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Posted - 2011.06.08 08:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Barakkus
Edited by: Barakkus on 06/06/2011 20:26:04
Originally by: Raetherana
well you screwed up, by 23 you would have been out of college possibly making 50k+ a year and made your folks proud, but thats fine we all screw up thats just human nature.
Nah probably would be unemployed or working at a pizza joint with how the economy tanked 
+ lots of debt.
It took me a few months after college to get a good job. And I was in engineering. I kept going until I got a job paying well. I guess 80k US dollar per year was my starting salery. Fortunatly my total 5 year college debt is only about 40k.
Thing is, so many are taking college education these days the degree is becoming more and more "regular", and more competition is on the market for the same jobs. I had signed up for som extra projects while in school and made sure I did well with my grads getting an avarage between A and B, but still people with experience was getting ahead of .
It really suck to get a call saying "we liked you, but this other dude had some expereince, but we would like you to stay as number 1 on our backup list in case he declines (as if he was going to decline)" "If our economy was better we would find you a position as well, in adidtion to this other guy with experience" :).
So, OP, my advice is to do what you want to do. Don't get a college education unless you want to, and at least not becuase you feel like your family is preasuring you into it.
In my case I wanted to get an education in engineering, and I now got a great enginering job. But it did take 6 years of my life to get it all rolling. I do not regret it at all, "lost income" and debt be dammned , I had a great time at college and I got a great job now.
But you need to want it, you need to have interest in what you are doing. My parents told me when I was young that they would support me in whatever I decided to do, and never put any preasure me in such ways, and thus I was able to do what I liked. So I can not relate to well to what it must be like to have parents preasuring you, but I do know wanting it yourself is key to doing well.
All in all college (at leat in my country) is a great thing to do. You learn lots of interesting things, and you get to meet like minded people and often get to expand your horizons greatly. But if you have no interest... There are other ways of doing well then college, it is not a "safe bet" to get a "good life" out of it later, even tho the time spent there can be great either way. Just take it seriously and don't party it all away (mind, do party a little bit, I know I did :D).
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