Where are the college drop-outs? - GoFuckYourself.com

Sly_RJ · 10-21-2003, 10:55 AM

Who all dropped out of college, and why?

I dropped out after my freshmen year at SDSU. I was bored off my ass with my easy general ed classes. Only reason I started school was because somehow I had imprinted in my mind that the only way to make a good living was to hold a piece of paper worth thousands of invested dollars.

Shit hit the fan with my financial situation. I had 2 options... dedicate more time to work/business or move back home with the family.

I'd say I made a pretty good choice.

detoxed · 10-21-2003, 10:56 AM

I got a job at DatingGold

triumph · 10-21-2003, 10:57 AM

SDSU you call that a college!

it is a party club if you ask me!

BRISK · 10-21-2003, 10:57 AM

I graduated.

FreeHugeMovies · 10-21-2003, 10:58 AM

Grad here

Tofu · 10-21-2003, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BRISK
I graduated.

So did I. Im not even using my degree....fuck school!

Samoan · 10-21-2003, 10:59 AM

I'm currently on a two year break.

sweetcuties · 10-21-2003, 10:59 AM

I graudated and it's one of the best things I ever did.. ads credibility to anything you do, plus you actually learn how to think

Candice · 10-21-2003, 10:59 AM

I dropped out at 20, and now at 26 I'm back in nursing school, and happy I went back!!

KRL · 10-21-2003, 11:00 AM

I went 2 years and couldn't picture myself sitting through another 2 years of bullshit lectures. Left PA and moved to CA. Started my first real world business at 20. I had all the other usual businesses that kids have before that also.

Furious_Male · 10-21-2003, 11:01 AM

Graduated but not using my degree. Saw the light my senior year. Go figure.

eroswebmaster · 10-21-2003, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sweetcuties
plus you actually learn how to think

TaylorM · 10-21-2003, 11:02 AM

I graduated with a BA, but it should be more like BS!! College gets you an interview in the corporate world and then they tell you that you need expereince.

I learned more at a JC than I did at a CSU. I am not using my degree either.

Glad I didn't get in debt to get mine like so many others and the prices keep climbing!

GFED · 10-21-2003, 11:02 AM

I dropped out my senior year at USF for BA in Computer Engineering... I decided I'm not the 9-5 type of person...

Lonny · 10-21-2003, 11:03 AM

college? I droped out wayyyyyyyy befor that. Not proud of it. Then again I have no one to blame but my self for not going to school when I was growing up.

Theo · 10-21-2003, 11:07 AM

I'm in "pause" mode. I need 6-7 courses to finish,but i have set other priorities at the moment.

xenigo · 10-21-2003, 11:08 AM

I dropped out of community college a few years ago when I started working for Sprint full time, and then moving to Oracle Corporation. After I lost my job at Oracle I pretty much had no other option but to start my own business. So here I am, a full time pornographer.

Honeyslut · 10-21-2003, 11:09 AM

I have around 90 units of college and 8 years of book store management.

I will go back and finish when my girls are in college. Right now , they are my priority.

fiveyes · 10-21-2003, 11:12 AM

12 hours short of my BS in CompSci I "skipped a semester" almost ten years ago. Someday...

Jer · 10-21-2003, 11:12 AM

I graduated in Advertising last year.

BRISK · 10-21-2003, 11:13 AM

Education is never a waste of time. Even though I graduated, I still read books on business, economics, psychology, sociology, history, and philosophy.

Learning is fun.

Bulldog-Johnnie · 10-21-2003, 11:14 AM

Graduated College-

Dropped out of High School....

Jer · 10-21-2003, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by fiveyes
12 hours short of my BS in CompSci I "skipped a semester" almost ten years ago. Someday...

Just 12 fucking hours away from it? Wow.

irishfury · 10-21-2003, 11:19 AM

I am about 15 credits away but I havn't gone back.....

Right not I work full time as a net admin and part time adult webmaster.....

Tired of being a net admin though..
Anyone in michigan hiring

Sosa · 10-21-2003, 11:23 AM

me graduated from a shitty community college where the students knew more in information technology then the teachers did. Go figure...

phpslave · 10-21-2003, 11:23 AM

Drop out here, more than once too.

