# The I'm still in college because I don't want to get a real job yet thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 28, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205 "2011-08-28T17:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![slwrthnu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slwrthnu/32/6296_2.png) [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/161 "2012-01-11T11:10:16Z")
> [@ANOTHER COOL WAY TO COOK BACON](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/another-cool-way-to-cook-bacon/47799/17): > > :hug must get into law school. must get into law school…hey do u know if mcdonalds is hiring? ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/162 "2012-01-11T12:55:37Z")
Business loans are harder to get than College. Case and point, look at the news, the Gov handed out more money for college than ever before. Making it easier to send kids to college. Its no longer a “I want to get in XXX school” thing. Its a “Hey Joe Blow WE (insert university here) want YOU!!!.” Because guess what, the college is a BUSINESS! If the “customers” are being handed money left and right to spend on school, hell yeah they will pull in what ever students they can. That leads to over population on campuses, crowded classrooms, lesser quality, more quantity education. Its not hard AT ALL to get a degree, read book, study, cheat, what ever it takes to pass the test. WAY MORE degrees are handed out more than ever to piss poor students. Which brings me back to the business part. My company wants to hire and gets flooded with Joe Blows all with the same resume. 1-6 years of school, zero to very little experience. I would hire the dude with a bunch of experience over the book reader experienced dude with an expensive piece of paper, if I wanted the work to actually get done and done correctly. No offense but kids like the OP are the biggest reason for this fucked up younger economy and job market. ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/163 "2012-01-11T13:03:37Z")
> [@FS: Precious Moment $15](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-precious-moment-15/47540/12): > > I do what I love to do and make shit for it compared to some others I know. Yet i’m still happy, I have fun and enjoy it. > > Now im at a point where I’m making some big strides and will be potentially opening myself up to be making some good money and turning this business I run into something bigger and better. > > With any luck in the next year or so after the owener/my boss gets some of his paperwork that hes slacked on straightened out we can look on expanding. We are at a point right now to where we have more work then we can handle, **have trouble finding competent people to work for us** You aren’t the only ones. And how many applicants come in young with a flashy degree no experience and cant pass an interview full of real world work examples/questions. Most of the smartest, best working, quality producing, WELL PAID people I know have little to NO degree. And to further solidify my theory, I know MANY people with major degrees, working in unrelated fields, have unsteady employment, lack luster performance and are struggling. 9 times out of ten it boils down to the person. You want to be successful, you will be, if you think success is handed to you at graduation the unemployment line is to the left. ---
**Author:** ![6SPD\_S4](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/6spd_s4/32/6326_2.png) [@6SPD\_S4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/6SPD_S4)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/164 "2012-01-11T13:45:31Z")
I will be the first in my immediate family to get a bachelors degree, and guess what, I’m going to law school as well… Damn it feels good to be a gangsta :banana ---
**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/165 "2012-01-11T13:46:28Z")
I’m going to college for the sole reason to outsmart people on Shift518. ---
**Author:** ![capitalcrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@capitalcrew](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/capitalcrew)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/166 "2012-01-11T13:46:48Z")
That’s why google is my homepage. ---
**Author:** ![RTrac1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rtrac1/32/6312_2.png) [@RTrac1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RTrac1)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/167 "2012-01-11T13:50:55Z")
Benny and I are pretty much a shoe-in for a nobel prize says our professor, Dr. Mario ---
**Author:** ![slwrthnu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slwrthnu/32/6296_2.png) [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/168 "2012-01-11T14:25:17Z")
I had a 3 year break from school and the students have deff changed a lot in that tume. Kind of depressing. ---
**Author:** ![bennyfizzle](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bennyfizzle/32/6291_2.png) [@bennyfizzle](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bennyfizzle)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/169 "2012-01-12T09:00:59Z")
> [@FYI: $150 off installation of New Weber Gas Grills (BBQ) - update](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fyi-150-off-installation-of-new-weber-gas-grills-bbq-update/47838/7): > > Benny and I are pretty much a shoe-in for a nobel prize says our professor, Dr. Mario I got an A- :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl ---
**Author:** ![RTrac1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rtrac1/32/6312_2.png) [@RTrac1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RTrac1)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/170 "2012-01-12T10:21:26Z")
:eek3 ---
**Author:** ![Skidplate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skidplate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skidplate)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 11:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/171 "2012-01-12T11:17:47Z")
im going to a technical school like UTI or wyotech. ---
**Author:** ![K20power](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/41988e/32.png) [@K20power](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/K20power)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/172 "2012-01-12T11:42:17Z")
Well that’s a waste ---
