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Hey jacob.
The advantages and disadvantages of college?
If it's your goal to go to college to climb that corporate ladder only to waste your life away doing meaningless nothing in a cubical for 10 to 20 vacation days a year, you've got a rock-solid plan.
But this is an entrepreneur forum, not a college admissions club. And I'll tell you secret worth its weight in gold. You don't need a college degree to get a good job. You think you do because other people think you do, but it is possible to work for a respectable company that pays what others consider ''rich.''
The rich thing is people don't wake up from this fallacy of working until you die.
And when you get in the liquor club of the people with money, you will realize they have crystal glasses while you are drinking from a glass, because greed is never-ending, so don't try to out-pace it.
If you wanted to be a doctor, I could understand needing college. But you plan to ''start a business.'' This is a waste of time.
What you SHOULD do is stop focusing on getting ''A college degree'' and find a way to make bank while you enjoy life.
Note that I said while you enjoy life, not in between the 15 minutes your job permits you to pee.
Let's take Grammarly. I can't write worth a crap, so Grammarly gets my money,$139.95 annually without even thinking about it. So do many people who use that software meaning means Brad Hoover, The CEO of Grammarly, has a net worth of $60 million.
Brad went to Cornell University and studied operations research then Industrial Engineering. Neither of which has very much to do with a spell-checking software.
Do you know what brad has to do to make that check? Nothing. It comes to him from me and every one of the many people who use the service he created. Hell, he probably made a few hundred while I was typing this on his system.
Had Brad stuck to his current path he would have carved out a decent living with an average salary of $143,850 instead he has millions.
Take a look at your post.
My ultimate goal... going to college.
After financial aid would be awarded
I could pay $35k from savings, and probably another $20k as I worked throughout college
That will leave me with $15k in debt if all goes well.
My goal is to go into business
ultimately own my own business, which does not require a degree.
You are a sheep wondering if it's better to eat the grass or the pellets fed to you before you are snipped for wool. Neither choice matters, and you are stuck in a pen.
With that said, I hope you listen to this advice and find a way to make some real money, not play with plans to have fifteen thousand dollars of debt if all goes well.
The advantages and disadvantages of college?
If it's your goal to go to college to climb that corporate ladder only to waste your life away doing meaningless nothing in a cubical for 10 to 20 vacation days a year, you've got a rock-solid plan.
But this is an entrepreneur forum, not a college admissions club. And I'll tell you secret worth its weight in gold. You don't need a college degree to get a good job. You think you do because other people think you do, but it is possible to work for a respectable company that pays what others consider ''rich.''
The rich thing is people don't wake up from this fallacy of working until you die.
And when you get in the liquor club of the people with money, you will realize they have crystal glasses while you are drinking from a glass, because greed is never-ending, so don't try to out-pace it.
If you wanted to be a doctor, I could understand needing college. But you plan to ''start a business.'' This is a waste of time.
What you SHOULD do is stop focusing on getting ''A college degree'' and find a way to make bank while you enjoy life.
Note that I said while you enjoy life, not in between the 15 minutes your job permits you to pee.
Let's take Grammarly. I can't write worth a crap, so Grammarly gets my money,$139.95 annually without even thinking about it. So do many people who use that software meaning means Brad Hoover, The CEO of Grammarly, has a net worth of $60 million.
Brad went to Cornell University and studied operations research then Industrial Engineering. Neither of which has very much to do with a spell-checking software.
Do you know what brad has to do to make that check? Nothing. It comes to him from me and every one of the many people who use the service he created. Hell, he probably made a few hundred while I was typing this on his system.
Had Brad stuck to his current path he would have carved out a decent living with an average salary of $143,850 instead he has millions.
Take a look at your post.
My ultimate goal... going to college.
After financial aid would be awarded
I could pay $35k from savings, and probably another $20k as I worked throughout college
That will leave me with $15k in debt if all goes well.
My goal is to go into business
ultimately own my own business, which does not require a degree.
You are a sheep wondering if it's better to eat the grass or the pellets fed to you before you are snipped for wool. Neither choice matters, and you are stuck in a pen.
With that said, I hope you listen to this advice and find a way to make some real money, not play with plans to have fifteen thousand dollars of debt if all goes well.
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