I kept trying because I wanted my degree, but it just cost too much and takes to much time. The classes were always slow paced, and I hated half of the required classes, for that well rounded education. Plus I was already doing what I wanted, programming, within my first three months of my last attempt at college. I agree some people need college to learn and someone else to show them how to do things, but others can learn on there own. It all depends on the person.

A friend of mine just got out of college with a BS in computer science, but he is getting passed over for people with 4 or more years of job experience, like me. So now he has a student loan to pay off and has to start where I started more than 6 years ago. Who knows though maybe in 4 years or so he may surpass me, really doubt it though 10 years experience under my belt by then and my learning never stops because I?m self taught where as school has been out for years for my friend by then.

ZoiNk · 10-21-2003, 11:26 AM

Actually I am a highschool dropout. Working on finishing that up now though. I was too lazy to finish it at the time when it was free. Now that I have to pay for every course, I am more motivated. Kinda odd that way.
ZoiNk

rooster · 10-21-2003, 11:28 AM

i have a few years of college but the credits are scattered in alot of different areas.

College is kinda pointless I think unless you are going for a specific career where you need a degree in it.

Most things I can teach myself, and at a quicker pace, and exactly what I want to learn. With the internet, any info I want is at my finger tips.

I laugh at people I know that have college loans up the ass and were only able to get some nothing special job with their undergrad degree.

Milena Dickman · 10-21-2003, 11:29 AM

I dropped college this year. I was actually fooling myself for over a year and a half, forcing me to go on. But I finally dropped it.

Journalism wasn´t for me, the job stinks, I would never be able to do what I wanted, would end up unhappy, bitter and with a heart problem.

But I´m actually changing courses. Next year I´ll start studying Philosophy....

EvilFubAr · 10-21-2003, 11:31 AM

I dropped out when I realized I had been convinced that the T.A.s' last name written on the whiteboard had something to do with starting c+ code. I couldn?t understand a fuckin thing he said due to his poor English. Im glad I didn?t stay; I would be no where close to where I stand now if I didn?t drop out.

IntenseCash · 10-21-2003, 11:48 AM

I went to ITT Tech for about 6 months before I decided Computer Networking was not for me. Can't believe how expensive that school is for a bullshit degree. Just for the 6 months I went there I paid $7,800.

I dont believe it takes a college or technical degree to be successful, I hate how college and high school protray that you do need a degree.

Loryn · 10-21-2003, 11:58 AM

I did the same thing. I dropped out first year. I got good grades I just didn't want to be there. It felt like starting HS all over again.

But I will take classes forever. I love it. I took Latin at UCLA about 2 years ago. Damn that was a hard class, but my life was wild then so that didn't help. I like to take classes just to educate myself more. I was planning on going to school to become and Interior Architect, but then I ran into this job and I love it.

So for now I am going to keep taking a class here or there. This spring I am taking a Photoshop class and an html class. Everyone tells me learning html the old school way, instead of using just Homesite or Dreamweaver, will benefit me more in the long run.
Could only help!

bigdog · 10-21-2003, 12:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by IntenseCash
I went to ITT Tech for about 6 months before I decided Computer Networking was not for me. Can't believe how expensive that school is for a bullshit degree. Just for the 6 months I went there I paid $7,800.

I dont believe it takes a college or technical degree to be successful, I hate how college and high school protray that you do need a degree.

Exactly you don't need a degree. You just need to live in china or india and they can pay you .30 cents a hour

EZRhino · 10-21-2003, 12:02 PM

Working at walmart and radio shack

phogirl69 · 10-21-2003, 12:09 PM

I dropped out a few years ago because I had to work full-time at a real job to support myself and it was too stressful going to school and working at the same time. But I just started going back. I''m only taking one class right now to ease myself into it, but I'm going full time next semester. I hope to be going pre-law.i

I'm 25 and I think all the other people in class are mostly 18-19 yr old kids, but I look very young for my age (I could pass for 18 ) so no one has to know how old I really am! I tell all the other kids I'm 18 and they believe me too

phogirl69 · 10-21-2003, 12:16 PM

I really really really do regreat not listening to my parents and going straight to college when I was 18. I could have been out of graduate school by now! I really fucked up when I was youinger. I did not get along with my mother, so I left home when I was around 18 or 19 and had to work full-time to support myself. I wasted 7 years of my life doing nothing, when I could have been finishing law school by now and looking forward to making 100k a year.

