Comments on: 3 Important Lessons I had Learned From A Conversation

By: bkaasa

bkaasa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:21:02 +0000

Hi Vincent. Thought my experience might could help you. I quit college to run my own business. I failed, yes, but I have never regret. Every day with my own business I felt I learned more than a year at school. After the business failed I took a job, and I’m still at it. Leaders and coworkers try encourage med to finish my missing subject from college, but no thanks. I wont. I am instead looking for opportunities to start my own again. Beside: School never teach how to make money work for you – school only teaches how you can be a better employee.
I feel finished with school. School is slow learning and expensive too.

I suggest you ask someone who have done before you what you want to do for advice.

Oh..: And I actually regret spending years at school. It costs a lot more than you spend those years. Depending on where in the world you live, though.
-While you study.., house/apartment prices rice, you miss several salary raises and important job experience, you might not build retirement fund while at school and you miss years with income.

One more thing. If you do well at college, and expect good grades, I suggest you finish college. You are free to follow your heart after graduation.

I wish you good luck in what ever you choose.

By: Long

Long — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:36:15 +0000

I think you can look at the situation from 2 perspectives: emotional vs. rational. The emotional view tells you to nuture your dream, go aganist the convention, make your life decisions for yourself. The rational view questions the fact how many people, on average, succeed without a university degree or some form of certification or the basic shortcomings of dropping and its impact on your future career.

Consider both and find the right balance for you and your situation because like you said, you decide, you’re responsible.

Also, I’d like to debate the difference between being realistic and being practical. The biggest difference is with a practical mindset, you assume something can work and test it out. Doesn’t matter whenther it’s proven or not –you test it out and not be refrained by conventional standards or people who say it can’t be done. Being ‘realistic’ is accepting things the way they are –without questioning it and testing your assumption.

By: Laptop Briefcases

Laptop Briefcases — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:31:00 +0000

While many successful people dropped out of school, there are countless more who dropped out and regretted it. As others have mentioned, college teaches you a lot more than what is in the textbooks. You learn life lessons that make you mature enough to embark on a career.

If you really want a career in the financial industry, a degree is going to make it much easier to achieve that goal. Of course there are multiple paths to reach that goal. So if you really feel college is not benefiting you, explore your other options to see what else you can do. While you will likely succeed at anything you do with your positive attitude, ensure that you carefully calculate risks you take.

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By: Net Age Web Design

Net Age Web Design — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:48:12 +0000

You know, here in South Africa we also had conscription until the early 1990’s and the guys tried everything from getting married to pretending to be terminally ill in order to avoid it, but the only ones who got off were the guys who were self-employed to the dgree that their businesses couldn’t run if they were not there. You should be able to easily fall into that category, I just don’t know how your beaurocracy works in your part of the world.

By: Net Age Web Design

Net Age Web Design — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:40:32 +0000

Hiya Vincent! I am sure you’ll make the right decision regarding your future. Two years in the army is a long time, nearly as much as it takes to get your basic degree/diploma. Will you stil be liable for conscription if you are totally self-employed? Surely this will be good grounds for exemption?

By: Celestine Chua

Celestine Chua — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:57:38 +0000

Vincent, I love how you took away such powerful messages from the conversation despite the other party sending such disempowering messages. As you said, your friend had disempowered himself and it’s great that you decided not to. The most important thing which you probably know already is no matter what decision you make, you are going to create the success you desire. What’s before you are just different paths to the same end vision.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:30:09 +0000

Vincent, college is important. Stick with it – you are much more marketable with a degree than without.

By: helen

helen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:21:48 +0000

Hi,wonder if you still remember me . In my way of thinking,if you have already known the detailed methods to build up your own business or with abosulte confidence to be recruited by the enterprises you are interested in ,even though without degree it is Okay .I am a chinese so I know how the Asian works rather than the Eorupeans’. generally,they are millions of graduates after jobs.Educated or not educated.master degrees or graduating from senior school,with specfic skills or not.These stuffs to me all sound like the possibility to get the job I want while beating off others. These days we haven’t even weighted up a wiity person by whether or not he is college graducate.Many CEOs without MBA in the states,and yes,many businessmen have never entered to college.These all the ture facts and more are being listed.besides,a good excuse to follow a routine life is that it provides the least opportunity to lose as we have the basic foundation-bachelor degree.you have watched The persuit of Happyness,so you know in the moive ,Will Smith aslo works hard ending up being great at the exam as an entrance of his career.

By: Credit Girl

Credit Girl — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:40:21 +0000

School isn’t for everyone. Others do better just learning on their own like what you are doing and gain an abundance of experience and wealth of knowledge. Some of the richest people in the world didn’t even finish college so good luck and I hope you make the best decision for yourself! =)