Thread 83053664

People who didn't do well at school or dropped out, how's your life now? Do you think grades matter?

>>83053664 (OP)
I graduated high school but that was it wasn't a good student. College matters because it qualifies you for jobs that you're walled off from otherwise. Otherwise you're stuck working shit jobs with the bottom of the barrel scum of the earth or hope to get lucky with arts/entertainment.

>>83053664 (OP)
grades dont really matter per se. actually learning and building skills is not a pass/fail experience, it's something you do over a lifetime of iteration and experimentation. imo a lot of how school is designed is counter productive for autists & hikki type people and makes it more likely for them to become full hikkis.

>>83053664 (OP)
I dropped out in middle school and I'm almost 30, a KV and I live with my mom who has cancer as a NEET. Grades matter as far as getting into college goes, I imagine.

I joined a trade Union and make good money.
Most everyone in the Trades is the ADD/ADHD kid from high school who couldn't sit still.

>>83053664 (OP)
>how's your life now?
living with my parents, waiting for neetbux
grades do matter but it's not the most important thing, you need to be good with people above anything else, so physical attractiveness and being neurotypical matters more

>>83053664 (OP)
i had to work much harder as a result but i still made it career wise

>>83053664 (OP)
>People who didn't do well at school or dropped out, how's your life now?
Pretty good, I make a lot of money working for the railroad and I do very little work for it.
>Do you think grades matter?
No. Institutions are a poor way to learn stuff.

>>83053664 (OP)
Dropped out of high school and got my GED very easily
My mom catastrophized it and hammered it into my head that I was failing and I was a failure and if I didn't graduate my life would be forever ruined
I got a shitty grocery store job, moved out at 18, lived the wageslave life for 15 years, and now I'm mid-30's and living with my mom again after I became burnt out and refused to work anymore.
Now I'm NEETing and working on my creative hobbies, hope to be in a position to make money from it when my mom croaks.
All in all, dropping out was a big nothingburger and I realized my mom is actually kind of retarded and backwards so I strive to be the opposite of her

>>83053664 (OP)
Expelled in middle school, homeschooled through high school, but pretty good grades, now have a PhD and a $175k/yr income in my 30s

I'm working a shitty job, failing at online college, have very few friends as they have moved on and living with my parents. It's so over bros.

>>83053664 (OP)
I like to think it was the depression or possible adhd that made me so shit at school, to be honest it was probably just low iq. I went to a trade school for carpentry, something I'm too clumsy for. Now I'm working as an electrician which my dad set up for me. My parents are too poor to fund me were I to become a neet. I hate my job, being poor, and being retarded.
>>83054276
>Most everyone in the Trades is the ADD/ADHD kid from high school who couldn't sit still.
Really? Everyone around me might just be stupid like me, much meaner though

>>83053664 (OP)
its all rigged from the start desu
look at your family structure/foundation, your own background, and then look at your situation now
itll make sense

I was a bad student because I was fixated on books and video games instead of study. Lazy & stupid--a cursed combo. Graduated late, did a couple years of community college. Limped along in life not trying too hard.

I'm working as a web developer, and earn enough to live comfortably and save a decent amount. However, it should be noted that I am living in a shoebox of an apartment, and swore off relationships & friends, and do my best to dodge responsibilitiesand obligations. So my expenses are low.

>>83053664 (OP)
>how's your life now
It's alright (Have a GED for context)

>Do you think grades matter
Depends on your career path. I went into the military after I got my GED so my grades didn't mean shit.

Now that I'm out jobs look less at the GED and more at the vet status

>>83053664 (OP)
I'm the opposite and always performed well with top grades which is why I want to answer
>Do you think grades matter?
LOL no, the only thing that matters in life is how well you can talk, that's it.
If you can bullshit people then you're set for life.
If you're an awkward loser you're destined to be a NEET, minimum wage deadend wagie or simply homeless. Doesn't matter how much effort you put into anything, least of all education humiliation ritual.

>>83053664 (OP)
I didn't do well in high school (had a 1.7 GPA at any given time, had to take a bullshit "class" in the last semester of senior year so I'd graduate on-time...thanks President Bush), but excelled in university (got in thanks to the Post-9/11 GI Bill...again, thank you President Bush). I now work six days a week in a warehouse despite having two degrees.
>are grades important?
Absolutely, but what's more important is having the knowledge necessary to properly function in the so-called "adult world."

