Why Only Idiots Don’t Go to College!

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Here's why you should definitely go to college!

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[everythingnotnaileddown]

No college. Worked construction my whole life. Own my home outright. Started a family. Now I work a few days a month to pay the bills. Life's good.

[KAT-dgel]

There’s a difference between education and intelligence.

[ms.newcomerteacher]

I got a history degree 20 years ago. I now know that everything learned was a lie. I’ve learned more reading on my own than in college.

[JFDSmit-rmtw]

"I never let education get in the way of my learning" - Mark Twain, I think.

[FrankandCents]

I was bitter in my twenties when I was denied enough in student loans to pay for a state school. My parents had financial troubles of their own and couldn't help. I worked multiple jobs in construction, landscaping, and demolition. I also worked in a deli and a liquor store. I learned a lot of skills along with people skills. I put myself through community college and now make six figures a year. Getting denied student loans was a blessing from above.

[weldingrockandroll]

Dropped out of highschool and started welding. At 25 I own a nice house, 2 cars, with no student debt. I'm far from rich but I make alot more than the teachers who told me I'd be a loser.

[lavin]

I went to college, got my degree in psychology and sociology, so naturally I spent the next 6 years after I graduated in the food industry.

[marleymae]

Back in the day parents prayed their kids would go to college, now they pray they wont.

[davidsonner]

As a veteran who used his GI bill to learn how to weld I approve this message

[JohnDoe-ksxx]

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit
Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad

[CaptainKMan]

I sway people from college when I can with my baby sister's success story. From delivering pizzas to a 6 figure career in the aviation industry. Never set foot in a college. You don't need BS college to be successful in life. You need brains and a solid work ethic. Go baby sis! Proud of you!

[franklucas]

I have a great life story for you. I joined the Marines in 1986 and was discharged after 4 years of honorable service. I wanted to be a welder but they made me a cook so i got out. I quickly registered at a Jr college because I was told that college is the only way to go. I had a new GI bill now and was gonna use it. I studied forestry (don't ask, it was because of a chick) for a year before i realized my massive $250.00 GI Bill check and the 2 other jobs I had just were not covering the ability to survive. Hell, Rent was $350 and groceries were $40 dollars a week and the government (our buddy) just made insurance for everyone mandatory on my beat up, but paid for, 1980 Honda so another $26.00 a month was being taken from me. I was at a Circle K one morning getting my coffee and breakfast (2 hotdogs for a buck) and this guy at the register was bitching that he just lost his truck driver and needed another. I said, "I can drive a truck" as I actually drove one for one day in the military to get a card for it (never touched one after that day). Guy hires me and then sends me and his truck down to get a new class B CDL (this was the first week for license changes to mandatory CDLs because the government (our buddy) mandated it. I passed the test and got my CDL and went to work. 5 years later I have a Class A CDL and I am working for BFI hauling garbage, medical waste and running a landfill making 75k a year. In 1997 I get divorced and BFI sells out so I decide I should go back to college to make the big bucks (eye roll). So, I join the local Army National Guard Infantry Unit and take a job as a grave digger in a local cemetery to pay for school and study straight thru for 4 years and in 2001 I graduate with honors and have 15k in student debt. I immediately get my first college job with local city making 28k a year. I managed to keep that miserable job for a year before I was activated to go fight overseas. I come back but my job is gone (Soldiers and Sailors Relief and Protection Act Was all Bullshit, "Thanks Buddy"). I deploy again to help pay off my miserable 15k student loan and then one more time again because there are NO JOBS AVAILABLE in 2007 for anyone with my degree. I am wounded in Afghanistan in 2007 and quickly discharged from the service but find out I am eligible for the newer GI Bill. As soon as I physically can I find a local trade school welding program. I enter the program and am certified after 18 months and am immediately picked up by a structural company making 65K a year. I was a welder, then a CWI, then a safety manager, now a projects manager! I should have become a welder at 18 years old as I would have been a multi millionaire by now!

[Stayfreshbrah]

Didnt go to college, got a job and owned my own home when I was 25 as a millennial. Best decision of my life.

[andersonhobbs]

I think what’s unfortunate is that people who want jobs that require college have to go through this shit. And at a young age you’re still prone to manipulation. School system is messed up

[kimberlypruszynski]

my 2 brothers almost failed high school and didnt go to college. now they are both business owners, doing well, one is a self made millionaire. me, i got a college degree, debt, had a good job for 8 years but because i am a female, married, had kids and loved them too much to put a career before them. sometimes i wonder if college was a waste for me. i love this video and its message!

[specialtymachining]

I got a mechanical engineering degree, worked in Alaska in the oil industry for 6 years before joining my Dad in our machine shop. Been poor ever since; but it was wonderful working with my Dad for 10 years, & personally helping locals with their machine problems. It's not about money, but love for your fellow man, which makes it so fulfilling.

[RachelGunn]

I saw teachers crap all over vocational students back in the 90's and 2000's while driving cars held together with duct tape and chicken wire.

[bigdaddy]

My Dad was awful in school and still struggles with reading and writing. He is a skilled welder, He is skilled in carpentry. He can build a home from foundation to finish. He can make fancy furniture. He built his own contractor business with a few hand tools and used a station wagon for a truck to start. I remember going to get a load of plywood loaded on the roof racks lol. He is also skilled at farming, and gardening.

[collinhowie]

Started in carpentry at eighteen, building restaurants and gas stations, and was able to buy my first house the following year I love this!

[stonefireice]

My husband and I are both with MS in Engineering from prestigious schools, both have patents. Our professional lives were and still are very rewarding, full of challenges and never boring.
We have 2 sons of which one went through college all the way, earning PhD in English, still paying his debts, without tenure, going from one teaching job to another. He became a bitter “woke” thing, angry with the world and penniless.
The younger son took 1 yr of college, left, then took several jobs, where he acquired very valuable skills and knowledge. Later he found 2 other guys to start their business, which became very successful. His learning will never end, but by now his Engineering skills are on a par with his dad’s! 😃 He had to go through the school of hard knocks, but he never blamed others for that- just picked himself up and started over with the same determination.