I graduated college and got my Bachelors a little over a year ago. I spent 5 years and $23 thousand acquiring something that is in no way useful or valuable to me. To emphasize how little my college degree has done for me, I'll tell you what I am currently doing with my life. I'm in the military. And not as an officer, but as an enlisted member of the US army, a job I could have just as easily gotten with a GED. I genuinely believe, with all my heart, that going to college was the biggest mistake I've ever made. It ended up being the 5 most useless, pointless, and boring years of my life. Let me start from the beginning:
I went to college right after I graduated high school. And I chose to go to college for a few reasons: 1. Uncertainty. Like many recent HS grads, I really didn't know what the fukk I wanted to do with myself. 2. Cowardice: By going to college, I could put off entering the "real world" for another 4 years and play student instead. And 3. I felt it was something I was "supposed" to do.
So now I'm choosing my major. I've heard countless horror stories of people who majored in art, philosophy, or some other liberal art and ended up working at Starbucks, or living with their mothers into their late 20s. So I choose a 'STEM' major- Industrial Technology. It seemed easier than engineering while at the same time still being "legit" ("Industrial Technology" sounds legit, does it not?) that would enable me to find a decent-paying work after I graduated.
For the first 2-3 years, I'm taking classes that have no relevance at all to my degree. I'm majoring in Industrial Tech, yet I'm learning about fukking Greek gods and ocean biology and medieval Chinese poetry and marketing techniques. And when you think about it, education is the only business that gets away with doing this- making people pay for shyt they don't need and is completely irrelevant to the reason they're there. Let me ask you, what would you do if you went to a store to get a bag of Lays potato chips, and as you're walking up to the register, the cashier says "whoa, hold on. If you want those bag of chips, you also have to buy this bottle of Pine Sol." You'd never put up with that nonsense. You'd be like "that's fukking stupid. No thanks, I'll just go somewhere else." So why does the education industry get away with doing basically the same thing?
Maybe about 60%-70% of the classes I took in college were utterly irrelevant to my degree, and the ones that were at least vaguely relevant to my degree, I'm barely learning jack shyt in. I'm learning very few hard, practical, hands on skills that would make me at all valuable in the job market. Just bullshyt make-work assignment after bullshyt make-work assignment.
So I'm about halfway through college, and I become utterly disillusioned. I flunked like 3 classes during my time in college, because I just didn't care. I was so stressed out all the time, because of the drudgery, and because I felt like everything I was doing was a colossal waste of time and effort. And though I could have very easily not graduated, somehow I make it.
As I'm nearing my graduation date and I'm about to get my degree, I quickly realize three things: 1. I don't know shyt. 2. No one gives a shyt. 3. I have no "work experience." And that's the thing, all these entry level jobs that pay like $10-$12 an hour require vast amounts of experience. I don't have any of this experience, and how could I? After 5 years in college, I have few to no practical, hands on skills. And with every middle class shclub going to college these days, a degree doesn't mean anywhere near as much as it once did.
I really believe the time I spent in college would have been better spent doing.... literally anything else. In my entire time in college, I didn't have a single worthwhile experience, meet a single worthwhile person, or LEARN a single worthwhile goddamn thing. If I could go back in time to do things differently, with the knowledge I have now, I would have gone about my life in an entirely different way.
There seems to be a "conspiracy"in not only this society, but in all present day "westernized" societies, to keep young people infantalized and dependent for as long as possible. The schooling system does not equip people with the skills they might actually use in their day-to-day lives, but instead prevents them from growing up and making their own living for as long as possible. For that reason, if I could go back in time, I doubt I would have even finished high school. I would have dropped out of high school as early as I possible could. I would have went into some tradesman skill (electricianing, carpentry, welding, industrial maintenance, heavy equipment repairer, etc etc). I would have been working and earning, at the very latest, by the time I was 19.
Would I recommend anyone going to college? College left such a bad taste in my mouth that no, I wouldn't But if you DO go to college make sure it's for the right reason. Dont go because you feel you "have to" or because you don't know what else to do, or to extend your adolescence for another 4 years. Go because it's necessary to accomplish YOUR goals. If your goals don't require you to have a college degree, you don't need to be there. And if you don't KNOW what your goals are, you also don't need to be there. College is NOT the place try and figure out what you want to do. If I had a younger brother who just graduated HS and didn't know what he wanted to do, I'd much rather him join the military than go to college. I'm in the military, and while I have absolutely no love for it, I'll admit that if you use it correctly, it's a good tool for getting set in life. Hell, I'd rather him sit at home eating Cheetos and jerking off to Latina milf porn than go to college. At least then he's not going into tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt.
