Affiliate marketers and school

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DreamMachine said:
Completely agree, however getting a degree is supposed to prove that exact point (that you can think critically) to a potential employer.
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Yeah, but there are all sorts of idiotic jobs that don't pay much that only demand a degree because there are so many people with degrees who can't get good jobs.

There is a columnist on LewRockwell.com, his name is Gary North, and he did a great article a year or two ago on WalMart getting into academic accreditation. With their knack for relentless efficiency, degree programs could be condensed and done at a fraction of the cost.

I'm not saying it is desirable or even doable. But I think outside the box. Most people I meet think inside boxes.

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It also proves you can start something and then finish it to the satisfaction of an 'external auditor' (ie. the school/university).
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I would rather hire someone who was smart enough to know he could make more money outside of school, than someone who rode it out and passed up opportunities just for the sake of completion.

The people who admire these so-called virtues over a self-interested employee are people who are trying to hire folks who will take orders and not make the manager look bad.

I want to hire people that make me look bad. I want to hire people who want to take the manager's job. I want to hire people who inspire and motivate me, not people whom I have to direct and motivate because one of their key attributes is a capacity to follow instruction.
 


School took 20k of my money (more once I start paying back the loan). I transferred to a Thai uni after being at Webster University. What a fuggin joke. Now I work all day and just walk into the classroom to get my name checked (yeah... they still care about that shit here) and so I can take a nice nap. I've done about 30 minutes of homework the past year and still have a gpa above 3.0. School's a joke, but I just do it for the visa to stay here.
 
university taught me how to drink and research both of which are useful now.

aside from that it showed me what I never want to be apart of (office culture).

I did well in school and considered grad school but I'd rather enjoy my 20's.
 
Elementary school - wow I'm really learning all this new stuff! I could really see myself applying all of these valuable skills in my future! I hope I get home in time to watch pokemon today.

Middle school - Dividing fractions? WTF man my cell phone has a calculator for that. Oh man, not another boner! Why can't I control this raging monster? I hope I don't get called up this time...

High school - Yea dawg these home economics bitches be fine as hell. Hey, do you think I should stomp on her left toe or the right one? I read the post on the internet about how girls like jerks but I just want to make sure I do it right.
 
I had my last day of school this tuesday. Swiss apprenticeship in IT blah blah programmer. So glad everything is over. Finally going full time with AM!
 
I didn't try hard at all and had a 4.0 average when i graduated from college. Just the same way I live my daily life/business life, I was always on time and never missed a day.

...I can't say college was particularly useful though.

By The Way: this doesnt mean that in high school i wasnt ALWAYS in some fucking sort of trouble!
 
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Hah, don't get me started..

Around 4th grade I started hanging out with "the wrong kids" and severely started slacking. Developed more and more of a 'fuck school' attitude and spent most of the time trying to do shit in class to make everyone laugh. Me and my friends would constantly get in trouble for insulting teachers, damage school property and shit..

(I'll never forget sitting in the principal's office having to explain why I had drawn a somewhat realistic poster of two naked dudes getting it on for our "AIDS-awareness week", lol)

This lasted all the way till 8th grade. My grades were in the toilet and everyone just knew I was headed for burger-flippin' for the rest of my life.

In 9th grade, I decided to straighten up my act, and picked up the pieces to achieve a good GPA for high school.

Long story short - I ended up with a BS in computer science and 1 course short of having my Master's degree due to a life-changing event in the family.

In retrospect - I have learned more USEFUL, APPLICABLE stuff in the last few years than I ever did in college.
 
when I was 9 I remember asking my dad if I had to go to college and he said "yea, unless you start your own business" --- that always stuck in my mind
 
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Hah, don't get me started..

Around 4th grade I started hanging out with "the wrong kids" and severely started slacking. Developed more and more of a 'fuck school' attitude and spent most of the time trying to do shit in class to make everyone laugh. Me and my friends would constantly get in trouble for insulting teachers, damage school property and shit..

(I'll never forget sitting in the principal's office having to explain why I had drawn a somewhat realistic poster of two naked dudes getting it on for our "AIDS-awareness week", lol)

This lasted all the way till 8th grade. My grades were in the toilet and everyone just knew I was headed for burger-flippin' for the rest of my life.

