Quote Originally Posted by 4bangin
Its not what you know, its who you know
Thats exactly how the world works. My cousin just graduated for graphic design in California at another "Quick School" and has $50k in loans. Shes working at the YMCA right now. Me for one wouldnt look for graphic work in CA because I would think it owuld be the worlds most saturated spot for anything with computers. Shes moving down here because her loans have kicked into repayment and she cant find a job that pays more than $11/hr on that $18k a year education.

I have a lot of dice stacked against me. I have a felony record from the age of 17 that hopefully will be closed out in 2007 based on GA first offenders, so until then I work for myself. Ive lost out on tons of jobs that Im qualified for because of my record. Jobs that college grads would be puzzled at. I had a GUARANTEED job as a Event Planner and couldnt get past my BG check. EVery job that Ive had that paid decent since I was 17 has been from networking and showing people to get past my record.

My father can get me a decent job w/o the college at his company Tellabs right now travelling as an installer. An ideal job for me since most of my belonging are in storage, I have no wife/gf and I have no kids, so not much is keeping me in GA. Despite their strict BG check requirements he can get me the job today but he is so bent on me going to school. I would love to go if I can afford it, but even straight out of school your average job wants you to have experience to go with the paper. And why not put me in a job where the company pays for the school since I dropped out to help him? So I just do my promotion thing until I can get this monkey off my back. I have until 2007 and I doubt the paper would help me anyway, so im in no rush.