This is one of the biggest questions people have now-a-days. Is the sacrifice of 2 or 4 years and thousands and thousands of dollars really worth it in the long run? Will getting a $100k education make getting a job easier and help me get the job I want? Well I'm here to shed light on the truth. I will try to compare my education with the job I have plus also give insight to the things that I use in my job which I acquired in college.
First of, one way school did help me was my first "job". When I was playing pro ball, I was able to put to use the things I was taught in "college" or more so the baseball field. Many of the things I learned while playing ball at Southern helped me tremendously when with Atlanta and Florida. So that is a plus I guess for a college education if you consider a sport a type of classroom which I do.
Today I am a steel estimator. What I do at my job everyday has nothing to do with anything I was taught at BSC. I deal with math all day, writing proposals, and deal with a number of other aspects as well. In saying that, I took one semester of writing at BSC of which I got a C so technically I'm not technically qualified to write proposals. I took one semester of basic math to which the athletic director's daughter did most of my work to help me pass, so I'm not a wiz a math. I dropped out of business and accounting for these two facts and went after the easiest degree there was at Southern besides theatre for dorks and dance for the gays, I majored in art. There was not math needed or writing skills involved. Simply draw or sculpt something, anything, that was visible and you were a genious. Business class people had to dress nice for presentations and dance people had to wear leo-tards around campus, and so on and so on. Art people didn't give a rip about what they wore to class. Dudes would come in wearing a wife-beater they wore for the past 2 days, ripped up shorts that were actually boxers and two different shoes. Girls would come in no bra and their ta-tas all hanging out, their hair all nasty with dead ends, and nasty legs that hadn't been shaved in weeks. Though we didn't hang out on the weekends, they were my people just for the fact that no matter how little effort I put into a project, they would say it was "magnificent", "just orgasmic", "very fluid and has great composition". So really the bar was set so low in all the art classes that a blind guy with no arms or legs could roll around in some paint then onto a big sheet of paper and be called the next DaVinci.
So back to my point. College did nothing and taught me nothing as far as job goes. I use absolutely nothing I was taught in college. NOTHING.
What I did learn in college that helps me in everyday life is being able to have fun and look at the funny things in life. The weird people who walk around, who go out of their way to look different and are here, I believe, to make me laugh. I learned how to pull some great pranks like washing powder in the fountain, tarp sliding at 2 in the morning, drawing naked people in art class, water balloon fights in the dorm, launching water balloons across campus at people, and unscrewing the top to the bar-b-q sauce for someone to dump it all over their food realizing the media guy is the one that grabbed it and dumped it all over the place causing me to have to run for it. Yes all these things I learned have nothing to do with a job but everything to do with having fun and having a laugh. College has more to do with creating friendships, teammates, and learning about life than it does teaching you about a your job unless you are a doctor or lawyer to which it probably does in come in a little useful. Other than those two occupations most every job in the world can be taught to someone in a matter of months by on-the-job training. So if you are thinking about Yale, Harvard, or Miles college just save your money. Take an online course or get your GED, its all the same.
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