graduated with an advanced regents diploma in '05… haven’t gone to college yet, spent the last 3 years clearing up all the stupid shit I did in HS… I plan on letting the army pay for college, leaving for that in ~3 weeks… currently only own a suburban, so not much modification going on there… I’m hoping to find a nice M3 or Z for my next car which i’ll be using most of my signing bonus for
i’m the first male on my dads side to graduate high school. my dad and g-pa both cleared 100k the past few years. they are self employed general contractors with a couple crews going at a time. they def. work their asses off and unfortunately have no retirement plan since they spend money like water.
in college, even though im basically set where i am without a degree. but i dont give a shit, having my degree will net me a ton more $$ where im at now and if anything ever happens i dont have to worry about being screwed that i didnt go to college and finish my degree
i mod a honda and a cobalt
i graduated with a diploma and i’m starting school in the fall. just got accepted 
and i’m under 20 lol.
well im 22 dropped out of HS. have a honda with about $9k into it… a jeep with about $16k invested in it.
Joined the Army National Guard at 18 all now of you tax payers are giving me about $50k a year between my job as a heavy equipment technician and being on drilling status.
and if i wanted to go to school i could… for free an actually make about $550 a month to do it
so ill make myself an exception to that rule.
LOL you went into the wrong career feild…
678 a month + 20K in loans paid for + tuition paid for + another 300 on drill status… :loopie:
wait is that what you’re getting paid by the af?? I thought you were currently active, must be reserve if only getting a $678 base…
I’m not sure what GI bill is now it was just a guess since i don’t use it. Army would have paid for any loans i had, but i didn’t have any. Tuition would be free if i were to go to school. My drill pay is also close to $300 for a MUTA 4. And my job as a tech is only available to people in the army national guard… Sooo im happy with my career choice
it may have taken me 5 years to get a 4 year degree, but, in 1 month i will have that piece of paper 
and then it starts all over with graduate school :picard:
Word, I finish in December… Then its a six month disappearing act before the dual masters degree 
ugh fuck dual masters…my single master’s in social work is going to be enough of a bitch.
i tried that overachiever bullshit in undergrad declaring a triple minor with my major…and while i did get it, i had to take all specific courses, no room to take anything but…and it was a huge pain not only making schedules every semester, but actually having to take all real courses…most of my friends/other psych majors used the 15 or 20 allowed electives to take bullshit easy filler courses…
that was more than enough for me…
Economics Masters and an MBA is gonna be fun stuff. :sario:
Graduated.
Not into Hondas or much of anything lately except saving.
I’m 23 and I’ve got a full time job fixing electronics.
I think this area in general has me afraid of the failboat,the number people I know who have a degree and make ~$10 an hour and owe $xx,xxx in loans is downright scary.I don’t want to end up like that,I would’ve too…I had my sights set on the IT field.
Lately I’ve got no idea as to what I want to do.
FWIW - I don’t have a high-school diploma…
Five Reasons To Skip College
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College is expensive. Four years at an elite university like Princeton or Harvard will set you back around $160,000.
That’s a lot of money, but consider the benefits: The professors, the coursework, the people you’ll meet and the invaluable experiences you’ll have. And, of course, the bottom line: You’ll earn more money afterward. In fact, on average, the holder of a four-year college degree will earn 62% more over their lifetimes than a typical high-school graduate. And that’s just on average. The return on investment for attending one of the nation’s 25 or so most selective colleges is far more impressive. Money well spent, right?
Well, not necessarily.
Click here to see five reasons not to go to college.
Although there is clearly a correlation between earnings and a four-year degree, a correlation isn’t the same thing as a cause. Economists like Robert Reischauer ruffled feathers several years ago by pointing out that talented, driven kids are more likely to go to college in the first place–that they succeed, in other words, because of their innate abilities, not because of their formal education. Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), certainly doesn’t fit the stereotype of a low paid college dropout.
In fact, more than a couple of billionaires never graduated from college. Larry Ellison, cofounder of database giant Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), dropped out of the University of Illinois and is now worth $16 billion. Fellow billionaire John Simplot, inventor of the frozen French fry, never even finished high school. Neither did Alan Gerry, who built the first cable television network in upstate New York and then sold it to Time Warner Cable Cable for $2.8 billion.
In fact, there is plenty of evidence that what really matters is how smart you are, not where–or even if–you went to school. According to a number of studies, small differences in SAT scores, which you take before going to college, correlate with measurably higher incomes. And, according to a report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, the lifetime income of high-school dropouts is directly associated with their scores on a battery of intelligence tests.
By this logic, the real economic value in a Princeton degree is not the vaunted Princeton education, but in signaling potential employers that you are smart enough to get into Princeton. Actually, attending the classes is irrelevant. A few years back, we even went so far as to speculate that an entrepreneur could build a healthy businesses by charging, say $16,000, to certify qualified high-school graduates as Ivy League material. (See: “ Is Yale A Waste Of Money?”) College-skippers could invest the $144,000 savings and have a nice nest-egg built up by the time they are in their mid-30s. And they could use their formative years between 18 and 22 to learn an actual trade.
For, in truth, most professions–journalism, software engineering, sales, and trading stocks to name but a few–depend far more on “on-the-job” education than on classroom learning. Until relatively recently, lawyers, architects and pharmacists learned their trade through apprenticeship, not through higher education.
Certainly some jobs–medical doctors and university professors–require formal education. But many do not, and between the Internet and an excellent public library system, most Americans can learn pretty much anything for a nominal fee. By all means, go to college if you want the “university experience,” but don’t spend all that cash just on the assumption that it will lead you to a higher-paying job
^Well that’s a steaming pile of anecdotal evidence passed off as “proof” that college is worthless.
One reason to wish your daddy had connections to get you a job, so you can post about expensive watches and just generally be a cock sucker
ohhhhhh face!
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^ I have been saying that for a while now.
Obviously doctors, etc need college BUT…
While that is true about Joe:biglaugh:, you can make a great living without spending $160,000 on college.
My plumber charged me $14,000 for two weeks work and I figure there was only about $2600 in material.