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user-inactivated  ·  4232 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should I Quit College?

It takes interaction with the government to get to Mexico, and it takes money to interact with the government. You're talking about a pipe dream, and dropping out of school to chase it would only fulfill the mistake of going to school for jazz in the first place.

Money and work don't need to get in the way of experiencing nature and understanding the important things in life. They aren't mutually exclusive, it just seems that way to you.





BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4232 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd recommend you read The Man Who Quit Money.

I think that regardless of what I went to school for, I'd have come to this realization.

thenewgreen  ·  4232 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For the record, Daniel Suelo has a college degree ;-)

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4226 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just sent him an email to get his opinion on the matter.

thenewgreen  ·  4220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

any response?

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He had sent out another email recently saying that he'd be on tour with the Lakota Tribe I think it was so he wouldn't have much time to respond. We'll see though. My thoughts have been very back and forth on the issue. I figure, I should probably take responsibility for my stupidity in coming here. I must have come here for a reason, and I haven't done anything significant enough to warrant how much money I'm spending. So I'm trying to figure out what it is I was meant to do here. Perhaps that'll require me to stay another year.

thenewgreen  ·  4220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What's the date that you would graduate? Print it off on a piece of paper and hang it on your wall. Below the date write the words (hand written), "I will do this."

Then, do it.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4220 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4230 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That he does. I recently was emailing him, I should ask him if he regretted getting it. I know that he was planning on bailing out paying off his debt, but the debtors nagging his parents bothered him too much.

user-inactivated  ·  4232 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I may read that someday, but I can say confidently without reading it that you have get very lucky in terms of your circumstances for something like "quitting money" to work.

BLOB_CASTLE  ·  4230 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I respectfully disagree.

user-inactivated  ·  4230 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I certainly hope it works for you if you try it.