How to be successful without college?

Question

I want to own my own business and i have all these ideas. Im currently in college but it just takes to long to get a degree. What else can I do besides college?

Answer 1

Unless you're lucky, if you don't finish college, you'll be working crappy jobs for the rest of your life at places like Wal-Mart.

Stick with it. Having a degree shows you can finish something. No offense, but if you can't buckle down and finish an undergraduate degree, how will you ever finish anything else? Maybe the major you're in isn't right for you. Consider changing majors. What do you really want to do with your life? If you want to go into business for yourself, why not a degree in business?

Answer 2

Stay in school.

While earning your degree:
1) Put together a solid business plan.
2) Make contacts, polish your skills, learn new skills.
3) Take classes that will improve your chance at success.
4) Join professional organizations in the field you want to go into, very likely you can join as a student or at a junior rate.
5) Research the industry you want to go into. Make contacts with the people you most admire and ask them how they got started and how they would advise you to get started.
6) Network.

Answer 3

i think you should stay in school. it may be tough and long, but in the long run, if say your business doesn't do very well, you still have a degree to fall back on. in this world today you really can't do much or make much money without a college degree. good luck!

Answer 4

If you can't hang in for a few years to get a degree, what makes you think you will have the patience to wait for your business to become successful, which may take far longer?

Answer 5

If you drop out you better have some brilliant ideas and great peoples skills and impecable business savy.