When I was younger I always thought 7 years of college was too much and too loong. But now that I think about it, it is nothing. I'm 25 and I look still look young for my age,
I could have been out of school and be
successful while I'm still young and somewhat hot

Instead now when I get out of school I will be 32

Mr Pheer · 10-21-2003, 12:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Candice
I dropped out at 20, and now at 26 I'm back in nursing school, and happy I went back!!

Excellant!

Thats means I'm only 23 now!

Thanks Candice!!!

BlackCrayon · 10-21-2003, 12:35 PM

i didn't really drop out, just finished 1 year and decided to try and get an apprenticeship in what i went to school for instead of going to school for another year then apprenticing. then i realized all places want 2 years and it takes like 10 years to make any kind of decent wage, tho i still tried, took a shit job as a janitor in a tool and die factory. they told me if i worked hard they would give me an apprenticeship. worked my ass off for 3 months, got bitched at daily, said fuck it one night and left, got on the net, and within 6 months i was making money doing this. best decision i ever made.

XxXotic · 10-21-2003, 12:47 PM

i dropped out my 2nd semester, college just wasnt for me

AOLGuy · 10-21-2003, 01:06 PM

I tried limited community college after graduating high school early...

But damnit, some girl I had a crush on was in my poly sci class. She always wanted to get coffee at break, and ditch out on class and talk about deviant sex.

If I'd only asked her to pose naked for me, I coulda jumped on this wave at its earliest days back in 95!

theking · 10-21-2003, 02:26 PM

I have an Associate Degree and I attended University...but I kept changing majors so I did not get a degree...although I could have applied for (still can) and received a Liberal Arts degree...but what would be the point. It would be a degree that I would never use. I was like a lost soul when my military career was cut short and I basically attended University because I could not think of anything better to do...it killed some time until I could think things through.

Kimmykim · 10-21-2003, 02:34 PM

Poli Sci at Tulane, Economics at N Texas, didnt feel like sticking around to finish either...

PrivateEye · 10-21-2003, 02:37 PM

I was in the military for 6 years as a food inspector and took classes the whole time I was in...finally I applied and got a full paid ride at a local school back home and took a early out from the military....went for 2 years and the USDA recruite me....they moved me to Dallas with a promise of some pretty good money...after we got there they cut my hours and we about starved to death.

Just last month I finally got that dang student loan pay off :-)

10-21-2003, 10:55 AM	#1
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BRISK Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 12,240	I graduated. __________________ I post on GFY so that when people ask me what I do, I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.

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sweetcuties Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Somewhere Posts: 5,859	I graudated and it's one of the best things I ever did.. ads credibility to anything you do, plus you actually learn how to think __________________

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Candice Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: JUST CHILLIN' Posts: 1,149	I dropped out at 20, and now at 26 I'm back in nursing school, and happy I went back!! __________________ You judge me for being different, I laugh because you are all the same!

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triumph Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,433	SDSU you call that a college! it is a party club if you ask me!

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10-21-2003, 11:00 AM	#10
KRL Entrepreneur Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA Posts: 31,429	I went 2 years and couldn't picture myself sitting through another 2 years of bullshit lectures. Left PA and moved to CA. Started my first real world business at 20. I had all the other usual businesses that kids have before that also. __________________ If you would like to develop your domains, you can lease inexpensive foreign labor from the leaders in the field at iWebmasters.com TO LOWER YOUR COSTS AND INCREASE YOUR PRODUCTION! * * * * * * * * * * * * Domains Adult News KRL's Newsletter Biz Tips Just Listed Domains

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10-21-2003, 11:02 AM	#13
TaylorM Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: NorCal Posts: 947	I graduated with a BA, but it should be more like BS!! College gets you an interview in the corporate world and then they tell you that you need expereince. I learned more at a JC than I did at a CSU. I am not using my degree either. Glad I didn't get in debt to get mine like so many others and the prices keep climbing! __________________ Taylor - One of Your TopBabes TopBucks * TopCash ICQ 204139253 / [email protected]

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10-21-2003, 11:03 AM	#15
Lonny Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Riverside Ca. Posts: 3,539	college? I droped out wayyyyyyyy befor that. Not proud of it. Then again I have no one to blame but my self for not going to school when I was growing up. __________________ crakrevenue

10-21-2003, 11:07 AM	#16
Theo HAL 9000 Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 34,515	I'm in "pause" mode. I need 6-7 courses to finish,but i have set other priorities at the moment.

