Wednesday, December 14, 2005
This'll probably catch a few people out, and no doubt disapoint a few more.... I've dropped out of college. The whole "go to uni, get a degree followed by a big well paid job" plan is dead in the water.Why?
The very short answer is college was making me miserable.
The longer answer is somewhat more complex.
What it really comes down to is this.
I asked myself "Do I as an extremely independant person who *hates* being told what to do, really want to spend a year jumping through hoops, learning very little, and what little I do learn is despite the tutors, not because of them... and then go onto uni and get into *huge* debt (around £20k) so I can learn a whole lot of stuff that I'll hate and just a little of what I'll like, for four years.... so that I can then go onto a job which though it will be well paid, will basically mean doing what someone else tells me to do?"
Well, this question has been going through my head for the past few weeks, and though I've been resisting giving myself an honest answer, I finally had to face up to the fact that the answer is a resounding "Hell no!"
So here I am, feeling relieved that I don't have to go back to that place and have my time wasted by some boring twit who's getting paid good money for blathering on about nothing and simply going through the motions.... but also feeling entirely fed up, coz I quit. I didn't do what I'd set out to do. That part sucks.
What now?
I go back and do what I should've done all along. Build more websites.
Expect a fledgling "Benway's World" to appear shortly after christmas.
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Steve 3:24 PM [+]
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