Solid advice or schizophrenic nonsense?
>>24740112solid
>>24740112college is job training. Reading a book 5 times doesnt prepare you for any job.
>>24740136> college is job trainingunc…
>>24740112from my experience professors act like a bridge between the source text and the other scholarly comments made on it. now GPT can replace 90% of them.
if there's a man who never talks out of his ass that man is charls carroll
>>24740112Need it to do what?>>24740136>Welcome, Mr. Anonymous. What makes you qualified for this position with our company?>>I read this book five times.lol
>>24740112This only works if you instead read a bunch of obscure books by high iq authors nobody cares about and you yourself are a high iq schizo great man capable to forging your own path.
I don't know, I'm 33 soon and I'm starting to feel a bit of regret about jumping straight to the job world after high school. I tried keeping my brain fit, but the more time passes the more I long for a certain kind of structure/discipline that would've come like second nature if I applied in lit studies. Even more, I think about the social circles and interesting people I missed out on - the NPCs I work with always look at my sideways when I mention anything lit. (I hate writing in English goddamit)
Going to college these days is basically a scam if you did not get into an elite university whose reputation and alumni association will virtually guarantee you a good career afterward and many useful connections.You can still make college work for you going to a less prestigious school if you use it as a networking opportunity. To that end it doesn't really matter what you study at college. The learning you get at college might have some value to you, personally, but as somebody whose family is rich enough to have gone through school without going into debt I can safely say the education wasn't worth the cost. If I had a choice to do-over my college career I would have opted out and become an autodidact instead, saving my family tens of thousands of dollars in tuition and achieving a similar level of education. Nobody is impressed with my BA anyway, so if I paid almost 40,000 dollars for a diploma nobody respects why bother with the diploma?
>>24740136What if the book was called How To Pimp Out OP's Mom?
>>24740112Charls is legit schizo.. The anti college shit is so fucking gay though. If you want to go to college for gender studies or anything where the knowledge itself has no clear link to an actual job, don't go.If you want to become something that actually requires education.. an engineer, a doctor etc.. then.. yeah I don't want some guy who learnt surgery off of youtube to cut me up.
>>24740112I like Charls and he was some legitimate nuggets of wisdom now and then but he is an unironic flat earther
>>24740297>I don't want some guy who learnt surgery off of youtube to cut me up.Why not? If they have the raw talent (steady hand, strong stomach, calm under pressure) and all that was lacking was the knowledge of anatomy and procedure, what does it matter where they acquired it from?You simply don’t want to be youtube doctor’s FIRST patient, which is completely understandable.
>>24740112It's probably solid advice for the humanities but starts breaking down when you consider, like,>You don't need to go to college to become a brain surgeon; just read your favorite book five times
>>24740112it reminds me of the old /sci/ meme
>>24740272Yikes!
>>24740112>You don't need to go to college>t. Failed artist who only works entry level construction jobs because he isn't even good at manual labor
>>24740320Because some sort of institution would have to verify the skill of the person. This is what all these retards seem to forget is the function of a university primarily today since the knowledge is accessible elsewhere. But you can't just have people say they're this that and the other thing. You need to be able to prove it. You can go to uni, never attend a lecture and still get a degree so it isn't about where you acquire the knowledge. But passing the exam to prove you know what you're talking about is a different matter entirely.
I get the point that Charls is trying to make and it applies to a lot of young men who aren't academically inclined. But, if I hadn't gone to Uni I would've have likely remained a virgin with 2 friends and a dead-end job as a cleaner in my small town. Within 4 nights of going out with people from my accommodation I had lost my virginity, another week and I shagged 2 other girls, and a month after that I met my now girlfriend of 3 years, who I now live with in a flat of our own. I am personally academically inclined and love my subject (Ancient History & Philosophy) and am planning on both a Masters and PHD. University isn't for everyone but that doesn't mean it wasn't for me, and it doesn't mean it's not for you.
you need the MFA accreditation and social circle to be one of the NYT Chosen Ones. t. living in the 90's
>>24740358Okay let’s say Dr. Youtube performs 100 surgeries and only loses 3 patients. You’re still going to doubt a surgeon with a better than average at-bat because he wasn’t credentialed by another surgeon?
>>24740441Surgeons can fuck up and not necessarily kill you. A lot of malpractice suits happen because oops, we left a clamp in you when you sewed you back up.
>>24740446I’m not arguing that a surgeon (pro or gifted amateur) won’t fuck up, I’m arguing that if the unlicensed amateur is just as good or better than the credentialed pro, then why does the credential matter?
It is terrible advice. You have to go to college to get most jobs worth a shit. People without any credentials seem mad as fuck that you have to go to school to get credentials and can’t just half-ass it with a trip to the library on a Sunday afternoon. Are you going to let someone operate on you who didn’t go to med school but read The Alchemist 5 times?
>>24740456Do you want to be the first one to find out if Dr Youtube is as good a doctor as any other?
