Never went to college. Didn't need to. I do have friends though who went to college, [BLEEP] around and quickly moved back in with their parents. A job's a job in my eyes. As long as it pays the bills I never had any issues about rolling up my sleeves and working my way up from the bottom. Show up early, stay late, never turn down an extra shift and don't [BLEEP] up too many times and you should quickly see a pay increase and a potential promotion.

If that doesn't happen based on your needs? Take your experience and apply it elsewhere. Or lower your expectations. A trade school IMHO is more beneficial in the long run over an education that may turn it's back on you at some point if a school decides to close down or starts to remove certain programs, etc.

A friend of my wife is paying $100K in debt for "Chinese" alternative medicine (Acupuncture, home remedy salves, etc.) which also requires that they essentially translate a meaning in their field so they can apply it here in the Western world. I told her I thought it was a bad idea to begin with. She also ended up going up to Boulder, CO (Hipster town USA) and wasted roughly a year up there getting baked, hiking while high and chasing a boy that ended up moving to Kentucky that I also told her had zero interest in her. Then her school closed up there to boot.

She could have saved over $50K just by doing this [BLEEP] online and going out to Tallahassee just a few hours west of Jacksonville. Keep in mind. She's more of a family friend and just turned twenty-two. But what do I know? I am just a thirty-one year old "redneck". Womp...womp...womp.

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