I didn't put much time or energy into thinking about this. I sort of did it on a whim. I've been pretty lucky, and have had a good amount of success in my life with my jobs, without having a degree. I've got friends who have spent much time and money earning degrees of their own, and many of them are working the same dead-end jobs that they had before graduating, and they might be earning a little or a lot more, but they also got a big debt to pay off now.
I wasn't so smart earlier in my life. Right out of high school I had a scholarship to go to a local University. It was a full ride. At the time, though, I was determined to be a "rock star" and figured that if I didn't have enough talent to make it before school, then I still wasn't going to be talented enough after I graduated. Looking back, I think that I was just afraid of the entrance audition, since I had always been last chair in any band that I was in up to that point.Then a year or so later, I did decide to go to college after some guy at a job placement center pissed me off when he told me that I needed to be more practical with my choices, even after I totally blew the placement test apart and scored high enough to do whatever I wanted. I enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh. But I was still young, and arrogant at the time. And by then I was a "rock star", only I wasn't playing in any bands or anything. I partied myself out of school within the first three months, which was hard because by the second week I was two months ahead in my studies. LOL
So now I'm old and bored. I don't party any more, and I don't do much reading or studying on my own anymore; not to mention TV and music both pretty much suck now. So what's a (29 year) old man like me do today? Go try and get an actual degree, and find out if I'm really as smart as I think that I am. :)
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