. To this day - my parents have no cash, no money anywhere in the family but, there was a lot of love.
One of my good friends that has a law degree said to me when we talked about my missing college: You buy trucks for cash, you have no student loans, you travel all over and you make far more than most by using your experience and skills rather than what you were told what to think in school.
I have people that work for me that DID go to school and 99% of the time - Their degree has nothing to do what we do as a trade day to day in the IT consulting space I am in.
To each their own.
