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Thread: So you think your a winner cause you went to college?

post 10000182694 05-23-2026, 11:06 PM
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So you think your a winner cause you went to college?

College is huge waste of time if you really meant to make it big your gonna make success at bussines only. Winners are business men and you don't need a college degree to make bank at it. Only the lazy and uncreative go to college with intentions of making it big.
post 10000182697 05-23-2026, 11:13 PM
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Originally Posted By ManOfBMW⏩
College is huge waste of time if you really meant to make it big your gonna make success at bussines only. Winners are business men and you don't need a college degree to make bank at it. Only the lazy and uncreative go to college with intentions of making it big.
Spent most days drinking, gambling, boning prime sloots, and miscing. Still walked away just shy of a first class degree, high 2;1. Best time of my life tbh.
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post 10000182698 05-23-2026, 11:17 PM
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Estimated lifetime earnings by educational attainment (in millions of dollars):



https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education-earnings.html
post 10000182699 05-23-2026, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted By MiscDetective⏩
Estimated lifetime earnings by educational attainment (in millions of dollars):



https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education-earnings.html
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post 10000182704 05-23-2026, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted By MiscDetective⏩
Estimated lifetime earnings by educational attainment (in millions of dollars):



https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education-earnings.html
Lol, thread backfire
post 10000182708 05-23-2026, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted By AverageKenneth⏩
Spent most days drinking, gambling, boning prime sloots, and miscing. Still walked away just shy of a first class degree, high 2;1. Best time of my life tbh.
Sounds like my experience. 6 years in the states (FL/TX) - some years partying 5 nights a week while maintaining a scholarship (needed to keep 3.6 gpa.) Best time of my life and wouldn't trade it for anything.
post 10000182720 05-23-2026, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted By MiscDetective⏩
Estimated lifetime earnings by educational attainment (in millions of dollars):



https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education-earnings.html
Irrelevant for Gen z most who went to college can’t find a decent job. Boomers lived in a different world
post 10000182725 05-23-2026, 11:49 PM
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I wish I went to university and became a doctor or lawyer. Easy 500-600k a year and great job security. "Start a successful business" is a meme, only a handful if people are destined for that.

Everyone else is a loser.
post 10000183906 05-24-2026, 05:40 PM
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Bump.
post 10000183918 05-24-2026, 05:44 PM
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It is a marketing tool for the individual and business’.

You can use a degree to market yourself and business’ often hire people with degrees or have degree requirements so they can claim their business is professional.



People should not go into the kind of debt required to get a degree because it doesn’t normally pay off.


It isn’t dumb, it isn’t smart….

It is just a neutral tool that can be used in some scenarios
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post 10000183924 05-24-2026, 05:47 PM
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I went to university in 2010.

Different world back then.
post 10000183933 05-24-2026, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted By MiscDetective⏩
Estimated lifetime earnings by educational attainment (in millions of dollars):



https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/research-summaries/education-earnings.html
if u found comfort in this chart, this thread wasnt intended for u

half the kids go to college now and the other half doesnt go because they dont want to

the thread title specifically says "winners"
post 10000183936 05-24-2026, 05:53 PM
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Half the point of college and uni is meeting new people your age, networking and meeting women. I feel bad for anyone that didn't experience that srs
post 10000183940 05-24-2026, 05:55 PM
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post 10000183962 05-24-2026, 06:02 PM
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I didn't go to college and overall I'm proud of it (ded fkin srs).

I avoided the debt trap.

I avoided the indoctrination.

I avoided the degeneracy.

Almost everyone I knew who went off to college came back a worse person than they went in and were no further ahead in their careers than I was with just a high school diploma. Even to this day, I am the only person in my office without a degree, which just goes to show what a joke the magical piece of paper really is. Experience, competence and networking matter far more, and it's not particularly close.

Unless you're going into STEM, college is fucking useless for 95% of the population.
post 10000183974 05-24-2026, 06:12 PM
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Where I live in California it’s getting to the point where you can’t survive in this world without a college degree
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If you are 35+ this advice really doesn't apply to you. It still made sense for us to go to college. I do agree there was certainly a point of saturation. It's difficult to pinpoint one specific age that shouldn't have gone where another should have gone so it's probably not that black and white, but if I'm forced to pinpoint a specific graduating class I would say the kids who are currently 27 (and younger) probably shouldn't have gone to college. Or at the very least it wasn't a sure thing good decision for this age group and will likely backfire on a hig percentage of them.
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