Dropping Out.

I finished high school, but I'm contemplating dropping my college classes. I just feel college isn't for me. And I've personally never liked school. I wanted to drop out of high school, but I knew my parents would kill me if I ever brought it up.

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What do you plan to do without a college degree behind you?

Edward Teach:

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What do you plan to do without a college degree behind you?

You can do plenty without a college degree.

College is overrated.

I dropped out because seeing and hearing the same thing every year got boring. Big deal. I can still make a great life for myself when I get my GED. Do any of you know just how many big business people never graduated high school? quite a bit so stop lying when you say none of us will amount to anything because we only have a GED and or no college education. You're wrong.

Regrettable Silence:

I dropped out because seeing and hearing the same thing every year got boring. Big deal. I can still make a great life for myself when I get my GED. Do any of you know just how many big business people never graduated high school? quite a bit so stop lying when you say none of us will amount to anything because we only have a GED and or no college education. You're wrong.

The people who say that aren't wrong, actually. Look at the welfare ques in England and Ireland; there not just made of those who are unemplyed, there are a lot of school drop outs in those ques. Statistics are against drop outs but like it's been said through out this thread, that doesn't mean they won't amount to nothing - some of them will. But it can't be denied that a lot of things become easier with an education behind you.

I did my GCSEs and I've just started sixth form college. I was thinking of dropping out because I'm so miserable and don't think I'll be able to cope with the work, but I'd never be able to get a job |:

Regrettable Silence:

I dropped out because seeing and hearing the same thing every year got boring. Big deal. I can still make a great life for myself when I get my GED. Do any of you know just how many big business people never graduated high school? quite a bit so stop lying when you say none of us will amount to anything because we only have a GED and or no college education. You're wrong.

God Eat God:

You can do plenty without a college degree.

College is overrated.

With a college degree you automatically get better jobs, even if you don't go to work in the area you're specialised in. Better job, more money, easier life. And yes, money really is everything. You can have the most amazing family and friends, but if you're in debt and struggling to get by, you will permanently be stressed out and in a bad place. Yes people can be hugely successful without degrees, but most of the time they are naturally exceptional in what they do.

I don't think trying to build yourself the best future you possibly can is ever a bad, or overrated, thing. It's being practical.

Not attacking, just saying.

God Eat God:

You can do plenty without a college degree.

College is overrated.

Agreed.

My boyfriend just got promoted in Sears as a manager, and he has no college degree.

When we had some dramas going on with sport, I wanted to drop out.
And if the dramas do start up again by the time I'm 17 then yeah, I'd drop out. Might just do online studies if I do (I highly doubt I would, my parents would kill me)
My best online friend/boyfriend did. He said it's so hard to get a job, which he's trying to do.

I don't mind school. I'm stressed as fuck with assignments, but that's because I'm in the Gifted and Talented 8th grade classes. And I hate just about everyone there except for my 2 friends.

I dropped out of high school nearly two years ago. Contrary to popular belief, I didn't do it because I was lazy nor did I do it because I lacked the motivation to finish school. I didn't actually want to drop out but it quickly became my only and best option. Dropping out was the best option for my mental health and life in general. I wasn't safe at my high school and with living in a small town at the time, switching schools wasn't an option. I was out of other "better" options so I turned to my last resort, which happened to be dropping out. I spent a year begging and pleading my mother to sign the papers because in the State I went to high school in, a student couldn't drop out until they were eighteen. If they were under eighteen, they had to have their parent's permission to do it. My mother doesn't know the real reason I dropped out and she probably never will, but it's better that way.

I don't regret dropping out because it was the best option for me, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone and tell you to treat it as an absolute last resort like it was for me. Dropping out isn't fun and games and it does make life harder for you. No one will hire you for one thing. Before I got my GED, no one wanted to take a chance on the dropout. I've seemed to become more appealing to employers now that I've got a GED. Now I'm just struggling with the lack of work experience I have. v.v I've had a lot of people telling me to regret my decision but I don't think I ever will. I did what was right for me and that's what matters to me.

I've only recently achieved my GED... Well, I hope I've achieved my GED, I don't actually know what my final score is yet, I'm just hoping it was enough to pass. My scores on writing, reading, social studies, and science were all 600+... It's math I'm worried about not having gotten a high enough score to pass. I've always struggled with math so it worries me I didn't do well enough to pass. I'll find out in a week or two if I scored high enough in math and I'll get my certificate by the end of August if I did manage to pass. I'm looking to go to college either in the Spring of next year or Fall of next year. But that's an entirely different matter since I still don't know how I'll manage to pay for college.

I'm dropping out. I've already graduated college (which is year 11 and 12 here) and I'm just doing a tafe course in graphic design. It's really not my thing and I thought about sticking it out till the end of the year to get the diploma, but I just don't see the point in working towards something I'm not very interested in. I'm looking for a second job for during the day and saving up.

Idk, dropping out here isn't considered terrible. I know lots of people who've dropped out of tafe and I have friends who left University (some whom are extremely smart). Here is pretty good with year 11 and 12, if you have enough credits you can leave early. I knew people who left at the beginning of year 12 or halfway through and began working full time or continuing their apprenticeships.

I plan to go back next year and try studying courses that I actually am really passionate about. But for now I just want to take a break and work.

Of course I wanted to drop out, ever since middle school where everyone became fake and bullies. I had no safe place at school, I couldn't focus and because I moved around so much, I was doing badly in math classes, and that affected me severely in high school. I missed a lot of school on purpose, I was in the hospital for some time as well and that just set me back so much, I felt no desire to continue school. High school was when I reached my breaking point, with the stress of my mom and her relationships, being talked about or made fun of, it was making me depressed and I just wanted nothing more to drop out. I begged my mom to let me, but thank god she cared about me enough to help me carry on. I graduated school on time anyways, but I'll never forget the struggled I endured.

Also just pointing out, that my mom was a drop out, didn't even make it to the 9th grade. However she still went to a community college and has always always always landed a job she wanted. It's not a walk in the park, but she's found an awesome job working for band campaigns and fanbases that pays exceptionally well :)

I don't also plan on going to college. I'm going to cosmetology school where my dad went and I'm very confident in my decision, because like someone else stated, college is not for me. School was never for me.