Realize that while there may be a few people that enjoyed success after dropping out of school, they are the minority.
Most of the people I know who never had any post-secondary education, now work in shitty customer service jobs or other call centre type work. Some of them are fine with their 35-45k per year jobs but they'll never advance beyond that unless they truly excel at work. A close friend has been doing customer service at a bank for the last 8 years. Throughout the years, he applied several times for open management positions at his bank but was always refused due to his lack of a post-secondary diploma. The best he can do is move sideways, rather than up. He's now in his 30s and most of his bosses are younger than him and freshly graduated from university. The sad part is that he's the one that has to train his bosses on how things work.
Out of my many friends who have nothing but a high school diploma, only one has truly succeeded financially. That's only because he is an amazing sales person and is really ambitious. If you have the skill for sales, and enjoy that field, you can make a lot of money without education. We were all laughing at him when he started telemarketing right after high school. He was making 50k/year before the age of 20. By the time the rest of us graduated university, he was a sales manager a large IT company, making 70k/year. Now, we're all in our 30s and he's a corporate sales director, managing hundreds of sales reps, making a 6 figure base salary plus a generous override and stock options. Competing companies try to recruit him all the time.
Where I work, even 35k/year entry level positions require a Bachelor's. It doesn't even matter which program, as long as it's a degree of some sort.
Try to determine what you want in life and take the steps necessary to achieve it. If you believe you'll be happy with 40-50k for the rest of your life, you may be able to achieve that without education, and ideally in a field that you truly love. If you want more financially, the odds are on your side if you simply tough it out until you finish university. This is much easier if you surround yourself with people and friends who are smart and ambitious. If your friends are all smoking weed and working in warehouses, then it'll be much harder to be motivated to go forward.
When I ask any of my friends if they regret not going to university, all except that one guy I mentioned above, said yes. The don't like their jobs and are always living paycheque to paycheque. It's much harder to go back to school in your late 20s or 30s when you have rent/bills/kids, etc. Get it done when you're supposed to. Good luck!
Most of the people I know who never had any post-secondary education, now work in shitty customer service jobs or other call centre type work. Some of them are fine with their 35-45k per year jobs but they'll never advance beyond that unless they truly excel at work. A close friend has been doing customer service at a bank for the last 8 years. Throughout the years, he applied several times for open management positions at his bank but was always refused due to his lack of a post-secondary diploma. The best he can do is move sideways, rather than up. He's now in his 30s and most of his bosses are younger than him and freshly graduated from university. The sad part is that he's the one that has to train his bosses on how things work.
Out of my many friends who have nothing but a high school diploma, only one has truly succeeded financially. That's only because he is an amazing sales person and is really ambitious. If you have the skill for sales, and enjoy that field, you can make a lot of money without education. We were all laughing at him when he started telemarketing right after high school. He was making 50k/year before the age of 20. By the time the rest of us graduated university, he was a sales manager a large IT company, making 70k/year. Now, we're all in our 30s and he's a corporate sales director, managing hundreds of sales reps, making a 6 figure base salary plus a generous override and stock options. Competing companies try to recruit him all the time.
Where I work, even 35k/year entry level positions require a Bachelor's. It doesn't even matter which program, as long as it's a degree of some sort.
Try to determine what you want in life and take the steps necessary to achieve it. If you believe you'll be happy with 40-50k for the rest of your life, you may be able to achieve that without education, and ideally in a field that you truly love. If you want more financially, the odds are on your side if you simply tough it out until you finish university. This is much easier if you surround yourself with people and friends who are smart and ambitious. If your friends are all smoking weed and working in warehouses, then it'll be much harder to be motivated to go forward.
When I ask any of my friends if they regret not going to university, all except that one guy I mentioned above, said yes. The don't like their jobs and are always living paycheque to paycheque. It's much harder to go back to school in your late 20s or 30s when you have rent/bills/kids, etc. Get it done when you're supposed to. Good luck!
