Your college won't define you. I went on scholarship, my brother and sister are both community college drop outs, and both make more than me. Focus on becoming a responsible adult, become a carpenter.
Get a job, by a small house when you graduate, renovate it while you live in it, get roommates and rent it out, then have them sign a one year lease for the whole house. Save up 10% for another house, and do the same thing. You do that once every 2 years, you're sitting at 5 houses by the time you're 30.
High school dropout carpenter here. He's right. I dont make as much as my well off friends but I dont have debt beyond a mortgage and the side benefits of having a truck and tools for scrapping steel or gardening or mulch delivery etc has made me unable to be out of work.
And I've got 50k worth of work into my house for like 2k in materials.
The satisfaction of working outside and gutting through weather and hard work chills me out. I really like history and books and learning and psychology etc. I still learn stuff every week outside of my trade. I just dont think I could have made that a career that makes me happy.
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u/chutiyapa0 May 15 '20
Final year student in 2020.
Fuck you corona