Hello /soc/ how many here graduated from college? What was your

I didn't even make it through High School,

>>24165316

How has that affected you? Do you regret that or are you fine with it?

>>24165279
I had basically the opposite experience.

College was awkward and painful from a social perspective. I graduated with only a few friends and basically only one good sexual experience. (I actually got laid more in my senior year of high school than in four years of college. And I didn't get laid much in high school. I say that to show how little I got laid in college.)

>be me
>college
>gonna be a teacher
>college is cool
>is going well
>dem grades
>last leg of the race: student teaching
>it's a disaster
>omg fml
>walk away
>drop everything
>crippling depression
>3-year hiatus doing any and every drug I can get my hands on
>total drug addict
>this sucks
>gotta try again
>clean myself up
>go back to university
>re-enroll
>student teaching round 2
>doesn't suck this time
>this is working
>finally finish and graduate
>am teacher now
>fffuckyeah

And that's my college experience. It was a 8-year excursion and I walked a very crooked path. The first 4 years were awesome. The next 4 were dark and depressing. No regrets though...

>>24165279
Is this a joke?

No shit you're having trouble adapting; you wasted your entire college career doing nothing productive. When people say networking is important, they're not talking about fucking a new chick every month. Simply having a degree just isn't good enough anymore.

>>24166052

What are you doing now that you're out of college?

>>24166097

Sounds rough, I'm glad it worked out in the end.

>>24166123

I'm not having a problem finding work, I worked in a research lab while in college and I'm planning on applying to grad school (since for my degree I would get a stipened and have costs covered) or vet school.

I'm just having a hard time adapting to the lack of social experiences in the real world. And I still have close friends it's just not the same as being able to meet new people on a daily to weekly basis.

I graduated 3 years ago. I studied audio engineering which is pretty risky and competitive. I got really lucky though, and right out of school I landed a version of my dream job doing music in the videogame industry. That was really awesome, I was invincible for a while, but it only lasted 2 years and after extreme difficulty finding more work in that field, I don't do that anymore. I'm not ruling it out completely but I need steady work.

Then I was driving trucks and working in a warehouse for a while, but I just quit that job to be a delivery driver for Amazon. So that's where I'm at with work. I still make original music as a hobby and I think it's pretty good.

I partied alot in school, and at some point the drinking carried over to my day to day life. I developed a problem and ended up in the ER about a year ago from alcohol withdrawals. I've been sober since then, so for about a year.

I'm single, I have a date with a girl I actually met in college next weekend. I haven't seen her since I graduated but she had a crush on me and we used to hook up. Would be cool if that could happen again.

Most of my friends from school I don't see anymore. Some I've kept in touch with but we've all moved to different places for the most part.

All in all could be a lot worse, but I feel a bit lost.

>graduate high school in 2006
>go to junior college
>after first semester, start taking EMT courses
>eventually get job working 911 while finishing my paramedic
>get into accident at work within 90 days
>get fired
>decide to go to school for nursing
>take a bunch of nursing pre-reqs
>realize they won't transfer and what am I doing
>why don't I just go to regular college and be doctor?
>transfer to real college, first year biology
>nope.jpg
>take business courses, switch degree plan
>graduate from business college
>can't find work
>work as operator in plan for two years
>shift work
>sucks
>thinking about being a teacher like my wife
>send out a million resume
>find job doing inside sales for equipment rental company
>everything is awesome
>can either go into management or outside sales
>go into outside sales
>management fucks up territories and cripples me from the start
>wife is pregnant
>I made the wrong decision
>make less money now than I did before because my commission is so low
>fuck this, I'm out, let's go teach

so I'm taking the Texes Core 4-8 on Wednesday because if I don't take it on that date I have to wait a minimum of two-three weeks to test. Social Studies is an apparent awesome fit for me. Having to refresh myself on some of the stuff for ELA, Math and Science. Been a while.

Been cramming all weekend, still have to plan my week out for my sale gig that I'm leaving.

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>>24165279
volunteering helped me gain a better sense of purpose, as preachy as it might come off. I normally volunteer at a wolf shelter and it's a great feeling to feel like you're helping to make a difference


>>24165316

don't feel bad anon, I didn't finish high school myself, dropped out and finished at an 'adult high school' to get my GED, then took a four year break working shitty retail jobs. It was honestly exactly what I needed to get a wake up call and figure out that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life working shitty minimum wage jobs, so now I'm in college working on a degree in biochem forensics and doing better than I would have if I had gone in straight from high school.

It was honestly one of the best choices I've ever made.