Not Going to College: Big Regret or Best Decision? - Lexie Limitless
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Date: 2022-03-12
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Chris
my diploma might as well be an expensive piece of toilet paper. I literally have had barely any use for it and has provided hardly any value; not a single job interview has mentioned it and the most I can infer/say is that its importance has been unspoken or only mentioned as an afterthought. I would do it all differently. Enough of my college experience was detrimental to my social and mental wellbeing and career prospects in ways that could follow me the rest of my life and has had lasting impacts and consequences to this point that it warrants reconsideration. That is a not what colleger is claimed to be about and was roughly a $100, 000 mistake that has sent earthquakes through my life and caused enormous strife towards me from my family. Going to college, especially where I did and in part how I did (some of which includes mistakes of the brand that Lexi's advice is meant to head off) has been one of my biggest regrets and if I could go back in time, I would consider, in some combination of the following, going to a college further away or taking a few gap years and working and traveling or not going at all. Not until much later, minimum.
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my diploma might as well be an expensive piece of toilet paper. I literally have had barely any use for it and has provided hardly any value; not a single job interview has mentioned it and the most I can infer/say is that its importance has been unspoken or only mentioned as an afterthought. I would do it all differently. Enough of my college experience was detrimental to my social and mental wellbeing and career prospects in ways that could follow me the rest of my life and has had lasting impacts and consequences to this point that it warrants reconsideration. That is a not what colleger is claimed to be about and was roughly a $100, 000 mistake that has sent earthquakes through my life and caused enormous strife towards me from my family. Going to college, especially where I did and in part how I did (some of which includes mistakes of the brand that Lexi's advice is meant to head off) has been one of my biggest regrets and if I could go back in time, I would consider, in some combination of the following, going to a college further away or taking a few gap years and working and traveling or not going at all. Not until much later, minimum.
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BrookeAProductions
I am currently doing online college through a scholarship. My original intention was to do online in order to get a degree as sort of a side hustle and focus on growing my resume and pursuing my passion. However, college is taking up all of my time and I work so, so hard to prioritize my true passion but I am struggling incredibly hard to do so. I would take less classes, but my scholarship (which is paying for everything) requires a lot of hours! I do not like college at all, I did not want to go, and it is very hard for me, but at this price and living at home with my parents, I feel as though I can't pass up this opportunity to get a degree as a backup plan or addition to my resume. I am not even meeting people or getting any of that fun aspect either, so although I am thankful for the opportunity, I am not happy with what I am doing. My college is only 2 years also, so I would have to transfer to get a degree, and I cannot afford practically any college unless I am on a big scholarship, even then it still has no interest to me and I have no idea where I would go.
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I am currently doing online college through a scholarship. My original intention was to do online in order to get a degree as sort of a side hustle and focus on growing my resume and pursuing my passion. However, college is taking up all of my time and I work so, so hard to prioritize my true passion but I am struggling incredibly hard to do so. I would take less classes, but my scholarship (which is paying for everything) requires a lot of hours! I do not like college at all, I did not want to go, and it is very hard for me, but at this price and living at home with my parents, I feel as though I can't pass up this opportunity to get a degree as a backup plan or addition to my resume. I am not even meeting people or getting any of that fun aspect either, so although I am thankful for the opportunity, I am not happy with what I am doing. My college is only 2 years also, so I would have to transfer to get a degree, and I cannot afford practically any college unless I am on a big scholarship, even then it still has no interest to me and I have no idea where I would go.
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Michael
College is such a debt trap in the US. If you spend 200k on a degree with in state tuition room and board, you might as well buy 1 cookie cutter home in big city or 3 college town home to collect rent. Your average rental income is above 1. 5k per month. Not a whole lot but money makes money and it's super easy to bank hack your way into buying your second home, third home and your rental income would be in the 4k zones. Business and investments are the A game. College is the B game. That's the truth. B game means bank loaned cars and homes. A game means you leverage others to make money. Bend down and get pounded by the system or use the system to bend other people down and violate them is not much of a choice. 200k to pay to work. What type of BS is that?
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College is such a debt trap in the US. If you spend 200k on a degree with in state tuition room and board, you might as well buy 1 cookie cutter home in big city or 3 college town home to collect rent. Your average rental income is above 1. 5k per month. Not a whole lot but money makes money and it's super easy to bank hack your way into buying your second home, third home and your rental income would be in the 4k zones. Business and investments are the A game. College is the B game. That's the truth. B game means bank loaned cars and homes. A game means you leverage others to make money. Bend down and get pounded by the system or use the system to bend other people down and violate them is not much of a choice. 200k to pay to work. What type of BS is that?
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Julie
I love this video. I didn't go to a traditional four year university either. Performance was my passion so I attended an acting conservatory which then led me to study dance, which led me to becoming a dance teacher/fitness instructor. I love what I do, but I also want to do so much more and find a way to combine my passions and travel! We are constantly changing and evolving and I completely agree that deciding what you want to do with your life and committing to spend thousands of dollars on a degree at 18 shouldn't be the only path. I'm so glad I don't have all of that debt now from a degree in acting, which I had been seriously considering before settling on a cheaper, shorter conservatory program.
