Is college even worth it?



I think I'm looking at the wrong business, I should go back to school and be on the money stealing end of it instead...one thing I always tell my kids is that school rare, if ever, actually teaches you how to make money. Anyone who's graduated has had to find out for themselves what to do with their degree and how to turn it into money.

BOTTOM LINE: If you know how to make money, you don't need a college degree.
 
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bb_wolfe said:
The last problem Wolfe will ever have is debt. I paid for the wife's masters in cash, I'll finish my bachelors with cash, and I'll go to law school paying cash!

@eagle I wouldn't vote for you if my life depended on it, I don't think you'd 'legalize it'!!

I'm going to law school to become a child advocate, not work for some corporate firm. Never the less, if a guy spends 7 years in school and doesn't network to the point he has tons of opportunity coming out, then that's his fucking problem. I've never failed to succeed in the long run and I don't plan on stopping now!
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I decided to go back to school for exactly the same reason: law. Yes, I am aware of the problems with the system and 3rd and 4th tier "law" schools which are essentially diploma mills. The problem doesn't end with a bunch of unemployed lawyers. Fuck them. They went to school for the wrong reasons. They want to work for someone else, and figured law school was their ticket to a six figure income. If that's all the ambition anyone has these days, they won't survive with any degree.

College isn't for everyone. I dropped out my first round. Now that I've gotten some years and maturity under my belt and wasted too much time in corporate employ, I've returned to school for better or worse. Unfortunately, you cannot enter the practice of law without going to school. But, as has been said; that education can never be taken away. It's how you use it that matters.

Like someone's sig here awhile back said: "adapt or get paved the fuck over."
 
Look I know everybody disagrees with me but I have been trying to do IM for 2 years before I went to college.

I am taking a business degree, between the accounting and management portions of the class I have really applied my knowledge to my online business and managed to go from 20$ to 100$ a day pretty easily with only 30 mins to 1 hour of work, and the occasional 20 hour work binges every few months. Now that its summer, I am really ramping things up and should be able to double my income by the end of the summer. I have branched out from PPC / SEO affiliate offers to running my own ecom sites which are a lot more stable.

plus, having a business where I can apply my knowledge has made it pretty easy to maintain a 3.9 gpa. Part of me wishes I tried a little harder and made it a 4.0
 
repsolracer said:
So im sitting here in my comp class bored as fuck.. were going over applications for office.. im about to refresh my stats and head out this bitch in about 10 :thefinger:. But yeah does anyone think college is a joke for a imer? I was majoring in nursing but after i learned how fuckin hard and how low the pay was i dropped outta it and changed it to business (for now). Any input from you guys? what do you think of college for a entrepreneur?
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With places like the Khan Academy (no affiliate link) and other online hubs popping up, college is becoming increasingly useless.

What's the point of creating post high school, cattle prodding institutions subsidized by the government? I don't get it.

In English: yea, college is a waste of time.
 
@lemon: Congratulations. You're the first person to leave a respectable answer with first-hand experience on this thread. You haven't convinced me to go back to school, but I think slightly more of a biz degree now. (Before I just thought of it as rough toilet paper.)

Now, Why in the Hell did you resurrect this ancient thread to talk about it?!?
 
BeerNuts said:
Business degrees are the new cop-out degree. Don't know what to do with your life? Parents don't want you to be an idiot? Just pick a random degree! Business sounds great. I also love how your major is now "business" where are you ITT tech? What kind of generalized bullcrap is that.
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What's wrong with answering "business" if you're freshman/sophomore that's undecided of exact specialization?
 
It's worth it. You ask the question around here though and you get a ton of guys who aren't even old enough to graduate college and have no idea how life works telling you otherwise. Anyway just be careful who you take advice from that's my advice.
 
King. said:
politics? as in getting elected? how do you intend to do that with all the money hoes cars clothes image you've made for yourself? lol
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My current country president was in jail/arrested for rape and robbery (and it was not stoped him for being one), so Ryan is like Kennedy or something comparing to him;)
 
kingfish said:
It's worth it. You ask the question around here though and you get a ton of guys who aren't even old enough to graduate college and have no idea how life works telling you otherwise. Anyway just be careful who you take advice from that's my advice.
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QTF. This goes for anywhere you ask this question though. I'm in school for History and Public Relations and I can tell you it's opened more doors than if I was to just claim I was a historian and attempt to publish.
 
tacoX said:
@bb_wolfe
Put it plain and simple: I hire people with college educations. I will never* need to go to college because I've established my business and reached massive success doing it. Infact, I went to college with a double major of business / pre-med (hoping one day that I would eventually own medical firm of some time).

At this time, I started focusing on developing niche websites related to the medical field (as the CPC's were / are huge). One night I developed a serious of sites on salaries of doctors, highest paid, so on and so forth - then I realized I made more than that median range every single month (during college). I made a planned move to drop out of college and focus on my business, knowing that I could return any time I wanted to.

Good luck being a lawyer though! Did you know that they're making more law schools, accepting more students, meaning even more saturation of the market? Even after completing your what - 8 year college - you're now competing with far more people than ever before. It seems to me that being a lawyer now has even turned into a cash-cow business for colleges. Oh yea, that paired with the fact that a vast majority of lawyer jobs are getting outsourced leaves me to believe that once you complete college - you'll not only be competing with far more new lawyers, you'll be competing with Indians as well. Lifes a bitch.

I'm not trying to crush your dream my any means, infact - I plan on returning to college in my 30's to pickup a law degree myself (but not to become a lawyer, I'd like to eventually get into politics or something). I do not look down on people that complete college or go to college at all, most people realize that financially it's meaningless - but I can only imaging the sense of fulfillment one gets by completing their degree.
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Financially, it's meaningless to those that know how to make money on their own. What about the doctors and engineers? Who the fuck would make a living being a doctor/engineer with no degree? No one.

Either you're an entrepreneur and will figure out ways to get by financially regardless of a college education, or you get a job like most people.


For some it's worth it, for some it's not.
 
Compare AM to online poker. What happens if regulations cause AM to drastically change where you are unable to adapt? Do you count on one campaign for all of your income? So many people are hating on college, but in reality, it has become the status quo. Saying college is stupid/pointless is just that. Do McKinsey/Goldman/P&G typically consider hiring non-degreed candidates for entry level positions? There are a lot of idiots out there with degrees, it doesn't mean that they are more intelligent, it means they paid their dues to gain access to certain opportunities.

Because in the end, how high are the barriers to entry in affiliate marketing? Look at how easy money was to make in Facebook's infancy versus now. If there are profits to be reaped, then more people will continue to enter the industry. There will always be someone willing to accept lower margins, until that margin is 0. You can continuously adapt, but you can never be for certain.

That is why it helps to have a college degree. Just in case you have to go into the 'real world.'
 
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