10-21-2003, 11:08 AM	#17
xenigo Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 8,067	I dropped out of community college a few years ago when I started working for Sprint full time, and then moving to Oracle Corporation. After I lost my job at Oracle I pretty much had no other option but to start my own business. So here I am, a full time pornographer.

10-21-2003, 11:09 AM	#18
Honeyslut Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ass Valley, Ca Posts: 6,436	I have around 90 units of college and 8 years of book store management. I will go back and finish when my girls are in college. Right now , they are my priority. __________________ http://nakedlunchnews.comWhat's up ? Naked Lunch News ! Last edited by Honeyslut; 10-21-2003 at 11:14 AM..

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10-21-2003, 11:12 AM	#20
Jer God is Brazilian Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Brazil Posts: 10,601	I graduated in Advertising last year.

10-21-2003, 11:13 AM	#21
BRISK Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 12,240	Education is never a waste of time. Even though I graduated, I still read books on business, economics, psychology, sociology, history, and philosophy. Learning is fun. __________________ I post on GFY so that when people ask me what I do, I can tell them that I work with the mentally retarded.

10-21-2003, 11:14 AM	#22
Bulldog-Johnnie Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 662	Graduated College- Dropped out of High School.... __________________ [email protected] ICQ-76720120

10-21-2003, 11:19 AM	#24
irishfury Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: In the hearts of cowards Posts: 2,611	I am about 15 credits away but I havn't gone back..... Right not I work full time as a net admin and part time adult webmaster..... Tired of being a net admin though.. Anyone in michigan hiring __________________ Trust no one there all snakes

10-21-2003, 11:23 AM	#25
Sosa In Tushy Land Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nebraska Posts: 40,149	me graduated from a shitty community college where the students knew more in information technology then the teachers did. Go figure...

10-21-2003, 11:23 AM	#26
phpslave Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: San Jose Posts: 548	Drop out here, more than once too. I kept trying because I wanted my degree, but it just cost too much and takes to much time. The classes were always slow paced, and I hated half of the required classes, for that well rounded education. Plus I was already doing what I wanted, programming, within my first three months of my last attempt at college. I agree some people need college to learn and someone else to show them how to do things, but others can learn on there own. It all depends on the person. A friend of mine just got out of college with a BS in computer science, but he is getting passed over for people with 4 or more years of job experience, like me. So now he has a student loan to pay off and has to start where I started more than 6 years ago. Who knows though maybe in 4 years or so he may surpass me, really doubt it though 10 years experience under my belt by then and my learning never stops because I?m self taught where as school has been out for years for my friend by then. __________________

10-21-2003, 11:26 AM	#27
ZoiNk Confirmed User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 2,370	Actually I am a highschool dropout. Working on finishing that up now though. I was too lazy to finish it at the time when it was free. Now that I have to pay for every course, I am more motivated. Kinda odd that way. ZoiNk __________________ "People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black." - Henry Ford

10-21-2003, 11:28 AM	#28
rooster Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,384	i have a few years of college but the credits are scattered in alot of different areas. College is kinda pointless I think unless you are going for a specific career where you need a degree in it. Most things I can teach myself, and at a quicker pace, and exactly what I want to learn. With the internet, any info I want is at my finger tips. I laugh at people I know that have college loans up the ass and were only able to get some nothing special job with their undergrad degree.

10-21-2003, 11:29 AM	#29
Milena Dickman Confirmed User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Brazil Posts: 501	I dropped college this year. I was actually fooling myself for over a year and a half, forcing me to go on. But I finally dropped it. Journalism wasn´t for me, the job stinks, I would never be able to do what I wanted, would end up unhappy, bitter and with a heart problem. But I´m actually changing courses. Next year I´ll start studying Philosophy.... __________________ work hard. play hard. http://www.dickmansdesign.com MSN milenadickman at hotmail.com iCQ # 276820774

10-21-2003, 11:31 AM	#30
EvilFubAr Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: Earth Posts: 1,141	I dropped out when I realized I had been convinced that the T.A.s' last name written on the whiteboard had something to do with starting c+ code. I couldn?t understand a fuckin thing he said due to his poor English. Im glad I didn?t stay; I would be no where close to where I stand now if I didn?t drop out.

