Who went to college.. and who dropped out?
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So go to community college for the first three years for $4.5k/yr and then go to some nice ass college for one year, as long as the degree has the nice ass college's name on it it's good to go!
plenty of jobs here in NY that pay 6+ figures. I once met a structural engineer who was making $300/hour, and I'm sure there's people that make even more. Ask Jon what his family/friends make, his old man is in property management.
I started out working for one of the biggest framers on the west coast and he sold out to basically the biggest homebuilder in the country. The owner of the company that bought us out is in the forbes 400 that was posted earlier. I am the senior estimator and oversee all of the billing, cost estimates, material and labor budgets and all of the other boring bullshit that comes along with that. Been doing it for 6 years now. I bust my ass for it. Most of the posting I do on here during the day is during conference calls and crap.
Dropped out after a semester, decided to try it again, dropped out again because it was wasting money making time, now I'm just taking classes online just because I want the degree. I can't stand the shit though.
IC, I use to sub-contract sheet rock, roofing and never made close to $xxx,xxx, well actually im wrong made $90,000's.
I can relate to that. I tried to go back and take some community college classes and they wanted me to test in to algebra again, they have my act and sat scores on file which tested me in to any class I wanted to take, but since it's been two years I have to retest. Fuck that. I went through calculus in highschool and rocked my act and sat scores... proved myself once don't need to do it again to pay you fucking money.
Keep in mind that the cost of living in new york is probably a lot higher than here. But yeah, engineer's make all kinds of bank. I deal with them alot and there fee's are absolutely outrageous.
How many houses a year though? We did the concrete, framed, made the trusses, plumbed and trimmed almost 500 houses last month.
Sounds like what I would have done had I been old enough at the time. I was a freshman and sophmore in higschool! Coding in VB making "AOL Proggies" to spam aol e-mails, and the sort. Yes, back in the day I was a spammer, not proud of it but hey what other highschoolers were pulling in $500 a day and getting checks from "BabeCash" and more.
I remember when I told my mother; she told me as long as it was "legal" it was ok. Well it was legal since not many laws were out yet but I don't know how legal it was for them to "hire" and pay a 14/15 year old.
Those were the days of HUGE pay-outs and they weren't filtering out signups at the end of hte month either. Few thousand open relays and millions of e-mails in a txt file and you were set.
Hell, if you live a country where there are no spam laws you could still do this pretty easily. (Except most adult places will can you now and not pay!)
Anyway... back on topic.
I got my associates degree after 5 years of on/off just because I wanted to have SOMETHING to show. I only did what I needed to to pass a class. I never studied or spent more than an hour outside of class per-week for a class, sometimes an hour a month depending on the class. Speaches i'd write-up the night before and memorize. All B's except one D in sociology... supposedly getting a D was good because it ment I had different views than the teacher.. Oh-WELL!
I've only held 1 other job in my life other than my own stuff and that was still related in the end... I guess I'm a product of BBS, AOL and the Internet :338:
Nothing like that it was me and my brother in law, a couple jobs a week was the norm.
Finishing up my BA in Graphic Design this spring. Only took me 5 years 
(I dicked around way to much my first year)
(I dicked around way to much my first year)
You can probably make $50-$75 per hour if you work for the union construction or electrician companies here. I was raised to hate them, because they would always protest in front of my dad's buildings when he'd hire a private construction company instead of those douchebag, mob run unions who charge more for less quality work. My father doesn't do property management, although one of the companies he owns is a property manag one, but it only manages the properties he owns with his partners.
If you're ever in Brooklyn, there is an area called DUMBO. My father and his partners created that place.
Also.. my dad is entirely self made and also a college dropout. It seems to run in the family with the oldest born sons.
I did college & university. University took me way too long! Too much fun with parties, nightlife, etc. heh. I did my thesis about ICT ("internet threat or opportunity for the local travel agency?") which was nominated by the Direct Marketing Association in Holland. So at the end I finished university (1999) with a good feeling because of that! 
Anyway it was the best time of my life, so much fun! My best friends are from university time & I know them already for 13 years now. All of them came to my wedding here in Israel, where I live since 2000, a few years ago...
Anyway it was the best time of my life, so much fun! My best friends are from university time & I know them already for 13 years now. All of them came to my wedding here in Israel, where I live since 2000, a few years ago...
I took my first year. Now I have to go back and retake Math 12 because I missed the mark by 2%. Not bad, considering I got the whole year free while finishing highschool, and I only missed the Math mark because I had to take college courses and Math in a fraction (very small fraction) of the amount of time that other people get.
I've always been a horrible student. My last "real" year of education was 7th grade... since then I've been through any fuck-up program they could find to put me in. I eventually got dropped from an independent study program junior year of HS, but I managed to get my diploma by taking an exit exam... so technically, I still graduated, just never walked.
I've considered college, but I'd have to start at a community college, and I doubt my experience would be much different then all the other times. I just can't keep my focus long enough to do well in school.
I never plan on working for anybody but myself, so a degree would do next to nothing for me. I feel I'll be a lot better off spending the 4+ years on my own projects, rather than a degree that I'd never do anything with.
I've considered college, but I'd have to start at a community college, and I doubt my experience would be much different then all the other times. I just can't keep my focus long enough to do well in school.
I never plan on working for anybody but myself, so a degree would do next to nothing for me. I feel I'll be a lot better off spending the 4+ years on my own projects, rather than a degree that I'd never do anything with.
I went to college(uni) got a degree(BSc) in internet computing.
it was full time 3 years of teaching and 1 year of working in industry, if u do a degree try and get some industry as it will help you latter on after graduation. I learnt a lot and made some good freinds although I think that it a lot of it was a waste of time as I Was studying shit like profesionalism and ethics in computing and writing essays on id cards. I liked doing all the web stuff on the course even the architecture but I didnt like it when it was non web related.
it was full time 3 years of teaching and 1 year of working in industry, if u do a degree try and get some industry as it will help you latter on after graduation. I learnt a lot and made some good freinds although I think that it a lot of it was a waste of time as I Was studying shit like profesionalism and ethics in computing and writing essays on id cards. I liked doing all the web stuff on the course even the architecture but I didnt like it when it was non web related.
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