I'm ninefuckingteen

[Vampiro69]

Seriously go to college and get yourself a degree. In the long run you will have more job oppurtunities available for you. It beats being the fry chef at McDonalds when you are 35.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Sell dope. You'll make a lot more, and it's not really "work."

 

Tax free, too.

Not very good job security though

 

You're nuts, shit sells itself.

[Slayer]

Well, yeah, but there's the matter of dealing with cops on one side, and rival drug dealers on the other side.

[Black Lushus]

Well, yeah, but there's the matter of dealing with cops on one side, and rival drug dealers on the other side.

 

hey at least it's never boring!

[Hawkius Maximus]

I'm twenty. Only difference between us is I've got two years of Community college under my belt so far. I got my GED in 2004, then entered classes that Fall. Thanks to my shitty family income, I get financial aide that helps me go, and gives me a bit of extra cash for "essentials", heh...

 

I don't have a job. I've never had a what you would call "real job". I've worked quite often in my life, but never an official job. Where I live, it's basicly the dead-end of the world. People are either born here and stuck for the rest of their lives, or they come here because they have no where else to go due to drugs, alcohol, or other shit including criminal backgrounds. There are no real job opportunities inless I'm willing to work at fucking Mcdonalds which I'm not willing to. I'm too picky for whatever reason. I also have a knee injury that keeps me from working heavy-duty jobs that I could easily do with my strength. Outisde of those, there are office jobs that I could easily do but aren't qualified for, and canneries, which I absolutely do not want to do.

 

My mom's never really pressured me into things, beyond College. She basicly told me I had to either get a job, or do college when I got my GED. I chose College.

 

I often feel like a freeloader, or worthless since I don't have a job, but there's not mcuh I can do. It's either do stuff that I honestly would hate to do and would make me absolutely miserable, or I can't work due to my knee and lack of options. I've thought about tutoring for English students, since I'm a fairly good writer and can help people understand what they have to do to get good grades. In all my english classes, I helped everyone else to the point where they got better grades then I did. Atleast I have the college to say I'm achieving something I suppose.

 

But yeah...If you're gonna do College, try to figure out what you wanna aim for, or else you'll be in a shit situation like me with no direction or idea of where you're going. Fun times.

[FroGG_NeaL]

I just turned 23 June 22 this year.

 

In the past few years, I got my head busted open while I was tripping acid, thi scaused permanent double vision.

 

after 2 years, a doctoer cut the front of my eye off, rewired it, and sewed it back.

 

I damn near broke my back.

 

I got my front tooth knocked out getting jumped by 5 bouncers.

My brother came back from Iqaq finally, and blew his brains out 4 months later while our whole cre was in the room.

 

two months later, new years eve, my other brother who went to irag overdosed and dies.

 

I get really bad on pills, resulting in me passing out and severing the main artey in my left arm, and being pronounced dead on the way to the hospital.

 

Then one of my best friends who's like a brother to me, blew his brains out.

 

Then my other brother went to jail for shit he didn't do.

 

Then I got my head busted open again, this time by a liquor bottle.

 

All of this has happened since I was about 19 til now.

 

And that's not even mentioning the babies and women involved.

 

I think you guys can handle living with your folks for a few years, gettin' bitched at. Just get a job, enroll in some sort of school.

[Vampiro69]

Damn

[The Niggardly King]

I took the assessment test last night. Then afterwards talked to a few of the girls there.

 

I'm looking forward to college.

[Guest Princess Leena]

One thing is for sure. You'll never be as successful as Popick. Nobody will.

[The Niggardly King]

Yeah, I'm not even trying to be on that level.

[Art Sandusky]

[MarvinisaLunatic]

Going to college for the sole purpose to avoid going to work is insanely stupid.

 

I Feel bad for him when he's out of college (degree or no degree) and that first student loan payment comes due and he still doesn't have a job (which sort of happened to me although I lucked out and was able to score an extension but it cost me long term).

 

Of course, I can say that me going to college has been worth nothing towards what Im doing right now although I wouldn't have got my present job without my degree. BUT Im certainly not making boatloads of money that a college degree supposedly magically entitles you to.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Going to college just to avoid work isn't that stupid. Because if you're working out of high school... either the job will be very tough, but gives you a future... or you work at Dollar Tree until you die.

[MarvinisaLunatic]

Going to college just to avoid work isn't that stupid. Because if you're working out of high school... either the job will be very tough, but gives you a future... or you work at Dollar Tree until you die.

 

I Would rather work at Dollar Tree for a couple years than to waste a year (less or more) in college, dropout and be stuck with a large sum of student loans due with nothing to show for it. Not to mention the "college dropout tag" which to me would be worse than not going to college at all since it shows that you can't handle tougher responsibilities. And deciding to go to college late in the summer just reeks of "inevitable dropout" to me but whatever.

 

All I know is I had planned to go to JWU back in my Junior year although I was unsure how I was going to pay for such an expensive school (20k a year give or take) but I lucked out and won a big scholarship the summer prior to my senior year which covered about half of everything for 4 years (although bonehead me only went 2 years).

[Guest StylesMark]

work at Dollar Tree until you die.

 

Ethan...I'm lookin' at you.

[The Niggardly King]

Actually, I had no choice in the matter of college or work. Truth be told, I was going to work with my friends this year, in construction... and go to school around this time last year... but my mom said that if I would do that, I'd be kicked out within one month. My dad said that this would not happen... but I do not trust my dad, because he's the most pussy whipped man I've seen in my life.

[Guest Princess Leena]

You have good parents.

[Guest StylesMark]

Yeah, sounds like it. They just want you to make something of yourself.

 

Do what must be done...

[Hawkius Maximus]

In my case, since I chose College over Work, I have a couple things for me, or against me:

 

#1: The only jobs available here are either working in Canaries, which everyone in my family at some point has done. I refuse to do it. That or McDonalds.

 

#2: My family is poor enough that I'm getting financial aid right now, which funds all my costs for college. They give me a thousand bucks + for extra expenses such as books, but all college tuition fees are covered 100%.

 

#3: My knee is fucked beyond belief, so even if we had a good jobs here, I wouldn't be able to work most of them, and the jobs I can easily do I'm either not quaified for (Due to lack of college experiences, or work experience) or aren't available here. Granted, when I originally made the College over Work choice, I didn't have a busted knee, but I got it the summer after my first year, aka a year ago.

 

In the long run, if I want to do anything with my life, I have to get out of this town. In about a year or so, I'll be done with my credits needed for the transfer to a university, and my financial aide will run out. So I'll either have to take Washington Online courses only, or move to say...Seattle.