**Author:** ![Murrdog9000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/murrdog9000/32/6391_2.png) [@Murrdog9000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Murrdog9000)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/173 "2012-01-12T11:55:10Z")
:rofl ---
**Author:** ![99FRC](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/99frc/32/6335_2.png) [@99FRC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/99FRC)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/174 "2012-01-12T12:25:15Z")
The major problem that I see is that people go to school without knowing what they want to do so they take a general course. Let me just say that if you are going to college for the piece of paper they give you so you can get a job, then you are doing it wrong. If people went to college for the sole purpose of learning and increasing your overall knowledge things would be different. Instead, most people I know sign up for Lib Arts or Business or Psych, and then fail or do poorly because they are to involved with partying or other bullshit. They care more about the experience than learning. Then when they graduate they have the same degree that a million other people have, didn’t learn jack shit, and can’t find anyone to hire them. It took me a bit of trial and error but once I learned that I love working with IT I went all out. Now I have a cushy 9-5 job, amazing benefits, a super flexible boss, my business on the side which makes me as much money as my 9-5’r and I actually learned something when I went to school. Just my .02 ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 12:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/175 "2012-01-12T12:35:39Z")
> [@whats up kids:)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/whats-up-kids/47861/17): > > Well that’s a waste Yep ---
**Author:** ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/176 "2012-01-12T12:37:44Z")
Exactly 99. I didnt fuck off in school becasue I did what school is supposed to be for and got an education I used, and have worked in that field, non-stop for the last 8 years. Got laid off twice from loss of contract (nothing I did wrong) found jobs instantly and was back to work with in 1-3 weeks. Now if I were to go back to college, it would be just to fuck off and make up for lost time! LOL ---
**Author:** ![slwrthnu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slwrthnu/32/6296_2.png) [@slwrthnu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slwrthnu)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 3:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/177 "2012-01-12T15:46:24Z")
> [@Double rainbow](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/double-rainbow/47862/9): > > The major problem that I see is that people go to school without knowing what they want to do so they take a general course. > > Let me just say that if you are going to college for the piece of paper they give you so you can get a job, then you are doing it wrong. > > If people went to college for the sole purpose of learning and increasing your overall knowledge things would be different. Instead, most people I know sign up for Lib Arts or Business or Psych, and then fail or do poorly because they are to involved with partying or other bullshit. They care more about the experience than learning. Then when they graduate they have the same degree that a million other people have, didn’t learn jack shit, and can’t find anyone to hire them. > > It took me a bit of trial and error but once I learned that I love working with IT I went all out. Now I have a cushy 9-5 job, amazing benefits, a super flexible boss, my business on the side which makes me as much money as my 9-5’r and I actually learned something when I went to school. > > Just my .02 sometimes it takes a few tries, but you gotta find something you like, couldn’t agree more. seeing as i have had 4 majors lol…and 2 minors. ---
**Author:** ![JRubino](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jrubino/32/6285_2.png) [@JRubino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JRubino)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/178 "2012-01-12T18:30:49Z")
> [@i got smoked (not too bad though)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/i-got-smoked-not-too-bad-though/47859/15): > > im going to a technical school like UTI or wyotech. Went to UTI and dropped out after 8 months. That place was a fucking joke! ---
**Author:** ![Dread](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dread/32/6544_2.png) [@Dread](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dread)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/179 "2012-01-12T19:13:33Z")
> [@risk + simcity with a pinch of civilization for good measure](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/risk-simcity-with-a-pinch-of-civilization-for-good-measure/46848/1104): > > im not brainwashed, you are lol… Your parents parents went to college, your parents went to college and now you are/did. Thats all youll ever know and thats all youll ever tell your kids. > > Im actually NOT saying a degree isnt good to have, but rather IF your going to spend the outrageous money that so many people are it just isnt worth it… You obviously did something correct to not be a dollar in debt and I congratulate you, I swear I do. This being said the kind of degree you have and what you went to school for also pays a HUGE roll in going or not going to college. TONS of people will NEVER EVER get a job in the field that they went to school for. > > Last, Electronics are about 8% of my business, precious metals are the remaining 92%… $150k isnt shit and my business makes faaaarrrr more then that. Ill hop in the trenches with L4B on this one, I get a kick out of guys doing the 9-5 grind calling an entrepreneur brainwashed. ---
**Author:** ![GermanPSI](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/germanpsi/32/6353_2.png) [@GermanPSI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GermanPSI)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205/180 "2012-01-12T19:34:05Z")
LOL, I’m the first in my family to get a degree so L4B your wrong again. You on the other hand have followed your fathers dishonest and sketchy footsteps quite well [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205.md?page=8) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-im-still-in-college-because-i-dont-want-to-get-a-real-job-yet-thread/260205.md?page=10)