OohPooPahDoo
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I didn't suggest you were forced. I was just asking whether you thought it was worth it.Yes I know that but I took the job that was available in the marketplace at the time I graduated. It wasn't what I went to school for but it at least it was something.....better than leeching off my parents or crying @ some CEOs about how much they make.
I eventually got into the corporate side of management there after I worked my way up to store manager. You have to start somewhere and the vast majority of the time EVERYONE has to start at the bottom and prove themselves.
I made the decision to go to college and take loans and its not someone else's fault that when I graduated I had debt and couldn't find a $20/hr+ job....so my advice to OWS is buck up and earn the compensation you want and stop blaming others for your own decisions.
So ... why did you go to college on money you didn't have exactly? To get a 10.25 /hr job at walgreens? Getting back to my question - you don't think you'd have just been 4 years ahead of everyone else at Walgreens had you skipped college and gone straight into Walgreens?
I mean really - was it a good investment? People go to college to get ahead, not to start at the bottom. If you're going to start at the bottom, may as well NOT GO TO COLLEGE - right?
Or was the thousands you borrowed and the 4 years you spent NOT advancing your career at Walgreens worth learning all that stuff in college just for knowing its sake?
Did your parents or teachers encourage you to go to college? What was the line they used, did it sound something like "you need to go to college so you can get a job just as good as the one you can get without going to college!"
All investments, including furthering your education, contain risks that the investment wont pay out as much as you want it to.
I went because I wanted to go.
My plan was, and still is, to own my own business one day which is why I went for business.
And you learned more about business in college than you have working your way up Walgreen's corporate ladder? Come on man! Does the state you live in require you have a college degree to have a business license?
I'm still glad I went to college because I learned a lot of good information and a lot about myself as a person.
You took out loans to learn about yourself as a person? Seriously?
You sure you cut out to be a businessman?
15 years after graduating I've almost saved up enough money by living well below my means to be able to start up a business for myself.
IF YOU'D SKIPPED COLLEGE YOU'D ALREADY BE THERE, WOULDN'T YOU?
To adress your point, you are right if I went right into the workforce out of college I would be 4 years ahead of where I am now....but then again maybe the time management skills, personal enlightenment, and general knowledge I gained in college have allowed me to get further ahead than I would have at this point if I didn't go.
Personal enlightenment and general knowledge anyone can get at the library - or these days - online.
Time management skills are things that people learn without going to college. Maybe at 18 you'd have had horrible time management skills and been fired from your first job at Walgreens 3 months in for habitual tardiness. You learn you lesson the hard way, Rite Aid picks you up, and there you go. I guarantee that being in the workforce can teach you "time management skills" a lot quicker than 4 years of college!