Found my new inspiration to stay in school

[DEV0 E30]

Reminds me of my brother-in-law's new Lotus Elise, one of 2000 in the U.S. this year. Amazing quick little green car. He's gonna start AutoXing that baby.

[bmwannabe]

stereotypical cheeto munching internet guru.

[bimmerphile]

Re: Found my new inspiration to stay in school

Education is overrated.

Funny how the educated never make this claim.

[Z3Jonathan]

My friends dad makes about 300 grand a year with no college, similarly my dad makes close to 100g/year with no college. Im really starting to see that common sence overrides degrees/ect. Also, my brothers friends dad makes a shitload of money, probably close to half a mil/year with no college. Both of his kids ride in new 2004 Mach 1 Mustangs (yes they are twins and each have one), and are trading them in when they get the new 2005's in. Oh, and there previous rides were new Lexus rx330's. Thats all possible with no college education.

What does going to college have to do with having or not having common sense? If you supposedly have a lot of common sense, you should thrive in a higher learning environment.

College is NOT about having a professor teach you how to be some profession. It is about learning how to learn. College gives you the skills to teach yourself a subject, and apply that subject to the real world.

Everyone seems to "know" a friend who's parents make big bucks with no college degree. Thats fine, but it certainly doesn't mean you'll be sucessful. People who are sucessful know what they want to do with life, and how to get there. That may or may not invovle some type of college. But you can't be sucessful if you don't have a life plan and work that plan. College makes working that plan a whole lot easier.

[Jordan]

Re: Found my new inspiration to stay in school

Education is overrated.

Funny how the educated never make this claim.

I dont want to be a lawyer or a doctor or any other profession where one is required to get massive higher education. Those fields of work hold no interest to me.

Thus such education is worthless to me.

[JPbmw]

3 pages into this thread and theres still no pics of the porsche?

[rwh11385]

If Jordan desires job satsification and liking what he does, that's what makes him happy. Since Jordan is happy where he is without education, he had no value for it.

Of course, I think people are wiser in general if they aim to what they really want to do, not what makes the most $$$. Having a career you hate because it makes a large incone is silly. It's hard to be happy, IMO.

If I don't like being in a corporation and doing the whole suit thing......I'll move to having my own company, maybe small and maybe not as much $$$.....but I might be happier. Or marry a lawyer.

Money doesn't buy happiness. I live just south of the 6th (?) richest county in the nation, not everyone is happy there. Too many people worry about what they drive, what they wear, and how to make more money instead of enjoying themselves. Geez.

[SA E30]

I've just read this thread. I agree with what everybody has to say. With Jordan, what he wants to do, doesn't require going to university, but it's not saying he won;t make money. Then there r some who, have to go to university to make the money in the job they have chosen, like the guy who works at the bank.

What I'm really trying to say is that, all of the people on this forum can make lots of money if they just put their mind to it.

Oh and the guy that was going on about driving 20yr old E30's... well I love E30's that why I drive one it's gotta be one of my favorite cars, and if I could have an E30 M3 I would, over any other car (they never came to SA) ... If ur chicks wants to be with u cause of what car u drive china, I'm sorry but when u bankrupt she's gonna be leaving ur ass

[royalflush313]

If Jordan desires job satsification and liking what he does, that's what makes him happy. Since Jordan is happy where he is without education, he had no value for it.

Of course, I think people are wiser in general if they aim to what they really want to do, not what makes the most $$$. Having a career you hate because it makes a large incone is silly. It's hard to be happy, IMO.

If I don't like being in a corporation and doing the whole suit thing......I'll move to having my own company, maybe small and maybe not as much $$$.....but I might be happier. Or marry a lawyer.

Money doesn't buy happiness. I live just south of the 6th (?) richest county in the nation, not everyone is happy there. Too many people worry about what they drive, what they wear, and how to make more money instead of enjoying themselves. Geez.

Imagine a world, where everyone strived to become a doctor. Everyone would be doctors. Who would be farmers, who would make cars, who would teach and train the up and coming doctors? And finally, if everyone were doctors, people are likely to have very little jobs, and the income would fall.

My point is, it's quite natural that people strives for different careers, because people have different motivation and talents. And so thanks goes out to those who are happy being a janitor, or McDonald's manager, or whatever else profession that people of higher education often looks down to.

[Rich V]

If Jordan desires job satsification and liking what he does, that's what makes him happy. Since Jordan is happy where he is without education, he had no value for it.

Of course, I think people are wiser in general if they aim to what they really want to do, not what makes the most $$$. Having a career you hate because it makes a large incone is silly. It's hard to be happy, IMO.

If I don't like being in a corporation and doing the whole suit thing......I'll move to having my own company, maybe small and maybe not as much $$$.....but I might be happier. Or marry a lawyer.

