Why do you keep missing the point. It seems to just float right past you....no offense, but you must be young.
Stay in school and work on your business. Learn stuff applicable to your business. And learn stuff just for the fun of it.
Learning is investing in yourself.
Learning how to learn is the point of school. You may think you have it all figured out, that you`ve learned all you can, or need to learn.
You wouldnt be unique, ALL young people think like that.
Learning how to learn? That sounds like some BS seminar that people get conned $1,000 into paying for. Except really they pay 10's of thousands of dollars because they end up in the fraud known as college.
College is a waste of a person's prime years. The stuff is so outdated as to be absurd. You are "learning" from a bunch of people who never did anything in their life other than take classes themselves.
College isn't the real world, it is the surreal life.
Bussing tables for a year will teach you a whole lot more than four years of schooling.
I was selling on ebay at 13, back before they required credit cards. So many businesses as a young kid I can't even count.
Schooling just inhibited my creativity, it didn't enrich my life at all. I'm glad I dropped out of college after two years, especially with all the morons who were at that school.
Any moron with half a brain can sign up for elance and make decent money writing. That is with no real skills required. Compare that to a 7$ an hour college graduate barista job.
Average salary for college grads is supposedly $46,000 a year. I saw businessweek come out with a figure for starting college graduates at $50,000 a year. I call BS on these figures, especially during a recession.
If you wrote 10,000 words a day 5 days a week, you could make more than the average college graduate, just off of freelance writing.
Anyone with a basic grasp of the English language can make more online than a college graduate.
And when you get good at internet marketing forget about it. The people making the real money are online. Where are all the big deals made? The hot new businesses, all online. That isn't going to change, in fact it is going to increase.
In just a few short years, internet advertising will surpass television advertising.
What you are getting at college is a 19th century education.
College doesn't guarantee you a thing except that you will lose $50,000 minimum to get a piece of paper and spend 4 years of the prime years of your life in boredom.
I am 24 and all I can say is chase your dreams man. Look I was always selling things my entire life. If you are naturally born blackhat or are great at marketing you have to do what you have to do.
A lot of people won't understand, but when you make it, they sure envy the hell out of you. And don't think you won't make it.
But this is exactly the problem. You obviously have
no clue yet you are passing judgement!
Well I never applied myself at school, got average grades and had no plans to stay in education at all. I mean really, I was just like you guys about the whole thing. But I went along to an open day (not really sure why) and got convinced to sign up to a college course - still not believing I was really gonna stick at it. Unlike you American folk, here you leave school at the ripe old age of 16, go onto college until 18 (if you wish), then onto university until 21 (if you wish).
But hey, I not only enjoyed college and stuck with it, but I ended up being the top of my class and I went on to finish a degree. I tell you what, this is the same old argument everyone always has and the simple answer is...
"Your an idiot if you think education is a waste of time, you learn 'how to learn' (really you do), you learn about yourself in ways that would take you 20yrs to figure out otherwise, and it doesn't matter what you say about so-called 'teachers' you still learn from them 95% of the time whether you like to admit it or not"
However...
"If you think that a degree gets you anywhere in life, your also an idiot. Its a piece of paper that actually in the 'real world' means jack all. Why? because most of what you learn is 2 years behind what's used 'in the field' - most of the 'teachers' struggle to keep up to date and just because 'you know how to do something' doesn't mean 'you can do something' in the real world."
Take this forum for example, 100 people could say they are an IM guru based on all the wonderful things they read here, yet not once have they ever actually implemented any of it. Thats why graduates can loose jobs to 'uneducated' people who have spent the same number of years working from the bottom and learning on-the-job. Why? because so many employers would pick someone with 3/4 years experience in a field and no degree over a fresh graduate in a heartbeat. Sad but true.
This is the exact reason why those entering the medical profession must complete x number of years actually working and doing the job (e.g. doctor) in addition to their formal academic study, because there are just some things you cant learn from a book, in a classroom, or even from someone else.
So all-in-all it really comes down to what YOU make of it. For those that feel strongly that education is a waste of time, then it will be. For those who don't, it will be very beneficial. For me, im glad I went, it opened my mind in ways I never thought of, and allowed me to achieve things I never imagined I would. It feels a lifetime ago I went to university and I am actually considering going back to complete another two completely unrelated degree's, ideally one in theoretical astrophysics and the other in electronic/photonic engineering, or similar subjects. They have absolutely no bearing on a career or running my own business, will cost me thousands in tuition fee's, but its just something I want to do.
But to anyone who says at 16 that they know everything and dont need to stay on in education, well everyone else 10+ years or with an education will simply look at you in the same way that you would look at a 5 year old who said the same thing to you!
No offence, but its true... and YOU will be doing the same in 10+ years to a cocky 16 year old regardless of whether you got yourself an education or not. That's just the way life is
I agree that if you want to go to college to learn about a subject just for learnings sake and you are too lazy to check out a book at the library, then go spend your money.
Some of us are autodidacts, we learn on our own just fine. In fact, this is how things were done in America for a couple hundred years before organized schooling.
I did go to school, for two years. I was going to triple major in Biochemistry, Biology, and Chemistry since most of the classes overlap anyway. Definitely not easy material.
Had I graduated what would I be making $50,000? And working like some damn lab rat.
No thanks. I said screw that and went home.
I worked at ToysRUs for 7$ an hour (LOL) and started a business with $80. Two years later I had $90,000 worth of inventory. This is where I learned about the real world. The world where mommy and daddy aren't holding your dick. Where you actually have to pay bills, unlike the magic fairytale land of college where you get drunk and snort drugs, all the while learning about fancy theories and ideas which have no application to real life.
Some people like to snort coke, some like to get laid, others like learning in institutions. If going to college is your thing, then so be it. But if we are talking about making money, let us not kid ourselves.
Some people are just born to do business. Education of the structured kind won't help us to succeed, it just puts roadblocks in our path.
