Considering Dropping CEGEP. Didn't go to school but happy w/ your life? GTFIH

It's starting to become pretty obvious that school really isn't for me at this point in my life. It's not like I can't get good grades. When I apply myself I have done well in class. The problem is just that my motivation is going down to nothing. I find myself totally unable to focus on my studies and I can honestly say I hate every minute of the time I'm at school.

I'm just worried that I'm going to end up working some shitty job for the rest of my life and totally regret this decision.

So, do I have any chance of making it in life if I stop? Everyone has a story of someone who dropped out of school and became successful, but I feel like it's one in a million.

Discuss.

disont que tu ne vas pas améliorer tes chances. J'ai laissé tomber les études supérieurs parce que je n'aimais pas ce que j'étudiais.. En étant sur le marché du travail, j,ai réalisé que je papier est très important et j,ai retourné à l'école à 22 ans et me retrouvant une job a temps partiel et travailler comme un boeuf.

It's not necessarily the school degree that will directly lead you to being successful..school develops a certain way of thinking that makes your day to day and life choices more intelligent and sound, which will lead to the success. I was in the same boat as you and I don't regret staying in school at all. A lot of my friends did not continue with school and I see a big difference in the way I view life compared to them. You can still be successful without the schooling but the chances are it will be a lot harder than toughing out a mere 5 years of your life to finish it off. And for the whole it's not for me etc that's just an excuse to not want to put the effort. Imo suck it up put the work in, you won't regret it.

no one likes being stuck at school and study for years. there are two types of drop-outs. the first type, which reprensents 95% of them, are dumb and lazy ppl that are stuck with a low wage job for their entire life and will never go far and enjoy their lives. the 5% rest are people that are ambitious, creative and confident people that have their own projects on mind. they will be successful in life and become great entrepreneurs and make more money they the other 95%.

there are lots of blue collar manual labor that pays lots of money too btw. its up to you and your ego an physical capacities to see if manual labor is for you.

at the end, you will never get a high positioned job or be at corporate level if you dont continue school. but if you are smart enough you can still be successful and make lots of money by your own means.

I was in the same situation in cegep, i ended up finishing but not with the best grades but instead of going on to university I went to trade school. I still don't have a good job or anything lol but there wasn't much in university that interested me and my grades weren't good enough to get in anyway.

All I can say is at least finish cegep and do as well as you can, then maybe look into doing something else after that but don't waste too much time trying to decide.

i went to cegep and university.

you can barely get a good job with a bachelors degree these days. while it is important to find something you are passionate about, getting a degree is important too. DO NOT GIVE UP. After 6 years with only a BA ive managed to get a job paying 70k/year and am just now looking to go back and get my MBA for future earnings potential. If i could go back, i would apply myself and work much harder, it DEFINITELY pays off to work hard in school.

My University Degrees are not what led me to success. I designed a system that got a provisional patent. But the degree was essential to get the right contacts and funding. I don't regret it. I love what I do.

don't quit school even though it's a bitch.

Many self made men are self thought and drop outs. If you don't have a plan right now however, stay in school.

Don't.

Just got 25 and probably going back.

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no one likes being stuck at school and study for years. there are two types of drop-outs. the first type, which reprensents 95% of them, are dumb and lazy ppl that are stuck with a low wage job for their entire life and will never go far and enjoy their lives. the 5% rest are people that are ambitious, creative and confident people that have their own projects on mind. they will be successful in life and become great entrepreneurs and make more money they the other 95%.

there are lots of blue collar manual labor that pays lots of money too btw. its up to you and your ego an physical capacities to see if manual labor is for you.

at the end, you will never get a high positioned job or be at corporate level if you dont continue school. but if you are smart enough you can still be successful and make lots of money by your own means.

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So true , i pretty much dropped out but was ambicous enough so i mannaged too get my family buisness running like a bomb and invested in housing alot .

Well worth it

icy said:

It's starting to become pretty obvious that school really isn't for me at this point in my life. It's not like I can't get good grades. When I apply myself I have done well in class. The problem is just that my motivation is going down to nothing. I find myself totally unable to focus on my studies and I can honestly say I hate every minute of the time I'm at school.