>>83053664 (OP)
>People who didn't do well at school or dropped out, how's your life now?
I dropped out of HS and was a NEET for 7 years. Then I got my GED, went to community college (got my AA) and then got into sales and retried at 35yo, so I'm back to being a NEET but now I have $$$ and my own place.
>Do you think grades matter?
Yeah I think they do, but I think raw IQ, drive and luck matter more.

>>83053664 (OP)
barely went grades 8-10
teachers thought i couldnt read (they didnt ask)
didnt do grade 11
hikki for years
tinkered with tech
got office job scanning paper
did their IT for 9yrs
decided to change career
mental state increased significantly
earn enough to buy a house
still no wife

>>83056495
>I always got good grades
You little kiss ass teachers pet. I bet your dumb retarded parents though they were preparing you for good future because you could vomit information like a diseased parrot. You need a good beating.

>>83056721
Don't worry AI is going to make sure you get fired. And taxes will make sure you lose that house (so an immigrant on welfare gets it).
And then you'll hang yourself in Burger King bathroom and a nigger will rob your corpse.

dropped out in 11th grade, went to get a GED and ended up doing well enough that they gave me a HS diploma anyways so i basically graduated earlier than everyone else. and i was offered a scholarship pathway thing but i declined because i fucking hate schooling(obviously). that was only a few years ago though and i still dont know what im doing, probably will do a trade or something but for now im making ok enough money to keep me green until i decide on a course of action

>>83054947
>>83055057
>>83056016
>>83056556
>>83056703
>>83056721
>I dropped out and then made a ton of money!
Yeah I'm sure you faggots aren't all lying mmmm hmmm. LMAO

>>83056770
Hey now, I never said I'm making a ton of money (I'm in the warehouse). But, I have almost unlimited access to Japanese food and snacks, so I guess that's a win.

>>83056556
>I now work six days a week in a warehouse
I collect stuff for jobs from warehouses and sometimes i wonder if the anons browse here. they're often a bit weird and we sperg out trying to communicate.
>>83056747
>Don't worry AI is going to make sure you get fired.
I changed careers into something that AI wont replace, not until they have very good robots that can basically replace humans. i'll probably be retired by then hopefully.
>>83056770
>ton of money!
just enough for a house and to live comfy. No doubt i got incredibly lucky twice with good bosses that value my weirdness.

>>83053664 (OP)
it's fairly better, all things considered
i skipped school a lot and ended up technically dropping out of high school, but i got a ged equivalent for my country and managed a full scholarship into comp sci, now working a government job in software development

>Do you think grades matter?
not in the sense people think they do
grades are there mostly to measure your degree of mastery over the class you're taking
so long as you pass, who the fuck cares? use it to challenge yourself i guess, aim for 80 or 90% so you really force yourself to learn and put in effort
but yeah

I'm the opposite case, I was a tad sheltered and almost almost the top of my graduating class, getting a free full ride via scholarships and grants to a good university - immediately falling apart once given any amount of freedom and stopped going to class before the end of the first year. After dropping out I spent the next 8 years doing as many drugs as possible while avoiding the law and barely holding down jobs, till eventually riding out the last 4 years of my 20s in the military once all my employment bridges had been burnt. Now I make $20/h and live at home again.

>>83053664 (OP)
I'm an autist who dropped out in Grade 11. I've gone full NEET and have no plan or aspirations in life, all I want to do is play video games while everything around me burns. The only thing that's given me any hope is Christianity. I'm too much of a pussy to get into the trades because I'm afraid to get zapped to death or lose fingers. So I have literally no options in life.

i am 24 yo jobless and live on welfare in moms basement

>>83053664 (OP)
>how's your life now?
Could not be worse.
>Do you think grades matter?
It depends, what matters is that you get whatever piece of paper says you're worth being paid a living wage. You used to be able to live a good life as a dropout but now you're pretty well doomed to breaking the law or living paycheck to paycheck, especially where I live because my government is trying their hardest to replace me with indians.

