I just recently made the decision to skip college all together. In fact.. I never had a senior year of High-school.. I took the California High-School Proficiency exam.
I'm now living as a Network Engineer for MCI WORLDCOM in the Private Network Managment Center. This is not what one would call a dream job, nor a job that brings to me what I think my future life will need. However, at 18, 60K a year is a damn good place to be.
I don't think that I am missing out, by not going to college. First of all, i never liked school. Also. Not many schools that I could have gotten into with my decisions, would be efficient in teaching me technology.. Technology changes on such a regular basis (yet at the same time, on such an irregular basis). And not many schools have teachers that are flexible enough to change their whole curriculum plan, at a moments notice. Most teachers are not devoted enough to thier job, and most tech teachers teach more than technology.
If you think that i'm missing out? i'd love to debate this with you. AOL name: Psionic Pulse. e-mail: Psionicpulse@mac.com
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I just recently made the decision to skip college all together. In fact.. I never had a senior year of High-school.. I took the California High-School Proficiency exam.
I'm now living as a Network Engineer for MCI WORLDCOM in the Private Network Managment Center. This is not what one would call a dream job, nor a job that brings to me what I think my future life will need. However, at 18, 60K a year is a damn good place to be.
I don't think that I am missing out, by not going to college. First of all, i never liked school. Also. Not many schools that I could have gotten into with my decisions, would be efficient in teaching me technology.. Technology changes on such a regular basis (yet at the same time, on such an irregular basis). And not many schools have teachers that are flexible enough to change their whole curriculum plan, at a moments notice. Most teachers are not devoted enough to thier job, and most tech teachers teach more than technology.
If you think that i'm missing out? i'd love to debate this with you. AOL name: Psionic Pulse. e-mail: Psionicpulse@mac.com
-Erik
MCI Worldcom