fameboy6000
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I dont count but it feels like ive been rejected hundreds, if not thousands of times both online and in real life. Im still not giving up though, statistically one day ill find someone.
Why did you dropout doe? How do just you exchange your future for some vague moral ideals?Same as above, there was no exact moment, it was more like a slow process. I got busier with work and had less and less time to focus on myself.
I can tell you about the exact moment I dropped out of college though. Ironically I dropped out after passing a final. I handed in my exam and the prof told me to wait outside. He called me back 5 mins later and told me I'd have to retake it. All the pages I handed in were crossed out without referencing anything in particular (Im talking about a red line going from the top left corner of the page to the bottom right corner) so I went back and respecfully asked him if he could pinpoint the mistakes I made. He looked at the exam then he looked at me again and exhaled like he was very tired. Then he told me to wait outside until the rest of the students handed in their exams. I waited almost an hour for everyone to leave and walked back in. He made me sit down and told me that he had been waiting for a tenured position for almost 10 years now and that he had no choice but to do everything the faculty ordered. He started talking in detail about his life and said he needed the money and job security, had been postponing having a kid and everything and told me his wife was very tired of waiting. I had no idea what he meant by any of this. Then he said there were too many kids signing up and the faculty told him not to pass more than 15% of his class and by the time I handed in my exam he had already passed that many so he just crossed out everything without looking. Turns out this is actually very common but I had no idea at the time. Then he said I had been very respectful and patient so he would make an exception and go over my exam again. I told him I didn't want to cause him any problems and that I would retake it next year but he insisted. He went over my exam again and gave me 70% and left. I was grateful but that was the last time I ever set foot into a classroom. That was one of the easiest classes in my program and I didn't want to go through the same bullshit with the harder ones. Imagine spending hundreds of hours studying maths or chemistry and having your entire exam crossed out because "too many kids are signing up" I don't like playing rigged games.
Between work and school I was spending 70/80 hours a week doing things I didn't want to do. I was tired all the time and had to retake some of the classes multiple times. It was the final hint I needed to realize that it was pointless, I was never going to graduate and i didn't want to turn into that guy who stays in college 20 years trying to get a 5 year degree (I met several people like that in my program) also employers aren't interested in hiring people who take too long to graduate so the degree would have done nothing for me anywayWhy did you dropout doe? How do just you exchange your future for some vague moral ideals?
I assume you are from the US and college is expensive? If not, why couldnt your mum pay for your college back then?Between work and school I was spending 70/80 hours a week doing things I didn't want to do. I was tired all the time and had to retake some of the classes multiple times. It was the final hint I needed to realize that it was pointless, I was never going to graduate and i didn't want to turn into that guy who stays in college 20 years trying to get a 5 year degree (I met several people like that in my program) also employers aren't interested in hiring people who take too long to graduate so the degree would have done nothing for me anyway
My mom has money anyway so I don't have to worry about my future
People value persistence too much. After a certain point it turns into stupidity
Money wasnt the problem, it was about time & energyI assume you are from the US and college is expensive? If not, why couldnt your mum pay for your college back then?
Then why not stop working and just spent your time studying?Money wasnt the problem, time and energy was
every female who doesn't make eye contact with you on the street considers you ugly
it is a rejection in and of itself.