This is a real life dilemma and I'd like /pol/'s opinion.
My grandfather who passed 10 years ago left me $20k for college/university, however I honestly can't see college being useful for me. All I want to do is start my own business(es) and I genuinely feel like I don't need college to help. I'd rather read some books on business or the industry I want to sell in, as opposed to blowing money to have a professor "teach" me and a hundred other students at once by cramming a bunch of info down our throats and trying to memorize (more than actually learn) a bunch of info for tests.
That $20k is currently saved in the Canadian equivalent of what you'd call in the US a "529". But since there's fees/penalties to use it for anything non-educational related, it gets cut down to about $8k.
So... $8k in cash or $20k for educational purposes?
Collage, a wonderful bricolage of learning and chicks
Study engineering faggot
>>78115929
>choosing between less than a years funds for college or a bit over an average months wages
really makes you think...
>>78115929
i think you have the right idea about college and its usefulness, particularly within this field of study. it would far better to befriend someone who started their own business to teach you the basics.
i would venture with the business idea though find a different source of capital while keeping the money in the fund. if the business plan shits the bed then you still have 20K for other things like learning a trade or studying a different subject.
>>78115929
trade school imo
sry can't relate I get everything for free
>>78115929
You're really going to turn over $12k to the government? Go to fucking community college.
>>78116697
I just realized that about $7k of the $20k is actually the government's contributions to the fund over time.
>>78116382
oh and to put it in starker terms for you, op. think about it:
if you take the 8K, that's a 12K loss! that's money you'll never get back.
you could borrow 5K, lose it completely and still be ahead at the end, than if you had taken the 8K and lost that under the same conditions.
keep the 20K.
>>78115929
go to school dumbo.
it's only a waste when you have to indebt yourself for it. you get to go for free/cheap.
>>78115929
Go to college for engineering or any hard science. Robotics is cool, nursing is cool.
>>78115929
8k in cash. Because i can make that 20k within two months.
What kind of fuckin question is that you leaf.
>>78115929
What sort of business do you want to start?
Uni/college can certainly give a lot of advantages in life. Saying that though, certain lines of work do not require it at all and wasting a few years would be detrimental.