>>83053664 (OP)
my grades actually did matter but I'm special
also i didnt drop out

>didn't do well
I didn't do well because I thought highschool didn't matter/didn't plan on going to college at the time I graduated. I wanted to get into trades but due to the location of where I live + convenience, I have no choice but to do community college.
Going to do it next year though. Hopefully it won't all be for nothing.

>>83053664 (OP)
my grades don't matter

>>83057186
oh btw I did perfect

>>83053664 (OP)
i'm a dumb thirdie that barely graduated highschool with what would be a C- in the US.
atleast in my country grades matter a ton since to get to college most universities weight your grades from junior to senior year and that deducts or adds usually up to 20% of the final percentage that deems if you're worthy or not of entering college.

basically since i was a retard that did horribly in highschool because i was an anxiety riddled depressive fuckup that was more worried about getting a gf and finding friends instead of studying i have 20% less odds of getting into any college and it's one of the main reasons i still haven't pursued higher education at 22.

>>83057176
>Hopefully it won't all be for nothing.
Godspeed. It's going to be another rugpull.

>>83053664 (OP)
I graduated but I 'was sick' a lot. I attended maybe 1/4 of school days in year 7 (11-12yo) after getting legitmitely super sick with glandular fever at when the school year started, realistically I was psyically fine after a month but was too anxious to go so I milked the fuck out of it getting diagnosed with chronic fatigue. Luckily my teachers daughter went through a similar thing so I wasn't held back. I continued to have at least 1 or day off a week for the rest of school occasionally missing a whole week depending on a few factors, mostly if I was in classes with cunts or not/what my social group situation was like. The school never gave a shit as long as I had a signiture from a parent. I got straight C's only doing the bare minimum of work. My senior year was more degenerate activly skipping school, smoking weed and hanging out with my gf (who dropped out). It's long term isolation and depression developing into shame then agoraphobia which fucks people. If you can read, comprehend, write and do very basic math congratulations, you're educated as far as schooling is concerned. If you can follow cues to condition you for a workplace you're 'socialised' too. Really so long as you're not a hIkkimori and stay in the EET's you can find oppotunity.

>>83057339
What the fuck do you mean by that? Anon? You there?

i took 5 years to complete a 3 year degree

I'm unemployed

I was the valedictorian in high school but bombed bigly in college, still graduated. Do I get to post here?
About grades, they DO matter, but for only one thing: grad school.
Literally no other institution gives a shit

>>83053664 (OP)
Not a day passes where I wish I did things differently. But at least I didn't get into drugs, alcohol, gangs, or any of the really bad shit.
32, NEET (I did some courses, like forklift license, etc, but I can't find a fucking job), lost all friends, and I know I'm just a burden to my mom. I wanted to kill myself for years. At first I thought that if I didn't get a job by 30, I would do it, but I'm too much of a bitch, I guess. I also don't wanna do that to my mom, she's bipolar, I think, so I don't know what that would do to her.

Do grades matter? If you want to get into college, I guess. I think you should go to college only if you really want to do something that requires it, obviously.

I don't want to blame anyone but myself for how my life is, we can always do better, but I think part of what made it like this is where I live, which is a tourist trap of an island (I won't say where, but it's not USA). I don't really have the option to just jump in a bus and go to a different state and try my luck there, or whatever. Not like I would have the drive to do that, probably. I really should just kill myself.

>>83053664 (OP)
>dropout at 16
>learn programming for 12 hours a day until 18
>70k job shortly after 18th birthday
>now six figures at 21
im alone and sad and pathetic and i dont really have any friends my age tho

it's called being doomed

>>83055234
That might just be you anon but idk. Everyone (including myself) abuses one kind of stim or another (coffee for me) and run off of rage. It keeps us motivated and sharp.

good i guess. i did good in high school bad at community college. i tried changing it to computers but professor told me it was to late. just wanted to learn adobe stuff.

i work at amazon. i'm the reason your package goes to another state when your check your tracking.

>>83053664 (OP)
I couldn't concentrate in school and did poorly.
I can't concentrate on my work and am doing poorly.
I am 120 IQ though so while I do achieve, I do it very slowly and in fits and spurts. It's not a good life and I want adderall.