How many of you are currently full time college students?

How many of you affiliate marketers are fulltime college students?

  • Attend a college fulltime

    Votes: 364 43.4%

  • Didnt go to college

    Votes: 65 7.7%

  • Graduated from college

    Votes: 252 30.0%

  • Went to college then dropped out

    Votes: 158 18.8%
  • Total voters
    839
if you are a marketing or business major, you still have 2+ years, and plan on becoming an entrepreneur, drop ASAP... you are wasting your time!
 


Seo Writer said:
Nothing this! Its something, you know, the funny thing is I actually make XXX.XX now lol as of today!!! Sold a pair of tower racks for wake boarding and earned a XXX.XX commission a week or so ago and got paid today! lol. Anyways, I spend my time building websites and creating content for me. I dont think its a waist of time. I think a waist of time you having written that above comment.

Anyways, thought I'd share the good news. :D
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I'll bite.

Was attending a 4 year school.

Semester 1: 13 credits of general requirement courses
Semester 2: 16 credits of general requirement courses
Semester 3: 12 credits of general requirement courses.

What was I accomplishing there again? After a long series of drama they forced me to take a 'semester off.' I'm rocking out enjoying full time self employment. I'm not a 4 figure a day affiliate, but I'm certainly getting by quite comfortably as a service provider. Looking at my scheduled meetings for the coming week, things are going to get SIGNIFICANTLY better than they already are in the very near future.

I'm taking on a lot more clients, brining in some awesome staff help and will be getting an office in a pretty sweet part of Manhattan very soon.

Now, I'm not posting any of this to brag (by any means) but here's my situation. I'm 'scheduled' to go back to school in fall. If I'm waking up, working my own hours, doing what I love day in and day out, earning enough to get by COMFORTABLY, is it worth returning?
 
Blastyourass said:
I know more college grads who are a complete idiots then I met in prison.

This is fact.

When I say idiot, I really mean ignorant to how the world truly works and how to get along in any type of economic situation. My observation is that it appears very educated people are the most closed minded and easily controlled people in the world. They buy whatever is written in a text book or a professor tells them as the gospel. The more educated the get, the less creative they become.

They buy into whatever the system sells them. They love labels like Democrat and Reuplican, Left and Right. They regularly engage in the consumption of whatever the crowd is consuming or should I say the "SHEEP."

College is for people who buy everything in life that is sold to them. Things like "you need a college education for a good job", "college is the only way to make a good living", and blah, blah, blah...... I know more unemployed college grads then I know employed high school drop outs.

They need someone to teach them what to do and can't learn it on their own. Everything taught in paid brick schools is mostly now obsolete. If you don't believe that, maybe your a$$ should take a visit to the unemployment offices of America right now and interview the millions of out of work and dumb college grads who can't even get a job at McDonald's because they are too smart.

I am not writing this to cut down college clones here on WF, I am just trying to save a poor kids creative brain from being eaten up and spit out into the world of unemployed college grads.

That is my humble, uncollege-educated, self-employed, living life good in Southern California as an ex-convict opinion.
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I hear you, but what pisses me off more is people who tell youngsters that a college education is for losers who don't want a job when they grow up when this couldn't be FURTHER from the truth.

I understand that you are not college educated and you consider yourself successful but 99% of the people you preach to are not going to have the same fortune if they follow your "words of wisdom". They're going to grow up in their moms basement going from part-time job to part-time job until they somehow find a way to make money online. What if they hate it? What if their dream life is to be a marine biologist but they're stuck at their laptop adding backlinks to their niche website from dusk to dawn.

I am personally getting my Computer Science degree from UIUC soon. A vast majority of graduates like me get 2-3 job offers before they graduate from my university and the starting salary is going to average 73K. You're going to tell me I'd be better off if I didn't get my degree and still would be working at McDonalads?
 
Economics Major finished 2 years ago. Got accepted to an MBA for October.... I love school and studying. I want to make enough money to do my MBA and then move to a PhD. I'm currently not far away from my target.......
having a degree is a very important safety net.... things are changing and the trends might change for one day to the next..... If facebook decides to suddenly change their advertising policies.... I cannot imagine how many people will be living in the streets.....
 
elchango said:
Economics Major finished 2 years ago. Got accepted to an MBA for October.... I love school and studying. I want to make enough money to do my MBA and then move to a PhD. I'm currently not far away from my target.......
having a degree is a very important safety net.... things are changing and the trends might change for one day to the next..... If facebook decides to suddenly change their advertising policies.... I cannot imagine how many people will be living in the streets.....
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that's deep man
 
Dropped out. Personally I think pursuing a career is much bigger of a risk over being an enterpruener. It's really disheartening to know that you are judged by people with a variable intelligence if you pursue a professional career
 
megatabbers said:
To the people who replied, "Went to college then dropped out", why is that? The reason I'm asking is because college can be such a great experience (social-wise) especially if you have the money to enjoy yourself (and even if you never plan on using what you studied).

I'd give my right nut to have that social scene again. Online marketing/Work from home is the best type of work IMO but it does have a huge drawback - the social factor.
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Yes ok Dad.
 
I'm a full time student...taking 5 classes i think, It's not really my favorite thing to do, but college life is fun and my parents want me to go, plus its could be a good backup. i haven't been doing much AM recently though...I need to get back into it.
 
AM is legal...and pays consistently if you know how to do it...it pays no less consistent than working for a private company...government jobs are about the only thing you can "guarantee" to pay every time.
 
Not everyone will be a rockstar. And if you're too much of a jackoff to balance a handful of classes against your extracurricular pursuits, it's probably safe to say it won't be you. Besides, college is a fucking blast.

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elchango said:
Economics Major finished 2 years ago. Got accepted to an MBA for October.... I love school and studying. I want to make enough money to do my MBA and then move to a PhD. I'm currently not far away from my target.......
having a degree is a very important safety net.... things are changing and the trends might change for one day to the next..... If facebook decides to suddenly change their advertising policies.... I cannot imagine how many people will be living in the streets.....
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this
 
My degree did me well, put me in a position where I was told I was already making too much money for my age and I was overqualified, but due to my age I was unable to get a raise so I quit.

My bachelors treated me well, lemme tell ya.
 
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