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I love this video. I didn't go to a traditional four year university either. Performance was my passion so I attended an acting conservatory which then led me to study dance, which led me to becoming a dance teacher/fitness instructor. I love what I do, but I also want to do so much more and find a way to combine my passions and travel! We are constantly changing and evolving and I completely agree that deciding what you want to do with your life and committing to spend thousands of dollars on a degree at 18 shouldn't be the only path. I'm so glad I don't have all of that debt now from a degree in acting, which I had been seriously considering before settling on a cheaper, shorter conservatory program.
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xx22best
My parents didn-t have a degree but they worked so hard in their lives so I can go to college. I did and graduated with a degree in management information system as well as political science. I love my job in consulting working as an automation programmer! Because of my job in Tech I-m able to pay for my traveling and have been to many countries in the world (and counting. College absolutely worked for me and I met most of my best friends there! I don-t think college works for everyone but if you don-t know what you would with your life without a degree I-d say always start with college/community college so at least you can get a stable paying job in the future while figuring out!
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My parents didn-t have a degree but they worked so hard in their lives so I can go to college. I did and graduated with a degree in management information system as well as political science. I love my job in consulting working as an automation programmer! Because of my job in Tech I-m able to pay for my traveling and have been to many countries in the world (and counting. College absolutely worked for me and I met most of my best friends there! I don-t think college works for everyone but if you don-t know what you would with your life without a degree I-d say always start with college/community college so at least you can get a stable paying job in the future while figuring out!
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Marcus
I literally left college (Marketing & Real estate ) in 2015 to go fulltime traveling.
Came back home in 2019 after going around 30+ countries and enrolled back to university last year to study Architecture (at age 26 back then.
Now I'm 27 and loving my education so even if it was a detour it still got me to where I wanted to be. + by traveling you usually get to take the scenic route; )!
I'm very happy with my life experience so far and look forward on the next few years of educating myself in a new way
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I literally left college (Marketing & Real estate ) in 2015 to go fulltime traveling.
Came back home in 2019 after going around 30+ countries and enrolled back to university last year to study Architecture (at age 26 back then.
Now I'm 27 and loving my education so even if it was a detour it still got me to where I wanted to be. + by traveling you usually get to take the scenic route; )!
I'm very happy with my life experience so far and look forward on the next few years of educating myself in a new way
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KingAoBuLei
Con: I spent almost 7 years in college just to find out it weren-t for me, biggest regret of my life.
Pro: My advice to anyone struggling to find out what they want to do, get a Gen Ed degree, I never graduated college because I stigmatized this idea of Gen Ed degrees are a joke, I think if I were to go back in time and gotten that degree I could-ve probably graduated in 5 years. But instead I have no degree, and $60k+ in debt, screw college, really.
Sorry for the ramble, new fan btw
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Con: I spent almost 7 years in college just to find out it weren-t for me, biggest regret of my life.
Pro: My advice to anyone struggling to find out what they want to do, get a Gen Ed degree, I never graduated college because I stigmatized this idea of Gen Ed degrees are a joke, I think if I were to go back in time and gotten that degree I could-ve probably graduated in 5 years. But instead I have no degree, and $60k+ in debt, screw college, really.
Sorry for the ramble, new fan btw
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The
wel collage is fine and all that but its not for everyone, free spirited people are not good at a place full of rules where they have to sit stil and listen to a teacher all day some people just like to learn what they need and move on and others arent the listen and read type they are the type of people that do things.
sending everyone to school is like giving everyone the same food or the same clothes it doesnt work for everyone.
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wel collage is fine and all that but its not for everyone, free spirited people are not good at a place full of rules where they have to sit stil and listen to a teacher all day some people just like to learn what they need and move on and others arent the listen and read type they are the type of people that do things.
sending everyone to school is like giving everyone the same food or the same clothes it doesnt work for everyone.
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Brittany
I wish I knew this in high school. I went to college because I didn-t know I had any other options. I am so deep in debt because of a degree I don-t even want to use. Two years after graduation I am unemployed and depressed. I got a low gpa in college because I was not interested in my classes. Now nobody wants to hire me. I wasted so much time and money and now I feel so trapped. I wish there was a restart button for my life.
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I wish I knew this in high school. I went to college because I didn-t know I had any other options. I am so deep in debt because of a degree I don-t even want to use. Two years after graduation I am unemployed and depressed. I got a low gpa in college because I was not interested in my classes. Now nobody wants to hire me. I wasted so much time and money and now I feel so trapped. I wish there was a restart button for my life.
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kit_kat
I'm Australian and my highschool English teacher told us that we would fail at life and get divorced some day if we don't go to university (seriously. Now I'm living comfortably in another country working as an ESL teacher with only a short online course under my belt. I have no stress, no debt and enough money to save and travel more. Life is good and he was wrong.
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I'm Australian and my highschool English teacher told us that we would fail at life and get divorced some day if we don't go to university (seriously. Now I'm living comfortably in another country working as an ESL teacher with only a short online course under my belt. I have no stress, no debt and enough money to save and travel more. Life is good and he was wrong.
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