10-21-2003, 11:48 AM	#31
IntenseCash Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Colorado Posts: 2,421	I went to ITT Tech for about 6 months before I decided Computer Networking was not for me. Can't believe how expensive that school is for a bullshit degree. Just for the 6 months I went there I paid $7,800. I dont believe it takes a college or technical degree to be successful, I hate how college and high school protray that you do need a degree. __________________ IntenseCash.com ~ Chuck \| ICQ: 444887112 Top converting sites: BrokeStraightBoys.com, CollegeDudes.com & CollegeBoyPhysicals.com

10-21-2003, 11:58 AM	#32
Loryn Super Connector Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 12,853	I did the same thing. I dropped out first year. I got good grades I just didn't want to be there. It felt like starting HS all over again. But I will take classes forever. I love it. I took Latin at UCLA about 2 years ago. Damn that was a hard class, but my life was wild then so that didn't help. I like to take classes just to educate myself more. I was planning on going to school to become and Interior Architect, but then I ran into this job and I love it. So for now I am going to keep taking a class here or there. This spring I am taking a Photoshop class and an html class. Everyone tells me learning html the old school way, instead of using just Homesite or Dreamweaver, will benefit me more in the long run. Could only help! __________________ ~ loryn@loryntaylor . com ~ RIP TD

10-21-2003, 12:02 PM	#34
EZRhino Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: couch Posts: 6,258	Working at walmart and radio shack

10-21-2003, 12:09 PM	#35
phogirl69 Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,330	I dropped out a few years ago because I had to work full-time at a real job to support myself and it was too stressful going to school and working at the same time. But I just started going back. I''m only taking one class right now to ease myself into it, but I'm going full time next semester. I hope to be going pre-law.i I'm 25 and I think all the other people in class are mostly 18-19 yr old kids, but I look very young for my age (I could pass for 18 ) so no one has to know how old I really am! I tell all the other kids I'm 18 and they believe me too

10-21-2003, 12:16 PM	#36
phogirl69 Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,330	I really really really do regreat not listening to my parents and going straight to college when I was 18. I could have been out of graduate school by now! I really fucked up when I was youinger. I did not get along with my mother, so I left home when I was around 18 or 19 and had to work full-time to support myself. I wasted 7 years of my life doing nothing, when I could have been finishing law school by now and looking forward to making 100k a year. When I was younger I always thought 7 years of college was too much and too loong. But now that I think about it, it is nothing. I'm 25 and I look still look young for my age, I could have been out of school and be successful while I'm still young and somewhat hot Instead now when I get out of school I will be 32

10-21-2003, 12:35 PM	#38
BlackCrayon Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Ottawa Posts: 19,631	i didn't really drop out, just finished 1 year and decided to try and get an apprenticeship in what i went to school for instead of going to school for another year then apprenticing. then i realized all places want 2 years and it takes like 10 years to make any kind of decent wage, tho i still tried, took a shit job as a janitor in a tool and die factory. they told me if i worked hard they would give me an apprenticeship. worked my ass off for 3 months, got bitched at daily, said fuck it one night and left, got on the net, and within 6 months i was making money doing this. best decision i ever made. __________________ you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..

10-21-2003, 12:47 PM	#39
XxXotic Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Da Swamps Posts: 8,500	i dropped out my 2nd semester, college just wasnt for me __________________ Sponsors.. Tired of people not using your shitty RSS Feeds? Let Us Help You! Oxeo - Serious Hosting For Serious Webmasters. iCQ:135.887013

10-21-2003, 01:06 PM	#40
AOLGuy Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Nebraska Posts: 1,261	I tried limited community college after graduating high school early... But damnit, some girl I had a crush on was in my poly sci class. She always wanted to get coffee at break, and ditch out on class and talk about deviant sex. If I'd only asked her to pose naked for me, I coulda jumped on this wave at its earliest days back in 95!