Can someone explain why this is spouted constantly here. I have LITERALLY never met anyone who didn't go (or started their own business or married into it) and came close to making it, ever. In my upper middle class neighborhood there is one person who works as a plumber, he owns the business and is looked down on by everyone cause he's very trashy compared to everyone else.
Growing up it was the exact opposite, I don't think anyone went to a decent uni in the shithole I lived in. I'm sure this is a global thing, and the statistics back it up.
So why do Jow Forums virgin's say it's a waste of time and money?
because no one in your neighbourhood has "made it". They probably have $100-300k jobs. That is not making it.
Making it, is $1 mill+ a year. And anyone who makes that much is 99% chance not wageslaving to do it. They run a business. And to run a business you don't need university. The only reason you might need a degree is because it'll be much easier to get your first business loan with one. But that's about it.
If you spend 10 hours a day studying something, then in 3 years you will become an "expert in that field" (10,000 hours). That means if you drop out at 16 and live as a NEET until your 19 while studying programming/cs every day instead of going to school, youll be more than equipped to start any venture you want and have very good odds of making it, while still having another 20 years of your young life ahead of you.
if your not a brainlet, uni is a meme. but if you dont have the drive to make it by yourself then you will 100% need uni to get a"good" job.
Carson Phillips
>So why do Jow Forums virgin's say it's a waste of time and money? They A) Earned a degree and think the grass is greener B) Heard it from someone else. C) Are the same stupid, know-ot-all NEETs who don't understand stuff like not using a credit card being a bad idea D) Earned a meme degree and had no real career plans. E) Get rejected from jobs for some personal flaw, but aren't aware. F) Got a meme degree with heavy debt
If you apply yourself and network, college can still be worth it. They'll tell you to start your own business after going to trade school, but for some reason degrees can only be valued based on what you get upon graduating if you've done no extracurricular activities.
Julian White
Right... so everyone on Jow Forums says it cause they expect to be earning 1mil+ a year from their business. So they're either on average more exceptional than 99.9 percent of people out absolutely delusional. Going by the huge amount of broke retards here I'm going with the second one.
Zachary Rogers
It’s all cope. If you’re smart and go to a good school you’ll come out and get a job and you’ll become a boss/manager quickly. Or if you’re looking to get financial backing for a business people will help you/trust you more if you’re an alumnus of some prestigious school. Successful/rich people know this instinctively. 100k+ a year households pay for their kids’ SAT tutor, private school etc. Poorer people think “derp you can google shit or learn at the library”, it’s about image. And plus poorer people are usually just avoiding being involved and don’t give a shit they’re cheating their kids out of a future. (In the US anyway)
If you’re a person who never washes out of anything, school is a joke to you. The only famous businessmen who quit school had wealthy families already and their business was taking off/they needed to act immediately or competition would steal their idea. Cost benefit analysis/risk assessment.
In university (if it’s like top 50-100ish) you’ll meet lots of people who are a triple threat: athletic, academic/hardworking, and good looking. They know what’s up. That whole wise neckbeard hacker shit is a meme. Pretty boy straight As is gonna get the job over Neckbeardzilla, doesnt matter if neckbeard is actually better at his job (usually isn’t, fat, undisciplined, unhygienic, so also bad at job too just arrogant etc)
If you go to community college there will be fewer of those people, but if community college only gets you a 2 dollar an hour raise, then yeah people will think it’s a waste. Which they’re not wrong in that case, CC is so you can get better at fundamentals and go to uni. Your associate’s from some school you need a pulse to get into will get you a retail manager job or an hourly help desk support/geek squad type job. And that’s what you see here people LARPing and doing it wrong.
Lincoln Allen
a) did it wrong b) can't do it at all and has changed their worldview to cope
College is good, and above all it proves that you have the discipline to work through something to completion. There is something to be taken from each course. Some will tell you (cope) that the same stuff could be learned on google, but college gives you a structure to follow rather than just clicking random article on wikipedia every day
Camden Evans
>Pretty boy straight As is gonna get the job over Neckbeardzilla, doesnt matter if neckbeard is actually better at his job
I certainly agree, but some sectors tend to divert from this.
If the work e.g. is done in the backoffice anyways and your existing team is comprised of nerdy people, putting an straight-A-surferboy straight from uni into this group can be a very, very bad idea.
- T. guy who is involved with finding specific staff for a big company
Henry Jenkins
the idea of going to college is learning specialized skills the reality of it for 99% of people is learning to network to get your useless ass in a make-believe position the idea of skipping college is building your business the reality of it for 99% of people is failure to perform and/or no stomach for the nepotism of college it's undoubtedly better to go to college if you have the mentality of a lemming (which doesn't mean going to college makes you a lemming, and that shouldn't need to be specified, but all lemmings will make that logical fallacy so there you go)
Ethan Smith
>and/or no stomach for the nepotism of college yep and if you're going to be in business you better accept nepotism as a fact of life
Ryan Green
Sure. But again that’s the neckbeard types being jealous or trying to push their holier than thou nonsense on everyone. Anti-social, working against the group. Which is why there is prejudice in hiring that type. Lol I’ve seen it, it isnt the new guy starting stuff. But again certain professions attract certain “types”
I even saw once they made the young dude in charge of a group of neckbeards. Almost had a mutiny. Lol. Project did not go well.
