I really just wanna drop out

I dunno.... tough to dole out thoughtful advice when I wasted so much of my early life half heartedly trying to live up to someone else's income level oriented standards. For me to offer any advice would be to trivialize something that isn't the least bit easy.

It took me a very long time to really learn and apply the ONE piece of wisdom that matters- no matter how much you're making for an income, if you're not happy, you're not successful. I think if your folks are genuinely interested in your well being they will respect your decision to put the whole process on pause so you can step back and assess exactly what direction you're going and whether that is a route you'll be happy to have taken ten or twenty years down the road. A career is something that will monopolize most of your waking hours once you're out of school- best be sure it's doing something with people that enable you to forge an acceptable level of sustainable enjoyment.

If your livelihood is sucking your soul away then you've made a bad decision. It's good to identify problems BEFORE you've settled on a trade or career.

 

Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!

You're having someone, besides yourself, pay for your school, and you're bitching about what it could do for you in the same breathe that you know you probably wont get anything better than a min. wage job? I'm sorry, but you sound like a fucking idiot.

 

...and yet after years of college I entirely understand the urge to run screaming from those halls.

 

I know how much it feels like you're selling out the very last scraps of your soul by going to classes you're not interested in, but if you've gotten this far than obviously you can finish. I really don't know. Everyone here has valid points, but I have seen a side of life that many other people my age have not, and that is being dependent on others when I'm old and responsible enough to be living as free as Jack Kerouac. As much as I hate to admit it, one of the best things I can have is money, not too much, just enough that I have hefty reserves to live off when I have to RUN. Working part time in menial jobs just doesn't allow me the luxury, not all the time anyway. If I could do some well paying academic work right now that both fed my hungry mind I would be laughing. My friends certainly are. I wish I had stayed at Uni.

Like I said though, everyone is different and maybe you should be free while you can. I'm just offering another viewpoint for you to go by. I also live in a country where university qualifications get you good money in your first year of working, is it like that in Canada?

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU

 

I am an idiot

but i'd rather be a happy idiot please

 

Why even bother responding to low brow douche bags brah?
Uh oh. shit just got real.

 

University is £3,000 a year here, roughly. 3 years to do a degree. Then there's living costs and stuff.. It gets higher. I, however, do not have any useful advice to give to you considering I know nothing of Uni nor have any useful life experiences to say. All I know is I saw what University for me could be like, and it was amazing.

 

you should totally go and find something you like doing.