Money doesn't buy happiness. I live just south of the 6th (?) richest county in the nation, not everyone is happy there. Too many people worry about what they drive, what they wear, and how to make more money instead of enjoying themselves. Geez.

Amen! I agree 100% with what you just said.

Money definitely doesn't buy happiness; if anything, it just complicates things.

[PanamaE30]

3 pages into this thread and theres still no pics of the porsche?

[clutterbucker]

People will find things to worry about no matter what. The rich high school girl that has everything handed ot her worries about nothing other than what she's wearing, what everyone else is wearing, cars, guys, gossip, etc.
The kid like me who has nothing but works his ass off, appreciates everything and worries only about money. Money sucks when you don't have it. At this point in my life, if I made a bunch of money, it wouldn't complicate shit. It woul dmake me a happy man, because everyhting in my life rocks, aside from my income. 22-25k a year.

Money is NOT always a bad thing.

[Dave]

Re: Found my new inspiration to stay in school

Education is overrated.

Funny how the educated never make this claim.

I dont want to be a lawyer or a doctor or any other profession where one is required to get massive higher education. Those fields of work hold no interest to me.

Thus such education is worthless to me.

Those of us who undertook such "massive higher education" realize that the schooling was much easier than the profession that followed. Being in school is a breeze compared to working!

I spent 19 years in school (12 yrs -k-12 - yes 12, I skipped one in there - 4 yrs college -3 yrs law school). Could I be making 6 figures doing something else - perhaps. But my chances of making that type of money were greater due to education. So, such education was not worthless to me.

Some people are not cut out for it. Not that they are not smart enough - just that they aren't wired the same way.

Oh, and Jordan, testing in the top 2% on the GED means you tested better than 98% of the people taking the GED, NOT 98% of the population. BIG Difference. Still a good score, no doubt.

[rwh11385]

Re: Found my new inspiration to stay in school

Oh, and Jordan, testing in the top 2% on the GED means you tested better than 98% of the people taking the GED, NOT 98% of the population. BIG Difference. Still a good score, no doubt.

But going to college makes the educated better than the rest of the population. :roll: Or some would like to believe (not pointing to you Dave, just people in general)

Some people would like to think that a big name school spells success. My friend was convinced that going to MIT rather than Purdue would lead to much more money. The average difference in salaries of undergrad ME was like $5K. Not as extreme as he had thought! Of course, he was just out of high school as was I, and not quite aware of the world. My girlfriend is quite obsessed with going to a school with prestige, when it probably rests more on her what kind of education she gets, or what she pulls from it.

In my opinion now, college isn't the sole way people can mature and grow. Real life and the real world educated people, but the fact is for a lot of people, college is the first take of the real world. First taste of freedom, first chance to meet a lot of new people, and try new things......and plus, an opportunity of easier access to alcohol.

People who don't go to college, and try to make it on their own, will obviously learn the real world well enough through experience. Although college seems like life with training wheels and is an easier pill to swallow. If someone makes it on their own, and learns from experience, they may be better for a job......even if companies now are looking for some college degree to distinguish candidates. The degree is a sign you could do it, you could make it......even if making it on your own and working molded you into something as good, or perhaps better.

[Dave]

Re: Found my new inspiration to stay in school

Oh, and Jordan, testing in the top 2% on the GED means you tested better than 98% of the people taking the GED, NOT 98% of the population. BIG Difference. Still a good score, no doubt.

But going to college makes the educated better than the rest of the population. :roll: Or some would like to believe (not pointing to you Dave, just people in general).

No, it just makes you more educated. Whether someone is a "good" person or better than the next guy has nothing to do with your education.

Some people would like to think that a big name school spells success. My friend was convinced that going to MIT rather than Purdue would lead to much more money. The average difference in salaries of undergrad ME was like $5K. Not as extreme as he had thought! Of course, he was just out of high school as was I, and not quite aware of the world. My girlfriend is quite obsessed with going to a school with prestige, when it probably rests more on her what kind of education she gets, or what she pulls from it.

It is not so much where you start out after graduation that you see the diference. It is the amount of doors that are opened to you based upon the school. The MIT Purdue comparison is not a good one because Purdue is viewed as one of the better engineering schools. But, if you go to Southeastern Bejeezus Community College, or maybe a small state school without the rep, you will not even get in the door for some interviews even if you are a 4.0 student that some of the bottm level students from Harvard etc. can get. I went to a top 30 law school and was near the top of my class and could not even get a sniff from some firms that will gladly hire the guy who is dead last in his class at Harvard or Stanford.

Bottom line, if you don't go to college these days your chances of being stuck in a dead end wage slave job are higher. That does not mean you can't still be a raging success. It is just less likely.

Of the multi-millionaires out there who earned their wealth as opposed to inheriting it, there are more than a few who did not go to or finish college - men and women who started their own business, contractors, restaurant owners, etc. But look at the people making between 100 and 500k a year and you won't find too many who got there without a degree though.