Ok then, when you don't get a job because someone else has a degree and you don't, don't come crying back to me. You have like one year left and can't finish up. New Zealand, Costa Rica, etc. will still be there. Everyone is telling you for a very good reason because they are looking out for your best interests, myself included. I hope you will listen.
School will always be there too if I get the urge to finish up anytime in the next ten years or whatever too.
See what I did there?
To be honest, you and my family are 100% right but I've never done anything "the right way". I'm traveling the road-less-traveled. To New Zealand. Or Costa Rica. Or Portland.
Early favorite is New Zealand though. Don't have to worry about learning Spanish and prices are just about as nice because of the exchange rate.
Maybe I can do some sort of online classes from there. I know Boise St is starting to offer quite a bit of those.
To say school will always be there is a cop-out.
I hope I can talk some sense into you at the Bash but it seems like you've made your mind up.
I left everything right after finishing school and really wanted to do it long before but someone much wiser than me talked some sense into me.
Honestly, I don't know if I've every used my education to my advantage in the positions I've been in but really hope you will reconsider.
Knowing the field you are going into and others in that field, I strongly advise you to get your degree.
Enough of the soapbox, I was young once too.
I hope I can talk some sense into you at the Bash but it seems like you've made your mind up.
I left everything right after finishing school and really wanted to do it long before but someone much wiser than me talked some sense into me.
Honestly, I don't know if I've every used my education to my advantage in the positions I've been in but really hope you will reconsider.
Knowing the field you are going into and others in that field, I strongly advise you to get your degree.
Enough of the soapbox, I was young once too.
I will talk to ya about it at the bash but with the whole freelance writing thing, I'm not really looking for a permanent 40/hour job. I have certain writing jobs I do that are recurring but nothing where I have to put in a certain amount of time. I don't want that.
Have never been asked about school for any of this stuff. The whole industry is a little bit different (at least from what I've seen) in the fact that you are asked more about where you've written than anything else. Send over a writing example and get hired.
I understand it would be completely different if I ever wanted to write for a newspaper or magazine or anything like that but I'm happy writing for websites. Sitting at home in my underwear, drinking a beer, waking up at 2PM and getting work done on my own time. I like it quite a bit.
Just not sure a degree would help with this stuff.
And this is about the point of time I get lectured about "What if you ever change your career?" to which I have no answer.
At Your Age I'd have Taken Off In A Min.
But what the hell kind of option is Portland or NZ? That's like steak or 7up. Completely unrelated, except that they're both cities. Just curious as it seemed a strange list of choices. BOL young man, sew those oats now, before you get encumbered w/a family and all your dreams fly away. Take it from one who's traveled that road.
But what the hell kind of option is Portland or NZ? That's like steak or 7up. Completely unrelated, except that they're both cities. Just curious as it seemed a strange list of choices. BOL young man, sew those oats now, before you get encumbered w/a family and all your dreams fly away. Take it from one who's traveled that road.
