School sucks

[Linkon]

@Bean:

Bean… stay in school as long as you can.

The real world is MUCH worse than the life of a student.

That’s the effing problem I think. I don’t want to stay in school, but I’m absolutely certain it won’t be any better once I graduate.

I think I really now appreciate Rudolfo Anaya’s saying: life sucks, and then you die.  :roll:

School can take place in many forms even after you get that treasured sheep skin.

Folks (we can cite Theodore Roosevelt) who massively impact this world keep themselves open to learning and growing long after they hear the commence speeches.  The growth is mainly from applying what they learned.

I was broke in HS, and had little choice to what I studied. 
I was still broke on college, but earning some $, and making choices for self-directed future goals.

Now I run a growing web business with my wife, while working and learning things of value to my employer.  Not totally wealthy yet, but we are making progress.

Never forget that in the USA, we all enjoy great freedoms.  Choices on our goals, and what we learn and work toward for those goals.  Even if it is so limited to complaining about how life appears to suck for you personally and then choosing to die.

However, you did choose to post here and you seem to like A & A, so to the rest of us here, you are obviously worth more than the average civilian.

I look forward to seeing you and others around me to succeed in this great nation.

Historical games will hopefully allow us to analyze past mistakes and enable us to sidestep them as we prepare for the uncertain battles and challenges of the future.

Party on!

[frood]

Don’t be no fool, stay in skool.

Seriously though, if you don’t feel like school is your thing, take a year or two to work, see the world, learn about yourself and what you like to do. Too many people go straight to college or university, do an arts degree because science is too hard, get almost nothing out of it, graduate and then wonder why they can’t find a job that they like and that pays them what they think they are worth with a “college degree”.

But don’t just spend the year or two playing video games in your parents’ basement and being a leech on them and on society. If your life is that easy now, you’ll be not well prepared for what life brings later on when the apron strings are finally cut, or (worse) the strings will never be cut and you’ll still be mooching off your parents when you are 45, and you’ll find that as you’ve never been much use to anybody else, no one else has much use for you.

Wow I sound so harsh and conservative!

You may be the kind of person who’s needs are simple and you can live by yourself off of a minimum wage salary, and you are contented in life hanging out and playing guitar and that’s what makes you happy. I’m a lawyer and I sometimes wish I just had a “simple” job where I didn’t have to worry about clients losing thousands of dollars if I screw up.

Or you may be the kind of person who develops themselves on their own, has that independent ambition and ability, and you start out as a low-level employee and eventually take over the business, without any formal advanced education.

Personally, I think it’s not about whether you get a formal education or not. It’s about whether you have a curious, active mind and will learn about the world and develop yourself as a person. There’s a lot of people in university whose grey matter is not worth more than the chair they are sitting in.

The other thing though about college is that this is where you make the friends that you will probably know for the next major chunk of your life, and possibly your spouse. Because believe me, your high school friends will be 80% gone in the next few years. The people you meet in college tend to be more long-term friends.

College is way better than high school. It may seem scary, but once you get the hang of it, and realize that everyone else is a bit afraid too, it’s a big rush.

Well, I hope some of that made sense anyway.

[allies_fly]

scary deep there Frood.