I could list more people or prominent institutions that were founded by autodidacts, but I won’t. The point is, a college degree doesn’t equate to your ability to be successful or even land a good job. I know a lot of people who have degrees but are suffering to find jobs. Colleges also don’t teach you everything you need to know. How do you deal with people? How do you overcome financial pitfalls or obstacles that are specific to your company? Through experience and learning that takes place on the job. Colleges teach knowledge through experience. Basically, everything that is taught in schools was at some point learnt by someone who decided to go out into the world and just do it. I am by no means discrediting college, instead I am suggesting that it is not necessary for fruitful career.

How is it that two more years of “structured” “formalized” “accredited” education is going to make me that much more desirable to employers? There’s not a single thing you can do in this world for two years that will make you that much more an outstanding individual. I’ve had enough years on this earth to recognize that. In fact, I can break this down further.

For me to obtain my B.A., I would have to take twenty more classes. Twenty. It’s a joke. Twenty classes is nothing. I read the equivalent of twenty college books in a single year, easily. Not that I ever had to read my college textbooks to get straight As. College is a joke – for some of us.

It was for me, anyway. Some people do actually need college to reach a particular level of cognitive and cultural/social development. I didn’t. My education will be lifelong, and there is no piece of paper at the end of it. Just a casket, like everyone else.

I’d rather work a variety of jobs, build an impressive resume, and always have that A.A. there to spice it up – and hey, maybe I’ll take a few courses here and there, get a B.A. ten years from now, or an M.A…or maybe even a PhD! But I don’t think living in dormitories and avoiding the real world is the right sort of education for people. You want an education, go work in manual labor for awhile…and recognize how much work goes into producing ANYTHING of PHYSICAL value.

1. Not in college.
2. Have not finished college.
3. Do not like the discipline of doing all those learning stuff that they think might not even be used in the future.
4. Are in the different line of work – far from what they studied earlier.
5. Are finding it easy to justify against it because it did not work with them.
6. Believe that a diploma alone is a ticket to a job – guess what, not!.
7. Are less likely to get hired over the one that went to college.

School is for education, education is for learning, learning for growth. If you went to school and did not try to learn or have not learned how to actually apply learning into real-life, then that is when it turns into waste.

There was a time when you became a lawyer by studying with other lawyers…a doctor the same way. Licensure came about and now ‘without a degree’ you can’t become those things.

Remember: College is a BUSINESS – Big business!!