Lol i dont sell hogs i sell dogs and i know school is very important
I hope so... and I don't mean to preach, but I tell it to every young guy I get a chance to. Good job and keep it up man! It won't last forever, and when it's over you'll wish you were back at it!!!
Ryan, well worded. I would sure do things different if I could go back and do them over! The first thing I would do us make school # 1 priority! Money cannot buy happiness, but it pays the elect bill, & puts food on the table.
Man I know that's right, and thanks! I would love to finish my college degree, but yet again here comes the money factor. It should've been #1 priorty then entire time I was in it! My problem wasn't the work that they dished out in high school... it was actually being there in the first place. Other kids would get mad at me cause I wouldn't ever be in school except when it was time to take a test. I'd come in, make an A on the test, and then walk right back out. Finally the teachers started getting on to me telling me it wasn't fair. I said what, because they have been here every day and I'm out scoring them on the test? LOL! Honestly, it took me to realize that I could be dead to have the want to finish. When you loose two of your best friends a month apart at age 17 it will open your eyes and let you know that you won't be here for ever and could be gone tomorrow.
Ever consider the cost of a college education vs the benefit?
4-5 years of books, tuition + 4-5 years lost "on-the-job" experience VS. just getting into a trade right out of high school and sticking with it.... Makes one wonder just how valuable a college education really is...
My best friend beat out 6 other candidates for a position with a major industrial gas company, he has a high school diploma and nothing more. The other 6 candidates all had college degrees...
At 20 years old my brother was making 70k a year with no degree, in the IT industry.
Heck, I pay the guys that work in my warehouse $19.00 per hour, and I don't care what level of education they have. That's just under 40k a year with no OT... My little sister, with a masters degree works as a teacher and only makes 45k. Just the cost of her degree, it will take her well over a decade @ 5k per year above my warehouse guy, just to make her degree pay... not to mention the 5-6 years she lost in the workforce... That puts my warehouse guy at over 200k above her in earnings, before she ever deposits her first paycheck.
Now, I am not saying college is a bad thing, and certainly some fields do require a degree. The reality, is that a college education is no more a prerequisite for a good job today than it was 30 years ago.
