I would like to be a entrepreneur, but i didnt finish college.. im wondering if i should go back.. i know i have the skills to become successful but i dont know if i need to finish.,. will college help me? can you give me some personal experiences on how college helped or how it didnt help?? is it all hype?? thanks
2006-09-05 05:36:06 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
A lot of the benefit of college isn't just what you learn, quite simply it's having the degree. A lot of well-to-do companies and institutions will not even consider highering you if you do not have a college degree, some positions even require having a masters degree now. Even being an entrepreneur, if you want more people to take you more seriously, go back to school.
2006-09-05 05:41:05 · answer #1 · answered by Nay 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Most definatly you can. When I was a young person growing up, I knew that I wanted to do something for myself. I was born and raised in a family business and I suppose that had a lot to do with things. However, I attended a 2 year technical school after high school graduation. (1971). I got into electronics at age 20 and had a very successful business for many years. Things change however, and that's what you have to watch out for, so any field you get into, be ready for change and have the ability to watch things around you so that you can adapt if need be. I have seen people go to college over many years, they come out with their degree, get into a particular field, do well, have a budget, have a family, have a retirement. Is this what you want? It never was for me. I have always felt if I was going to expend all that energy, time and effort into doing something, I wanted it all for me, (good and bad). I see people working today in their jobs and it almost seems that they are getting a "commision" from what they do at their job. They know what their paycheck is going to be everytime they get paid, but they still look at it. Otherwords, ones lifestyle is based around ones income and happiness as far as I am concerned. It's almost like their whole life surrounds their job. A person working a job can be replaced at the drop of a hat. Most companies people work for could really care less about it's employees. But many people hang on, it's what they have been taught. People get a $300 or $500 gift certificate from Wal-Mart the week of Christmas, and you would think someone had given them a Million bucks, so they sweat it out the next 12 months to see what happens the next time, etc.
My 2 sisters were older than me, and when they graduated high school, they went the normal course of going to college, got their degree and have recently retired not many years ago. They can barely meet their needs. They are still living paycheck to paycheck, except now, it's a retirement check. If something breaks in their house, they have to get a short term loan to do repairs if its over $500 dollars. One of my sisters has a part-time job to help make ends meet. I have 2 children, one went to college and became a school teacher and makes about $49,000 a year. The other took a 63 hour real estate course out of high school and makes about $49,000 a month, so one has to make a choice. Someone may argue the point about health care, dental, 401k, etc, etc, true, when you have a good job with a company because you have a college education, all of this is taken care of, but when you're self employed and make lots of money, you can afford these things yourself. What ever it is that you try, I hope you the best. As a friend of mine once said, "Their coagulations of collegial phraseology is too copius for my comprehension". Another friend of mine once said, "You can't defeat a will to win". Occasionally, I post questions in here about employment, careers, working after 50 etc to see what type answers I get, the normal world is not for me. Oh, by the way, JOB stands for: Just over broke. Also, if you decide to go to college, I don't think I would want to go to the college that the person just above me went to, they obviously don't do too great of a job at teaching spelling, but it's probably ok since this person graduated in English.
2006-09-05 07:48:57 · answer #2 · answered by J. P. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soon, in the USA, you will only be considered for a job if you have some type of education other than just a High School diploma.
As for now, yes you can be successful with out going to college. As for me, I'm going for the sure route:
BS in CS
2006-09-05 05:41:05 · answer #3 · answered by Cero Kool 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can still get a job if someone gives you a chance. Try interning or apprenticing for someone to get field experience. A company is only g oing to hire you if they know that you have training or experience in your field. Now of course there are some fields where you can't get a job because a degree and education is a requirement. You may have to make some big sacrifices to get there but follow your dream!!!
2006-09-05 05:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by binoxi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be very successful without going to college. However, the probability of being successful increases if you finish.
2006-09-05 07:02:01 · answer #5 · answered by Ranto 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bill gates did not finish college. However, he & his kind are the exception. By not going to college, you severely limit the opportunities that are available to you.
