Dropping Out.

I admire your convictions and your courage to live by them. People like you are far and few between.

I don't know about where you live, but here in the U.K. going to university definitely allows you to have a better chance of employment. I admire what you did. But remember you can still enjoy those simple pleasures in life, while making a good living and helping your friends and family if they ever needed any financial help. ;)

Very smart. College isn't for everyone. It is necessary for some who have a true passion for a particular carreer field that can not be entered without accreditation, Dr is a good example though there are many others, especially in the sciences. I chose a similar path as yours, in the sense that i forsook college, and do feel I have lived a full life. I've done just about everything for a job, most all of them only part time, and even lived in my truck for a while. I was never one too need a lot of material possessions aside from things that were needed for my creative endeavors, like cameras, guitars, computers, etc. Though as with anything it has it's drawbacks. I have lived paycheck to paycheck my entire life and now at 40 it is starting to wear on me, and as for retirement and security should I get sick or suffer a major disability.. forget about it. That said, people all around the world manage with less than I have and with far less stability, but they also tend to have strong family and community support. Here in the the u.s. that kind of thing is highly eroded, especially in urbanized areas. There are other factors to my lack of financial prowess that has nothing to do with college, or the lack there of, like a prolonged struggle with depression that makes motivation and working long hours a real issue. And we all know you need to be highly motivated to make even moderate amounts of money. Now, mind you I am not talking rich, just not always worried about money and how you are going to pay rent or see a doctor or fix your car, etc. No you don't need money to survive, but there are lower levels of survival I never want to know about personally. It's a mixed bag. College could have helped me had i gotten a major in a discipline I was passionate about. Had I had it to do all over again I would either go to school to get a head start/degree in a creative feild that suited my talents best, or totally learned to live off the grid (grow my own food, hunt, goldpan, make pet rocks, whatever it took) to live for the most part without society and its shackles. Though the Indians did that and got killed and kicked of their own land, so I doubt I would have better luck than they did, shy of becoming a total hermit in a hard to reach location. I really get you though, but just want to say living outside the mainstream and forsaking financial stability for individual freedom is a young persons game, though can be very rewarding indeed.

I did the same thing in 2011 with one year left. I don't enjoy any of the activities, and I can learn faster by myself. The grading and lack of actual instruction was ridiculously stupid. There was almost no instruction at all in my college. It was just discussion in class, or reviewing each others' work to point out everything we already knew was wrong with it, and then going home to "learn" everything alone. I can do that by myself. It is a waste of time. The only purpose for it is to get an increase in payment at a potential job that I don't even want.



I've quit working and also decided to never "work" in the traditional sense for money again in my life. I had a job for 3 months after college animating and programming with Flash and even though I am someone who likes artistic stuff as well as programming, it was some of the worst time I've experienced ever.



If the thing called "supporting yourself" or "surviving" means doing useless tasks for someone else to help them accumulate money and produce more useless stuff for a society without an ultimate goal, then I would rather die.

**** corporate slavery! But how to escape the machine? It can be a lonely road. I stick to it out of fear of loneliness. At least I can have company in my misery.

I hope you're ok. :(

A modern day rousseau. I like it ^^

Nearly all of the most richest people in the world never finsih school left alone college