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posted November 30th, 2015 at 12:37 AM

I barely got out of high school. I knew right away I wasn't going to college (much to the dismay of everyone I knew). I worked random entry level jobs. I moved around. I experienced poverty, I experienced choicelesness, I experienced many many things I didn't like. I moved across the country on a whim with a backpack. I bummed around. For a long time I felt like I never been much more than just a bum Last night I got off work and realised I have a promising career. 5 years have slipped by and I've somehow emerged from a chrysalis as an adult of sorts. I still haven't been to school. My point is that sometimes life needs to happe. To you and its hard to figure out how to catalyse this; school is expensive and pointless, stagnation is easy if you sleep too long in your youth. Anyway good luck. There are more roads than one.

3 Comments

a little misguided.

Nov 30, 2015 at 12:24pm

school is pointless???
As you mentioned, there are more roads than one. Don't belittle those who chose differently than you.

So close

Nov 30, 2015 at 2:11pm

Yeah, you were so close to making an excellent point, and then *boom*, that snipe about school being expensive and pointless. I gather you feel judged for not going to school, which sucks if true, but like you said, there are more roads than one.

I did go to school

Dec 1, 2015 at 7:50pm

Op, you dont get to make a statement on a subject you know nothing of. You wouldn't know if the school is pointless because you didn't go to one.

But I will back you up, despite your "talking out of you ass"Ness. I did go to one. It was brutal and expensive. I got a piece of paper to prove my education and commitment. I think of it as the an expensive receipt. But I did find myself and got great friends out of the experience. You hadon't your way to experience, I did mine.

You don't like people judging you for not going to one, so don't judge the people who did go.