Reading this thread makes me hate life really reallly bad!
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.College is jokes. Depressing waste of time. At 31, i've only kept two solid friends from that period - neither of whome I've seen in more than a year.
Most of the friends i "chill" with are (ex)work colleagues, random roommates, people at my MMA training facility and girls i bang - i.e going out and meeting girls in bars, clubs, the street, internet dating site (on a relentless basis) some broad i bumped into the airport a few weeks ago. etc. etc.
College was a depressing whole that i left me in a mountain of debt, scraping by barely enough to eat - going several days in a row without food cos i was LITERALLLY BROKE, partying way to hard on hard drugs i shouldn't have touched - and, in fact, hardly having any sex at ALL
A desperate lonely time for.
Did a "HIstory" degree - learnt NOTHING that i couldn't have gleaned from watching the Discovery challenge and reading books, which i do avidly anyway.
As for my writing talent which i exploit, yeah, part of that was honed with the sophisticated essay skills I develoiped at uni - but i did not need to be slaughtered for four years to do that.
Mass college education is a SCAM that feeds these overblown university systems with untold wealth
I know, right?!!Reading this thread makes me hate life really reallly bad!
This is the most demotivating, depressing thread that I've ever read.
Btw, I am horrified by the idea of having NOT done that
What a waste of my life that would have been
ArthurDayne said: ↑
I'm amazed at how many 17 year olds pop onto here living in their parents' basements thinking that getting a job is to admit defeat in life, and that going to school is a waste of time.
Love this post.
Don't hold your breath on that, the circlejerk is too strong.
Naive children thinking they possess a gift. Spend all their time talking about how great fastlane is, how jobs are the devil, etc. Nothing but talk, ad nauseam. Easy to say that when Mommy is paying your rent.
Can't fault them, I've been there.
Scary as F*ck!
Hell yea! Tell 'em!1. What are you even talking about? Don't... most 17 year olds... live with their parents? I don't even get your point. Would they be smarter if they were homeless?
2. Most of us accomplish nothing from ages 17 to 23. What are you saying? I should accomplish nothing and go into debt while I do it?
I really don't understand the condescending attitude toward teenagers. What, were you independent and rich before you turned 14? What does anything you two have said even contribute to the conversation?
1. What are you even talking about? Don't... most 17 year olds... live with their parents? I don't even get your point. Would they be smarter if they were homeless?
2. Most of us accomplish nothing from ages 17 to 23. What are you saying? I should accomplish nothing and go into debt while I do it?
I really don't understand the condescending attitude toward teenagers. What, were you independent and rich before you turned 14? What does anything you two have said even contribute to the conversation?
Being 22, with no job, and $20 in your bank account and no prospects of income or employment is not acceptable and I don't understand how a parent could put up with such nonsense.
While this may be some people's perspective, the majority of the friends that my wife and I hang with on a regular basis are in their early 20's through mid 30's. I am 56. They seem to relate to me just fine. We have softball and running in common so there is a link to tie us together. But we hang out off the field regularly and do many activities together.A 60 year old may very well be more interesting, but young people can't relate to old people as well as young people
While this may be some people's perspective, the majority of the friends that my wife and I hang with on a regular basis are in their early 20's through mid 30's. I am 56. They seem to relate to me just fine. We have softball and running in common so there is a link to tie us together. But we hang out off the field regularly and do many activities together.
I don't understand why age should be a hindrance to conversation.
although you guys are still fairly close in age
An arts degree is nonsense and I have no sympathy for those that graduate with a mountain of debt because of it.
Most of us don't have life figured out. We just try not to worry about what color of car to dream of. "Like a child" funny when in the company of "adults" Aunts, Uncles, parents, I still feel like a child.People are people, old or young. I've met a few older people who have life figured out.
Like a child, in the sense that they don't have a chip on their shoulder about a lot of irrelevant stuff.
But like a sage, in the sense that their bliss is accompanied by wisdom.
That's great! There are those times, I've found, where people of different generations DO mesh (although you guys are still fairly close in age). I guess I meant like if a 65 year old who enjoys slow walks and conversation were to hang with a 20 year old who's always drunk and likes partying, they probably wouldn't get along for very long EVEN if they both have an interest in/can talk about sports.
Anyways, thanks for the input!
1. What are you even talking about? Don't... most 17 year olds... live with their parents? I don't even get your point. Would they be smarter if they were homeless?
2. Most of us accomplish nothing from ages 17 to 23. What are you saying? I should accomplish nothing and go into debt while I do it?
I really don't understand the condescending attitude toward teenagers. What, were you independent and rich before you turned 14? What does anything you two have said even contribute to the conversation?
Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I just picked a number from the air - there's nothing wrong with living at home during school or college. Do I expect a 20 year old to accomplish anything? Hell no. I certainly didn't.
To be more specific (and accurate), here's what I was trying to say: It is genuinely worrying to see someone who's in their early 20s post about their plan for fastlane life, but instead of doing it because they have an idea or entrepreneurial passion (legit reasons), they do it because they assume that anything traditionally educational or slowlane HAS to be rejected and is in fact beneath them from the get-go.
I want to be a fastlaner but life doesn't go that way it has got to come from the inside not from the outside, for example bill gates did what he felt like not because of reading the fastlane forum.
I have learned from this but i am still struggling with it, people my age are still finding out theire lives and its damm hard for me.
But in all honesty, at 16 you got all you need,
yeah because not willing to wait will make you rich and powerfulI will stop school when i am 21 years old or 22 because i hate it i want to live and thrive i don't want to wait. Stupid matrix
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