I'm just worried that I'm going to end up working some shitty job for the rest of my life and totally regret this decision.

So, do I have any chance of making it in life if I stop? Everyone has a story of someone who dropped out of school and became successful, but I feel like it's one in a million.

Discuss.

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Just because of that, do not give up and finish it.

I was in a point of dropping university since I couldn't get good grades and in which resulted in loss of motivation. With people around me telling me to not give up, I managed to finish it. Now to think back about it, I would have highly regret if I've really dropped university back then as when you'll be looking for a good job, i still find this "paper" is very important unless you have connections.

gd luck

Obviously success will never come by sitting at an entry level job all my life.

It seems like you need to be completely self made.

There is also all these people with high education who end up working with me cause there is no god damn job in their line of work.

If your goal is a Career , you better go to school!

If all youre looking for is a place to make a cute living ( earning a decent amount of money ) ,you dont necessary need the degrees , just find something that suits you.

And most importantly , if youre looking for a job that makes you feel important , do not stop your studies.

I'm a drop out. I currently work a very well paid job that has very good opportunities and I have gained over the years a lot of experience which has let me to believe that in certain domains experience>school. In any case, my future plans do not involve anything taught in school.

My parents think I'm a deception... I went to University and paid out of pocket for two years to realize that I wasn't learning anything at ALL. How do I know? I went in the branch in which I already worked in so I knew what the "job" was but I wanted to get the degree in order to go up faster. Waste of time in my books... For the degree I wanted to go in, I also realize now, after all my other friends finished school, that none of them love their jobs and also they are very underpaid. Maybe later in life it'll come in handy but I want to be my own boss so a diploma really isn't needed.

You gotta know one thing; I worked my fkin ass off HARD. I didn't just let off school and worked part time....

Think of school as a safety net. Tough it out now and spend the next 60 years of your life being a fisherman or a bartender in some remote tropical island in the middle of nowhere or doing whatever the heck you want.

But at least when or if you ever decide to have a more traditional/corporate job you have something to back you up.

Unfortunately that little piece of paper is important in the eyes of many employers; maybe not so much with people you will do business with, but if you want to be an employee somewhere/some day to settle down or whatever reason, you increase your changes of landing a job by having finished (at the very least) Cegep.

icy said:

I find myself totally unable to focus on my studies and I can honestly say I hate every minute of the time I'm at school.

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Tu devrais étudier dans un domaine qui te plait. Sa t'aiderait beaucoup.
Ou trouve-toi une job dans un domaine que t'aime et fait des cours du soir dans cette branche là pour avoir de l'expérience de travail et de la scolarisation en même temps.
Moi c'est ce que je fais, j'ai commencé à travailler au bas de l'échelle ensuite j'ai faits un AEC de soir dans le domaine pour voir le côté plus technique, là je fais un certificat qui m'apprend divers aspects et me donne également une base en gestion.
J'ai jamais été quelqu'un qui aime beaucoup l'école dans ma jeunesse. Mais là j'aime bien ce que je fais! Même si c'est chiant allez à l'école après le travail, j'aime ce que j'apprend et je me force pour appliquer ce que je vois dans mes cours à mon travail!
J'aime assez ça pour déjà avoir un autre programme en vue que je vais commencer quand je finis mon certificat!

Sinon dans les métiers plus physique tu peut faire beaucoup d'argent et partir ta compagnie éventuellement quand tu as assez d'expérience! J'ai rencontrer un contracteur, il voulait pas étudier quand il était jeune, son père là fait travailler dans le même domaine que lui. Maintenant il à sa compagnie avec une dizaine de gars et donne de l'ouvrage à son père qui est retraité!

Oublis jamais que tes ambitions doivent être à la hauteur de tes rêves!!

Dont .

