[ken nubo]

I admire the people behind the scene who run colleges and universities. They're smart at scamming people -- and people willingly hand over their money.

No folks, people don't get smarter as "civilization advance". People are still stupid as 500 years ago, although this type of stupid is a bit more insidious.

Every time a college or high school kid reads my post, they're like "Yeah ... you're right. We don't need doctors, lawyers or teacher". Whoever wants to have a "high status" job, whatever, cool.

But if you're going to college for a job, you'll end up being a cubicle rat. No doubt, my friend. (if you're lucky enough to find a job)

The truth is, going to college is basically bend over and letting people -- the employers -- **** around with you. Yes, companies use college degrees as a filtering system during their hiring process.

Suddenly every dumb kid has a college degree, now a B.A isn't good enough, everyone needs a Master degree in whatever-field.

Every look at your high school teachers during class? I met a couple of nice ones that are happy with their jobs, but the rest are miserable nits.

I see why high school kids go to college. They're scared shitless, don't know what to do, afraid of not getting a decent career, go to college because everyone else is doing it ...

The truth is, outside from jobs that require you to be certified, you can learn ANYTHING on your own, so you don't have to pay some dumb shumuck with room temperature IQ money to teach you HTML or Visual Basic.

(And yes, I know you can't learn heart surgery on your own, smart ass. Or maybe you can .. hmmm)

So what's up with this **** with the institutions having a strangle hold on learning.

I guarantee you that you'll learn 100x times faster if you learn through experience, not through theories and class room work. It's like a guy who reads a 300 page book on "Seduction 101" but never go out to the bar.

And college kids wonder why they can't get a job because they lack the proper experience.

Fact: experience beats the **** out of fancy degrees any day. Would you hire a copywriter with experience under his belt (say, he wrote a sales copy that pulled in 1 million dollars in sell) or some fresh out of college kid with a fancy degree?

** Thinking critically

Think long and hard if college is going to be necessary for your career advancement. If it isn't, don't go! If you wanna get laid, live in campus and pretend your a student.

You can live the student life style. The only difference is that you're not getting scammed like the other students into paying for tuition fee!

I'm taking this time to write this out because I find it funny that students are making clueless decisions. Some don't even know what they're going to major in during the first year.

Fact is, take a year off, work, travel around the world (it's cheap, do coach surfing) and think. Reflect and improve your character.

University is truly a piece of **** environment where kids get suckered into paying for teaching lessons that they can learn for FREE in the library or Internet.

But still, I like university. That's where all the dumb college girls hang out.

The fact is, college is a pathetic excuse, a 4 year delay so they don't "face the real world" (whatever that means).

And this is not to brag, but the other day, 5 people with college degrees asked me, a high school drop out, for a freelance job.

Yes! Well trained, obedient college degree folks looking to work for a high school drop out who can't write a paragraph without grammar mistakes.

Hmmm.

The fact is, I'm not angry or concerned that people are wasting their money away on university, and falling into debt. It just amuses me.

Oh yeah, and the other day I met a Google employee (he was a programmer) who is like 28 years old and still has student debt. Another young English teacher (30 years old) who I have no respect for, is still owning money from the student loan.

Soooo, word of advice for all high school students out there:

Think long and hard before going to university, take a year off and do whatever. Success is up to you, not a piece of paper that you paid $50,000 for.

Don't be like those "career students" who spent 12 years going through elementary school, then 4 years of college. Then they don't know what to do. So they get another degree, then another, so they become 30 years old and still taking more college classes.

And while we're at it, here are some real life funny stories of people who go to college:

From: Detour | Posted 1/8/2008 1:47:46 PM | message detail
“We have a 24 year old looker in our office at the bottom feeder and kept saying every day “I went to four years of university for this?” before some superior scolded her for it. She doesn’t say it anymore. Education doesn’t necessarily mean **** all depending on where you are, what job you want, and who is ahead of you.”

And you think that’s funny? Haha, here’s another one:

Drez54 | Posted 1/10/2008 4:27:25 PM | message detail
“My dad spent six years in university between McGill and Concordia, getting his Bachelor’s in management and later graduated with honors in economics. He worked ~25 years as a chef in a strip club after about five in the underwear-making business, lawl.”

For those of you who are cool enough to wake up, there is an alternative path: start up a business or become self-employ.

I know a 19 years old guitarist who teach kids out of his house for 30 bucks an hour. (Whoooo)

-- Ken Nubo