General Discussion

If I had it to do over again, I'd do 2 years of skills, work, then return for knowledge. When college is teaching you nothing, drop out. It's not all it's cracked up to be. You're as likely to be a CEO rising through the corporate ranks because of college as to be a professional basketball player, and you're in for decades of rat race and answers to the man. As a dropout, skill building smart phone debutante, you can form your own products and control your own destiny and own every penny. I sure would counsel anyone to try to achieve a blend of the two tracks. One may fail, and one is very expensive. Education is also an elitist system. It's not for plumbers, waitresses, and blue collar careers. Yet we embrace it. We pursue knowledge but we've wound up pursuing money every bit as much as any Republican. We court wealthy suburbs for good educations, but preach egalitarianism and economic populism. Those are a lot of parts that don't fit together very well.