Post Race!

[homer13j]

I hate school actually. I feel like its a waste of time and the only reason I am doing it is to have a piece of paper that says I sat through way too many hours of boring lectures and am semi-more qualified than I was 4 years ago.

I had the exact same attitude until the age of 27 or so when I got tired of watching my photography talent make my boss rich while he paid me squat. After busting my butt at several jobs in the real world since high school I found college work to be an absolute breeze with the added bonus of meeting more girls 18-22 in the first semester there than I met in the previous few years. That in itself was worth it.

It took too long, it was incredibly dull and dreary at times, left me $20,000 in debt (late-90s), and I was forced to study a bunch of things I couldn't give two squirts of pee about. But today I make almost 5 times the money I made before college, and along the way squeezed in hundreds of hours of musical training I would have never received otherwise that led to a somewhat lucrative (if intermittently so) side career as a musician.

Safe to say I've never regretted my decision. Except for that summer with all the penicillin shots.