Thinking of dropping out of college

I say do it man.  If it doesn't work out you can always go back to college.

Think a lot and follow your heart

I think dropping out of college would be a huge mistake.

Just my opinion.

A friend of mine owns a record store, has for 20 years or more. He says the business is slowing down year by year. Between downloading and the big box stores, there's little chance of a small record store making it today. I sympathize with you, owning a record store was once a dream of mine too. Stay in school, today you need an education more than ever.Remember, the job you'll end up doing if you leave school, will be the job you'll be doing for the rest of your life. Dead end.Take it from someone who knows, please, stay in school.

A second thought:

I remember a conversation with a friend a while back, where we discussed the possiblity that the largest and most common predjudice in America is lack of education.  You can be as smart as the next guy, but if he has a the paperwork to prove it, he'll get the job, not you.  In fact, the smartest man i know doesn't have a college degree, and knows more than i can ever hope to, but he can't get a better job than the one he has because he doesnt have the diploma.

Stay in college definitely ... I got into a pretty decent one at age 16 (same one as Golden Spiral actually) ... but had a burnout and quit after scraping (in a pretty stoned manner) through my first two years ..

I didn't regret it at the time, but from time to time, I do now (and in fact might be enrolling in a work-related Masters program later this year) ... mainly cos I'm worried about what might happen in the event of a recession ...

Getting a degree does affect your life and the choices you will have ... The chances that you have to take orders from fools will greatly increase if you don't get those qualifications ...

Don't.

BelewsBrother wrote: I'm only half-way done with my first semester of undergrad, but the courses in my program of study don't look promising or even interesting. I've always wanted to own my own record store, so I'm thinking of picking up two part time jobs--working 50 to 60 hours a week between the two of them, and then leasing a place to start up a store. What do you guys think?

Let me be honest with you: DON'T RUSH.

I have a lot of very successful friends who left the University and they regret today.

Maybe you will never use your career, but at least you have a title, it's worth, not only for the rest of the world, but for you.

You can't imagine how good it feels when you recieve your diploma, it's something you earned by yourself. If you still want to own a record store, go on, but after you finish your career.

And remember, with all the piracy, MP3 and illegal sharing, owning a record store is not very promissing, if you add the big chain stores that will try to destroy you, it will be at least as hard as College.

I don't want to destroy your dreams, but the real world is hard,  give yourself a chance.

But at the end is your choice, I only ask you...THINK IT WELL!!!!!

Iván

 

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M

Just another thing, we don't have College, but in my University we have to study two years of many other subjects.

My first semester I had to study:

1. Math 101
2. Language
3. Sociology
4. World History 101
5. Methiodology

I asked myself: Why in hell do I have to study this cr*p if I want to be a fu**ing Lawyer????

Do I need to know in what year the Roman Empire fell to defend a client or where to place a comma and and an accent??? (Of course everything was necessary, but only understood it later).

But after I finished this first semester things changed, I had more freedom to choose electoive classes and activities, and then in Laws Faculty it was even better.

Don't quit before you reach the interesting stuff.

Iván

BelewsBrother wrote: I'm only half-way done with my first semester of undergrad, but the courses in my program of study don't look promising or even interesting. I've always wanted to own my own record store, so I'm thinking of picking up two part time jobs--working 50 to 60 hours a week between the two of them, and then leasing a place to start up a store. What do you guys think?

I think you live in a f***ing fantasy land.

You didn't just say records did you?

Courses not looking promising? well change them. You will not have this sort of flexibility later on. If you like music so much why not study it? or become a sound engineer. Through my own observations, it looks like jobs are things people have to have to survive and you're going to hate doing whatever you are doing eventually, so stay in bloody school so you can get a decent job that you may only half-hate because no one gets off the work slavery hook that easy.