Looks like i'm going back to school. I must be losing it!

One of my older entrepreneur friends (76 years old) always reminds me of how many college graduates he has hired over the years at min wage to work in his businesses sweeping floors and doing clerical work.

His favorites are MBA students who come in with a big ego and then don't know the first thing to do because they are book worms and not business people.
 


deStone said:
I want to go back to school -- but attend UK this time.... however, this is simply so I can get student tickets to the UK basketball home games...
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Gotta love the student perks. I guess now I can buy Adobe shit for the student prices instead of the normal inflated prices they charge for all their software.
 
I'm surprised at how many of you here let the women in their lives interpret and decide what's best for YOUR LIFE.

Time is the most important asset you'll ever have and you're letting someone who doesn't have the knowledge you all have make critical decisions regarding your use of it.

That's a dangerous recipe for future resentment and arguments, even more so than taking a stand for what you believe in. If your spouse is concerned, communicate until she understands of course.

If you bend to her will, you lose your own. Your choice.
 
zimok said:
I'm surprised at how many of you here let the women in their lives interpret and decide what's best for YOUR LIFE.

Time is the most important asset you'll ever have and you're letting someone who doesn't have the knowledge you all have make critical decisions regarding your use of it.

That's a dangerous recipe for future resentment and arguments, even more so than taking a stand for what you believe in. If your spouse is concerned, communicate until she understands of course.

If you bend to her will, you lose your own. Your choice.
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I go both ways on this.

On one side... my degree is absolutely WORTHLESS to me right now.

But on the other end... it's something I'm proud of and happy to have, and it got me a job where I was able to save enough to comfortably quit said job and do this SEO Empire thing...

Good luck!
 
Props to you if thats what you really want to do with your time.

Here's some food for thought though. All these people dropped out of college, or didn't go at all.

Sir Richard Branson

Estimated net worth: 8.6 billion USD
Sir Branson left school when he was only 16. Ironically, his first successful business was publishing a magazine called Student.

Dean Kamen (RIP)


Estimated net worth: Unclear, but thought to be in the billions USD
Dean Kamen, a prolific and ingenious inventor, dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute before graduating.

Bill Gates

Estimated net worth: 58 billion USD
Bill Gates has topped the Forbes list of “The World’s Richest People” continually since 1995.

Paul Allen

Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD
Paul Allen befriended Bill Gates while they were both attending a private school in Seattle. Allen went on to attend Washington State University, but dropped out after two years.

Ralph Lauren

Estimated net worth: 3.6 billion USD
In high school, Ralph Lauren was known to sell neckties to his fellow students. In his yearbook, he stated that he wanted to be a millionaire. He studied business for two years at Baruch College but never graduated.

Steve Jobs

Estimated net worth: 5.7 billion USD
In addition to being the CEO of Apple Inc, Steve Jobs became the largest individual shareholder of the Walt Disney Company after selling Pixar Animation Studios in 2006. In 2007, he was chosen as Fortune Magazine’s most powerful businessman. That’s quite an honor for someone who dropped out of college after just one semester.

Larry Ellison

Estimated net worth: 18.4 billion USD
In 1977, Larry Ellison put up $2,000 to start what would become Oracle Corporation, the world’s second-largest software company. Ellison briefly attended the University of Illinois as well as the University of Chicago, but received a degree from neither.

Michael Dell

Estimated net worth: 17.2 billion USD
Michael Dell started a computer company called PCs Limited while attending the University of Texas at Austin. It became successful enough that Dell dropped out of school to operate it, and the company eventually became Dell, Inc, with revenues of $57.4 billion in 2007.

Kirk Kerkorian

Estimated net worth: 18.0 billion USD
Kirk Kerkorian dropped out of school in the 8th grade.

Here's another list of people who weren't quite as successful but still more successful than you are that don't have a "degree."

100 Top Entrepreneurs Who Succeeded without a College Degree

Fuck going to college, grind until you can buy a college.
 
If it will make you happy then hell yeah, do it. Who cares what anyone else thinks?

Although, personally, I hate almost everything about school. I hardly showed up to high school, and I secretly revel in revealing this to people whenever I get the opportunity. Most of my friends went to UCLA. I recently got the UCLA alumni Visa card just so I could show it to them and be like "man, they'll give these things to anyone!" That's how petty I am. Fuck school.
 
Remember when I told you bitches I was going back to finish school..well I just finished 6 units for my major this semester and I have one lame writing class I have to take next semester to fulfill an upper division writing requirement. In May 2012 I will be done. What am I going to do then? Same shit I do now. Make money, fuck bitches.

Just didn't want anyone to think I dropped out...again. Stay in school kids and say no to drugs.
 
efeezy said:
Remember when I told you bitches I was going back to finish school..well I just finished 6 units for my major this semester and I have one lame writing class I have to take next semester to fulfill an upper division writing requirement. In May 2012 I will be done. What am I going to do then? Same shit I do now. Make money, fuck bitches.

Just didn't want anyone to think I dropped out...again. Stay in school kids and say no to drugs.
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Congrats ahead of time. I went back to finish my degree awhile back even though I didn't need it. I don't use the degree but it was well worth it.
 
Thanks man. I've had a lot of "why the hell are you bothering when you're never going to use the degree" comments from friends and family, but I would have regretted it my whole life if I hadn't finished, so now I can check it off the list. Aside from the boring lectures, the idiot 20 year old kids that can't form a sentence without including the word "like" 50 times, and the 2 hours of driving for an hour of class, it's been a good experience going back.
 
i dropped out of high school and make 7 figures. hmmm??? lol School wont get you much, unless your like trying to be a fucking dr or lawyer or something along those lines...
 
Dresden14 said:
i dropped out of high school and make 7 figures. hmmm??? lol School wont get you much, unless your like trying to be a fucking dr or lawyer or something along those lines...
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any time I hear this I hit my head against a wall, "durr college sucks" posts get me as bad as debt posts get FTCHater
 
No matter what you do in the IM and related industries, you never know when the whole thing may come crashing down. Anyone in this biz should have a contingency plan. Having a degree is a good part of that plan. It's easy to say it's stupid and I'm never going to need the degree, until you do need it.
 
Congrats efeezybro. I'll be walking across the podium at the same time. I wish you all the best. It's always nice to have that degree in your hand, and to have a qualified, legit fallback in case your IM empire is damaged.
 
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