Even if you don't learn anything that is directly applicable to what you are doing, a degree is an important signaling mechanism. It is an easy way to sort out people and assign qualities, real or imagined, to them. This being said, you may have to work a lot harder to convice people of your competence & abilities if you don't get a degree.
2006-09-05 05:45:35 · answer #6 · answered by Homer J. Simpson 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You can still succeed with out going to college. I graduated college and my brother did not and we make the same amount of money. I do however think I am happier in my job than he is, and I have more job options. College also helped me to learn things about myself that I don't think I would have learned had I not gone. I wanted to be a teacher going in and comming out I am an accountant. I realized that I would hate teaching and I really love numbers and accounting!
2006-09-05 05:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by damn_sam 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello Friend
Anything's posible and you can be successful without completing college, but it'd be like shooting yourself in the foot just before running a marathon and employers are requiring that people have more education than ever before to keep jobs tfhey've already proven they can do very well. My sisters both have degrees in Speech, Language and Audiology Pathology(SLAP) and have been excellent deaf-educators for years. One has her Masters degree, but the otfher doesn't and can't find a job even tfhough she's been a teaching deaf kids to read and speak for decades.
A good friend of mine is a successful entrepreneur. We went to UNC together and he studied ultrasound in Gad. school and is responsible for many of fthe CT scanners you see in doctor's offices around fthe world. He's always traveling to install, repair and train people how to use CT and MRI scanners.
Now he's working on a new project fthat usres hog waste to feed special worms fthat produce waste fthat is a super-fertilizer and causes plants to grow to huge proportions. He's producing a super-fertilizer and helping solve NC's hog-waste problem at the same time. He's become wealthy throgh his efforts and none would have been possible withut his first getting a bachelor's degree so he could go to Grad. school to become qualified to axhieve his goals. College can also be the most fun time of one's life. Lots of freedom, lots of girls(guys if you're female), people who'll become lifetime friends and lots of booze. If you have the chance, why turn that down and who knows what employers will require to get a job next?
There's also fthe fact that very few college Grads. marry people who haven't graduated from college. If you don't go, you're just burning bridges to all sorts of better fthings in life. You can still do your entrepreneur thing after getting a degree andi f it doesn't work out for any reason, you'll have your degree to help you. Michael Jordan even completed his college degree after becoming tfhe best Pro. basketball player in the world. Doesn't fthat tell you something?
iI've never heard anyone say college was "all hype" and don't know how anybody could arrive at that conclusion.
I graduated in English from UNC,Chapel Hill,NC, attended graduate journalism school there and graduate architecture school at UNC,Charlotte,NC and participated in the Georgetown University Writer's Conference and am well on my way to completing and selling a novel. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
Join my Yahoo! group and check out the Messages and Links to see how broad my interests are thanks to college. Below is just a small sample of websites I enjoy. There are many more in my group. I've been sending al my favorites there for 13 years as well as information I read and find in other places.
I wish you all the success the world has to offer, but you need a college degree to even receive many of life's offers.
I was able to pay for much of my college by being a misician(bass and sax) and playing all over fhe Southeast, but I would never have skupped college to be solely a musician even though I could have supported myself as a musician and had some fun doing it.
\Yours,
JB :)
2006-09-05 07:02:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think it all depends on the person...college helps in situations that you want to work for a business, but would not want to start ur own...if u want to start ur own..just make sure u have a good understanding of what u plan to do..if i hire u im going to ask about ur work experience and what uve done..not where did u go to college..well maybe i would ask, haha, but id be more worried about experience...i personally went to college and feel like soon that will even be phased out, and masters and law degrees with become the norm...it all depends what u want in life
2006-09-05 05:41:03 · answer #9 · answered by Michael D 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes - you can apprentice for someone in the field of which you are interested. If it is something that does not require a degree, that can work out great.
For example, I have a cousin who started doing roofing, gutters & siding when he was a teen. In his early twenties, the owner sold him & his friend the business. He expanded out into rehabing houses, then building houses eventually. He was a multi-millionaire by 35.
2006-09-05 05:39:36 · answer #10 · answered by mustanglynnie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