TLDR: I have a motherfukking bachelors degree, and I'm working at a job I don't fukking like, that I can't quit for another 5 years, and that anyone with a GED could have gotten. If I had my college diploma with me right now I'd probably cut it into strips and pound it in the toilet.
I went to college right after I graduated high school. And I chose to go to college for a few reasons: 1. Uncertainty. Like many recent HS grads, I really didn't know what the fukk I wanted to do with myself. 2. Cowardice: By going to college, I could put off entering the "real world" for another 4 years and play student instead. And 3. I felt it was something I was "supposed" to do.
So now I'm choosing my major. I've heard countless horror stories of people who majored in art, philosophy, or some other liberal art and ended up working at Starbucks, or living with their mothers into their late 20s. So I choose a 'STEM' major- Industrial Technology. It seemed easier than engineering while at the same time still being "legit" ("Industrial Technology" sounds legit, does it not?) that would enable me to find a decent-paying work after I graduated.
For the first 2-3 years, I'm taking classes that have no relevance at all to my degree. I'm majoring in Industrial Tech, yet I'm learning about fukking Greek gods and ocean biology and medieval Chinese poetry and marketing techniques. And when you think about it, education is the only business that gets away with doing this- making people pay for shyt they don't need and is completely irrelevant to the reason they're there. Let me ask you, what would you do if you went to a store to get a bag of Lays potato chips, and as you're walking up to the register, the cashier says "whoa, hold on. If you want those bag of chips, you also have to buy this bottle of Pine Sol." You'd never put up with that nonsense. You'd be like "that's fukking stupid. No thanks, I'll just go somewhere else." So why does the education industry get away with doing basically the same thing?
Maybe about 60%-70% of the classes I took in college were utterly irrelevant to my degree, and the ones that were at least vaguely relevant to my degree, I'm barely learning jack shyt in. I'm learning very few hard, practical, hands on skills that would make me at all valuable in the job market. Just bullshyt make-work assignment after bullshyt make-work assignment.
So I'm about halfway through college, and I become utterly disillusioned. I flunked like 3 classes during my time in college, because I just didn't care. I was so stressed out all the time, because of the drudgery, and because I felt like everything I was doing was a colossal waste of time and effort. And though I could have very easily not graduated, somehow I make it.
As I'm nearing my graduation date and I'm about to get my degree, I quickly realize three things: 1. I don't know shyt. 2. No one gives a shyt. 3. I have no "work experience." And that's the thing, all these entry level jobs that pay like $10-$12 an hour require vast amounts of experience. I don't have any of this experience, and how could I? After 5 years in college, I have few to no practical, hands on skills. And with every middle class shclub going to college these days, a degree doesn't mean anywhere near as much as it once did.
I really believe the time I spent in college would have been better spent doing.... literally anything else. In my entire time in college, I didn't have a single worthwhile experience, meet a single worthwhile person, or LEARN a single worthwhile goddamn thing. If I could go back in time to do things differently, with the knowledge I have now, I would have gone about my life in an entirely different way.
There seems to be a "conspiracy"in not only this society, but in all present day "westernized" societies, to keep young people infantalized and dependent for as long as possible. The schooling system does not equip people with the skills they might actually use in their day-to-day lives, but instead prevents them from growing up and making their own living for as long as possible. For that reason, if I could go back in time, I doubt I would have even finished high school. I would have dropped out of high school as early as I possible could. I would have went into some tradesman skill (electricianing, carpentry, welding, industrial maintenance, heavy equipment repairer, etc etc). I would have been working and earning, at the very latest, by the time I was 19.
Would I recommend anyone going to college? College left such a bad taste in my mouth that no, I wouldn't But if you DO go to college make sure it's for the right reason. Dont go because you feel you "have to" or because you don't know what else to do, or to extend your adolescence for another 4 years. Go because it's necessary to accomplish YOUR goals. If your goals don't require you to have a college degree, you don't need to be there. And if you don't KNOW what your goals are, you also don't need to be there. College is NOT the place try and figure out what you want to do. If I had a younger brother who just graduated HS and didn't know what he wanted to do, I'd much rather him join the military than go to college. I'm in the military, and while I have absolutely no love for it, I'll admit that if you use it correctly, it's a good tool for getting set in life. Hell, I'd rather him sit at home eating Cheetos and jerking off to Latina milf porn than go to college. At least then he's not going into tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt.
TLDR: I have a motherfukking bachelors degree, and I'm working at a job I don't fukking like, that I can't quit for another 5 years, and that anyone with a GED could have gotten. If I had my college diploma with me right now I'd probably cut it into strips and pound it in the toilet.
