not interested in college

Bad example, because my dad couldn't afford to finish college because he had to support his brothers, sister, and mother so he had to work in a shoe factory, eventually working his way into consulting and making 150K a year. He lost his job and has been unable to find work for over 2 years SOLELY BECAUSE HE DOESN'T HAVE A COLLEGE DEGREE despite 25 years in the business. IBM turned him down on the grounds that he doesn't have a college degree. That's it.

What might have worked in years past will not work now. It's progressively harder and harder to find work without college. My dad is applying for manager jobs that only pay 70K a year and is still getting turned down because of not having college.

 

I went to college for a while and came so close to getting a BS in biology, I was on deans list every year and had a 4.0/4.0 grade point until two years ago. I met a great guy and totally slacked, then I started to push him away thinking it was his falt I was faltering, but then I realised if I could be so easily distracted from this thing that was supposed to be my great dream (being a biology prof), was it really so important to me? It turned out I wasn't happy and I was heading down a rode that wasn't going to make me happy. Now I'm married to that great guy, soon we'll have land of our own and horses and goats and live self sufficiently off the land, which has always been my dream but I thought it wasn't possible in this day and age.

Having said that, college can be very important, depending on what you really want to do with your life. The key is to think very carefully about what you want in the future, if you have to go to college for it then go, if you can't make yourself get through it then its probably not the right dream in the first place. And remember, people change and so will you, so don't have a nervous breakdown if you look up and find you're in a place you don't want to be, its a perfect place to reasses and go into a new direction, but whatever you do, don't keep going in a direction you hate because it's familiar; its a total waste of your too short time on earth.

Rowan