Moi perso je regrette. J'ai quitté après secondaire 4 pour un DEP en mécanique automobile. J'ai fini par travaillé la dedans 2 ans j'ai lâché. J'ai eu la chance de travaillé en caroserie sans cour pendant 1 ans et demi environs. Encore la pas un domaine pour moi. Je me suis promené de job en job pas mal. J'ai eu une chance de rentré chez desjardins je suis retourné a l'école faire mon secondaire 5 que j'ai fait en 3 semaine . J'ai toujours été bon a l'école mais toujours détesté sa. C'étais difficile un peu pour moi parce que après avoir fini mon cour de Mécanique ma mère est partie vivre chez son chum et j'ai du me prendre un appart seule depuis que j'ai 17 ans. Aujourd'hui 24 ans . J'ai trouvé une bonne job. Une entreprise qui ne mise pas seulement sur la scolarité mais sur le vouloir et performance de l’individu. J'ai pas un salaire de fou. Je risque de faire 37k cette année avec commission. Pas si pire on m'avais promis 32k . L'année prochaine je devrait tappé le 40k+ si mon projet de lean manufacturing marche bien.

J'ai des amis qui vont finir l'université en actuariat et Génie électrique . Je me dit fuck chu pas plus con que eux moi aussi j'aurai pu faire les gros salaire comme eux. Je sais que je serai capable. Now yé un peu trop tard. Vous dite que je suis lâche je pourrai ?? Peut-être mais je tombe a 25ans. J'ai un duplex a m'occupé. Des dettes etc etc. Ma blonde qui me gosse pour un kid. Ces un peu compliqué et je me vois pas retourné a l'école a temps plein et retravaillé le soir fin de semaine etc.

Un jour peut-être. J'ai aussi en tête de me partir un buisness un jour. Un microbrasserie pourquoi pas ! Je verai.

Tout sa pour dire que dont do it. Mais qu'il est quand même possible de devenir successfull sans diplôme mais ces pas mal plus dure. être entreprenant va beaucoup aidé si tu as pas de diplome

J'ai fait mon CEGEP et mon Université d'une shot, j'ai vraiment hais le CEGEP pour mourir, mais c'était beaucoup mieux à l'université.

Mais pour ce qui est des "self-made men" drop out, comme on l'a dit plus haut, ça existe mais c'est rare en titi.

Pour ma part, je pense que si tu ne peux pas "tougher" 2-3 ans de marde scolaire, tu vas avoir de la misère à tougher 2-3-4-5 ans de grosse marde de départ de business. C'est libérateur de mener sa barque à sa guise, mais c'est tough en criss. Pis si ça fail, c'est juste de ta faute. Certaines personnes sont plus à l'aise avec ça que d'autre, mais le problème c'est que tu le sais seulement APRÈS que ça aille failé, ou réussi.

Life is a bitch, huh?

Wow beaucoup de personne pensent comme des arrièrés ici! Sérieusement la? pas d'école=pas de vie?! Vous pouvez pas etre sérieux les gars! J'ai un secondaire 5+ un DEP en carrosserie et pourtant je réussi très bien ma vie en gagnant plus ou moins dans les alentour de 80-90k(sans overtime) par année.

Je dois dire que je ne travaille plus dans le domaine que j'ai étudié! Mais je ne suis pas un travailleur autonome non plus! Je suis un simple salarié a l'heure qui travaille pour une grosse multi-nationale.

Et sérieusement l'histoire de la vision de la vie qui change selon le degré d'étude... L O L! Dans mon cercle d'amis proche( Tous des universitaire) nous avons sensiblement les meme point de vue et opinions et meme lorsque les discussions deviennent technique je suis capable les suivre.

Ton degré d'école n'est aucunement en lien avec la facon dont tu réussie ta vie! Et franchement ceux qui selon moi ont vraiment réussis quelque chose dans la vie était tous des personnes n'ayant pas vraiment un haut degré de scolarité. Ce sont maintenant des propriétaire de grosse compagnie qui font des salaire a en faire baver n'importe quel spécialiste de la santé.

Tous est dans l'attitude de la personne et de la facon dont tu prend tes décisions. Pense en champion et tu en deviendra un que tu aie une maitrise ou un secondaire 5.