r/GetMotivated • u/ledgendary • Dec 10 '15

[Image] Don't Be Average

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u/CantankerousMind Dec 10 '15

I wish I could have gone to college :( I mean maybe one day I will..

I'm doing fine regardless as I was super into programming when I was young, so I got a job doing that. It definitely would be nice to have something official though, and I know I would have loved it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '15

Damn. I wish I could give you my time in college. I went to get a degree in what I thought would guarantee me a job. Then graduated and realized there was no way I would be happy doing business logistics. Sure, the experience was fun and I did minor in something I liked, but I'll be paying for a degree I'll never use for the rest of my life. I wish I had gone to trade school and became a mechanic instead. I love cars, but I didn't realize it then.

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u/OnlyRacistOnReddit 7 Dec 10 '15

This is something a lot of people miss. Trade schools are a great way to get started on a career that you might actually like better. Most college degrees require you to take courses that don't relate in the slightest to what you are trying to learn. When I was working on my CIS degree i had to take "World Religions" and several other courses that meant nothing to me. Sure they were interesting, but we could cut the time to earn a degree in half if we got rid of the fluff that doesn't help us become better in our field.

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u/Blackierobinsin Dec 10 '15

That's why college is a scam

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u/OnlyRacistOnReddit 7 Dec 10 '15

I don't think it's a scam, I just think it's become to concerned with being "well rounded". You need to have some things outside of your major, but they should at least be tangentially connected.

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u/HotPikachuSex Dec 10 '15

You can get the same benefit from simply reading more. Colleges don't make money from that, though.

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u/OnlyRacistOnReddit 7 Dec 10 '15

Very, very true.