Hey Folks, I’ve been in college for six years now and have dropped classes left and right. I had been consistent in the beginning and, of course, Covid had caused a bit of problems with consistency. Since that time, my grades slipped. I’ve dropped classes as well. I should have graduated two years ago however i’ve been working to survive since. I’ve got roughly 40k in student loan debt. each time I try and take classes again, I manage to for about two weeks and then after i have some random event in life come in and just ruin my motivation. (death, sickness, major change in lifestyle, etc.). I’ve been working in a career that was based upon my major and it is a decently comfortable and consistent job (IT), with some stress just due to the human interaction, however I do have issues with debt (working well to get out of but won’t be completely out of non-student loan debt until 2025). I’d consider going back in about six or seven years depending on how life treats me, but is it worth cutting my losses, start paying back student loans, and focus on my job? If I do manage to take classes, i’ll have about two years worth of classes to bust through but I’m not sure if I can push that much effort back out.
I’ll just give my point of view about college.
I had done about 1.5 years worth of college, repeating classes I had already done in highschool (compsci) and thinking I shouldn’t have started in the first place.
After I had done finished the last semester (not well ofc since I didn’t give a fuck about my grades) I decided to officially drop out and pursue my career full time and self learn everything and gain experience from working.
Can’t say it was a bad decision looking back but I was also grateful to be taken in by a small development shop!
But hey now I can say I have worked for redacted on my resume and built out some of the most robust CI/CD pipelines that company has ever seen! Lol