Do you regret persuing college?

[Conspicuous Cultist]

Kind of what the title says. I have a morbid curiosity for these kinds of things.

Also how did you go around to paying it off? Was it through the military, loans, rich grandmothers?

[Deleted]

I enjoyed College because I pursued something I enjoyed, people doing so for the money may be in for a miserable time.

[MetroidHunter]

There's an irony in the title of this post, can you spot it?

[Deleted]

There's an irony in the title of this post, can you spot it?

Yup, but lets not spoil it.

[Graeham]

Yeah, it wasn't a complete waste of time but it didn't quite deliver either. If I could go back in time I'd have done something completely different.

[Kalis]

There's an irony in the title of this post, can you spot it?

Perhaps they regret not having pursued going to college, who knows?

[Hammerfest]

In retrospect, I didn't need a degree. I was told I did (by academe, of course), but I didn't.

[Spectral]

I wound up taking a circuitous route to where I'm at now, I don't directly use my degrees, but I'm glad I did it and I think I'm better off for it. I'm happy with my income, my job, and my future prospects.

[omnivores]

I enjoyed college and love my degrees. However, I regret it because I now have insane amounts of loan debt and no job. (I have non-basket-weaving, non-art-history, "serious" degrees before someone jumps all over that.) My options are joining the military or making minimum payments for 25 years until they supposedly will be forgiven. At least repayment is income based now so I won't be crushed. (Thanks Obama!) Could be worse. I would have voted "mixed feelings" if it was an option.

[Deleted]

I don't.
While I still have quite some years of studies before me, and while I probably will earn a lot less than some people who don't even have any college degree at all, I'm doing something that interests me. Which - for me - is the most important thing.
But of course it's easy for me to talk, since I don't have to take up any loan or debts.

[Deleted]

Pretty much with Tommo said without the horror of living in Scotland. It was a 3 year party, booze, drugs and women. I knew what day of the week it was by what offers there were in town that night. It was mad fun.

I pay back whatever little amount it takes from my paycheck. Must have been in about 21k of debt when I left, straight into a job and easy street ever since.

[Deleted]

Do they teach you how to pursue or does the school itself chase you?

[Fibh]

Absolutely.

Worked hard to finish my bachelor with good grades. What I ended up with was a piece of paper, very few marketable skills and years of my life I'll never get back. I'm now doing a job for which I needed a bachelor degree (not my specific degree, just a degree. In fact my employer didn't even check my degree), and nothing I learned in college helps me at all in this job.

Had I known all this up front, I would have invested a few hundred euro in a nice fake degree. Or tbh, just put on my resume that I have a degree, without any proof. They don't bother to check anyway.

[Jakexe]

Never got any employment from my science degree but enjoyed every second of it so I don't regret it.

Never enjoyed my arts degree but I got employment from it so I don't regret it.

Every time I look at my student debt I cry a little.

[Spectral]

Had I known all this up front, I would have invested a few hundred euro in a nice fake degree. Or tbh, just put on my resume that I have a degree, without any proof. They don't bother to check anyway.

People do this, and some get away with it, but it often catches up to them later. Some employers will check, which limits opportunity, and if you actually were to rise through the academic or corporate world, you have the hammer of fraud hanging over your head at all times. Not really a great plan relative to just earning the degree. Sure, degrees are primarily about signaling rather than knowledge, but signaling is economically relevant.

[majinbebi]

Nope. I attended Harvard for little, met my fiancée there, and now we are both doctors.

[Deleted]

im in college right now and i cant say i regret it

not that i have any choice, without college im useless unless i want to work in mcdonalds or something

[Reeve]

I went to an affordable college, San Jose State University. When I started it was $1500/semester, and when I finished it was $2200/semester. My parents paid the tuition, books, and a small amount toward my apartment. I worked 30-40 hours a week for all my other needs. At the end of college, I had a couple thousand dollars in credit card and car loan debt, which I paid off within a year and a half of my first job.

I don't regret it, because I couldn't have gotten the job I have without it, which has allowed me to travel all around the world doing interesting things, and put me in the top 8% of earners for my age group, which is good enough for me!

[Frozenbeef]

Uni was very tedious, i lived at home so had a 2 hour bus ride every day, the people there were incredibly lazy and any 'group' work would involve me doing it all and them doing nothing but putting their names on it as well. Got a first but I'm pretty stupid so i don't think uni is a very good indicator of knowledge/ intelligence. Not sure it has actually helped me but at least it means my options aren't completely blocked if i wish to progress.

[GennGreymane]

Kind of, but maybe in the way everyone does

I just started law school so my undergrad was inevitably pointless in general, but I always do wonder what alternate reality Greymane is up to if he had chosen archaeology/history, or geology/astronomy instead of pol sci/criminal justice and the law. all of which are my main interests.