In 9th grade, I decided to straighten up my act, and picked up the pieces to achieve a good GPA for high school.

Long story short - I ended up with a BS in computer science and 1 course short of having my Master's degree due to a life-changing event in the family.

In retrospect - I have learned more USEFUL, APPLICABLE stuff in the last few years than I ever did in college.
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So do you wish you hadn't gone? The problem with this kind of question using WF members as a control group is that there seems to be a false dichotomy in many people's head of "entrepreneurship" vs. "school".

Why not do both? The right school provides an irreplaceable life experience. I wouldn't trade my school experience for $100 Billion dollars.

I think the issue is that school is lacking in some ways in that it doesn't do an adequate enough job to cultivate the talents of autodidacts - people who are self learned.

Also, let's face it, alot of people with financial success and no degree, once they get in certain social circles they have a huge chip on their shoulder and look terribly insecure.

Of course this is not ALL mind you. Also, these days, once can get college credit for life experience, so why not?

It's like not marrying someone you love and live with - why not get the advantages and not have to worry about the other stuff?

Of course I know I am talking to a Norwegian so your friends who have sambos probably don't get that logic (is sambo a norwegian word, eller??)
 
riddarhusetgal said:
Of course I know I am talking to a Norwegian so your friends who have sambos probably don't get that logic (is sambo a norwegian word, eller??)
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Do you mean "samboere" ? Samboere is two people that live together but aren't married.
 
Mr. Lahey: Why don't you get a life Rick? Why don't ya go to community college like Julian here. Hey, I got a good idea. You could teach, livin' in a car and growin' dope 101.

Ricky: Hehe. And you can teach how to get drunk, get fired from the police force become a... lousy trailer park supervisor that sucks, hangs around with a fuckin' idiot that doesn't wear a shirt and looks like a dick but thinks he looks good... 101.
 
Dun worry, the American's public education system is nothing more then a filtering mechanism to slot people into pre-determined slave jobs.
 
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SEO_Mike said:
Graduated high school in the bottom half of the class. Basically, school was too boring for me. I could sleep through class and still get A's on the tests, so that was the only thing that saved my ass from failing completely.
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Same here. Up until grade 10 I was a 95% student (we don't have GPAs in Canada) across the board, then I guess something hit me, never went to class anymore, didn't hand a single assignment in, not showing up for tests, and at the end of the semester I'd throw together the final eval project in a night, get 90% on it, go to the exam without studying and get 95, resulting in barely squeezing by.

I didn't even bother finishing high school because it's such a joke, I still need 2 credits out of 30 for my diploma and I don't really care to get it. I might get it through correspondence one day, but not in the near future.

Fuck school.

I'm a sophomore in high school. I get decent grades - my GPA is about 3.0 I think, but I fucking hate it.

Here's an example of how fucked up the public school system is (btw, keep in mind that I actually go to one of the top schools in my state - best teachers, best average GPA's, etc):

A few weeks ago, it was a Wednesday I think, I came in to school at about 8:25 (it starts at 8). Here is a rundown of my schedule for that day:

----1st period - watch a movie about China that we have seen 4 fucking times. Our teacher is fucking retarded and doesn't remember that we have watched it. We never say anything because we don't have to do shit when she plays it.

----2nd period - watch a segment of Mr. Bean (yeah, really), and follow up with an intriguing lecture on how to properly use the comma - in 10th fucking grade.

----3rd period - watch the magic school bus. No joke.

----4th period - sit around and talk. The teacher wasn't even in the room.

----5th period - work on pinatas that we were making. Why? No fucking clue.

----6th period - relax and fuck around while the teacher talks on the phone for about 45 minutes.

Then I went home and did stuff that actually mattered.
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Yep, that's how school is over here too. The most thought provoking moment of my entire school career was probably watching Dead Poet's Society while my teacher read Cosmo or some other equally trashy magazine.
 
For you guys in school - Do you plan to work for others in the future? Why not use "am" as leverage for entrepreneurship? Whats your reason for job training? Job security? Something stable?

I don't have a problem with anyone going that route, I just find peoples answers interesting.
 
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