People who never went to college

College… the great place we all are right now. The place we get to spend the majority of our time, money and stress during the most important years of our lives. Our young, exciting youth stuck in classrooms on warm spring and summer day. Watching our skin get paler and paler as we watch snapchats of our friends at the beach while we continue to be distracted from our algebra equations that will benefit your degree in journalism. People stress college a lot, and I mean A LOT. I don't understand why. The best and most exciting people I have ever meet are the ones who never went to college. Although many looked down on them and think bad of them, they never stressed an unnecessary thing in their life. They live everyday with their million-dollar smile and like theirs no tomorrow.

Being a student at community college gives me the benefit of being able to work while I attend school. I currently work at a Wawa. I pump gas; therefore, I am very interacting with the public. I absolutely love it. Seeing all the different personality and characteristics of the people is so fascinating. I have a very good memory. Certain people usually stand out to me. Through my many interactions I can remember since I first started working there, the one thing I realized was the college educated adults are boring! When they come in for their gas, they all have the same boring look of miserable dullness on their face. The same monotone voice, and no interest in anything at all. They have the typical polo shirt with the kakis and the irrelevant coffee cup from the college they graduated from 20 somewhat years ago. The people who come in with no college education that talk to me about their path in life, they are the ones to remember. One of the best was a lady from Philadelphia came in on a Thursday night. She was talking to me about what I am doing for school and she said she never went to school after high school. I later asked what brought her to New Jersey from Pennsylvania. She goes to say she was on her way home from a Bill Burr show. I got the biggest smile on my face. Bill Burr is my favorite comedian. I listen to him any time I am having a bad day and instantly he makes me laugh. That one women gave me more memories than over 1000 people I have gave gas to that where college educated. Simply because they were boring and probably thought less of me because of my job position. People like that woman are the gifts that turn a bad day around.

Everyone has a different size family. luckily, I have a family that is very large. I have over 400 people in my family. My dad's side differs a lot from my mom's side. My dads comes from a college educated, all working in the corporate job field type of people. My mom's side are the type who never went to college, and made it all themselves with their independent business or job choices. The one thing I can say about my family is, I definitely like my Moms side more. They are more fun, loud, exciting, and have a better overall time and fun to be around. My grandparents used to have annual block parties or backyard barbeques every summer. The whole family would come. We would all celebrate, play a lot of games, everyone would drink, laugh, hug each other, talk about funny past events. Even our funny uncle who we called Joe king would try and sing karaoke and make a fool of himself, but he had the biggest smile on his face. We all had a blast. No one ever cared about what anyone did for a living and money was never a concern. It can relate very closely to the book Love or Money, by Rowena Akinyemi the amazing British writer who has been writing for over 20 plus years and developing ELT fiction for 10 plus years in many of her series she has out said in her book, Roger! I don't need a nurse' you know! I work in the garden every day; I feel happy there.' Molly stood up. 'I know you all want my money. You come here for a free dinner, you don't want to see me. You don't love me. You want my house, and my money. Well, you can all wait. Nobody is getting more money from me' not before I die!' This is very relatable to my uncle Joe. Enjoying life without needed money or anything else. Just himself and the people around him. what comes from that is us all enjoying what we had and the company of each other. That's what mattered most.

The opposite side now is my Dads side. They are a complete 180 compared to my mom's side of the family. They all come from high educations and present themselves with high class. They are very smart people, but they are boring… The dinner table discussions consist of current events, politics, laws, math problems, equations, tricky word problems, and using your inside voice because you're eating! It is like you're eating dinner at the white house. There are very strict rules in place, and if you miss follow one of them, they all turn to you and stare like you are crazy. You must act 1000% polite, they only drink Perrier sparkling water, and you must take your shoes off upon entering the house. Elyssa Kirkham the great writer for go banking rates and who also writes fabulous pieces for international magazines rote about degree and the proper training being key for good pay and a happy life. This can be very misleading. Just because you are getting paid well, doesn't mean you have the same things money can't buy. These include a family, laughs, love and affection, and the time back you spent chasing the richness. This concept can be applied to the many people I know who are highly educated and are wealthy. Another example is taken from a great passage by Sendhil Mulliainathan, the MIT graduate and Harvard behavioral expert wrote a great excerpt stating, during these months, richer children benefit from summer programs and books around the house. This goes to show the children would rather spend their young childhood lives inside doing work while having a vacation from school, instead of at the beach or out with friends. This is just like the people that would rather work late hours then eat dinner with their families. Money and success is the main concept. Not a good time. Just like my dad's side. They are still my family and I love them no matter what, but the way they present themselves and the social connection is lost with the need to retain such a perfect image just because you have an education and a good job.

Athletes have big personalities and are very lively people. A lot of these people don't even have college degrees, let alone high school diplomas. Some people throughout sports that never went to college are Sean Avery, and Floyd Mayweather. Sean Avery is a household name on any street in New York City. He played for the New York Rangers from 2007 to 2012. He was known as one of the biggest jackasses ever in the NHL. His style of play was very different and never seen before. He would use tactics that no one thought of, always got into fights, loved the good old rivalry, and never shied away from the comments in the media. He went as far as to say the man who took his ex-girlfriend was playing with his sloppy seconds. The man was another player in the league. Fans loved watching him play, weather he was scoring goals, or causing fights. Lighting up the sellout crowds at Madison Square Garden of close to 20,000 people almost every night for almost five years. Doing all this without a degree.

Floyd Mayweather is another athlete who never went to college. Floyd is one of the best boxers in the history of boxing. He is 50-0. He provides great entertainment. We all saw in the Mayweather vs McGregor hype for the match this past month. He was a fan favorite in his prior days making cameo appearances on WWE as well. Floyd is a millionaire and established all this credibility to his name without any college experience or degree at all.

The greatest personalities come from the people who don't stress away the time in school and trying to get the best grades. They come from the people who just do whatever it is they do and get what needs to be done and are always satisfied with whatever they have in the end. Yes, people do hold each other to a high standard. They expect college to shape you into someone who's mature, well rounded, and can perform well in the real world. News flash, college isn't necessary to make that happen. Just having the right mindset can bring you that. My uncle joe I spoke about before, he is 73 years old. He lives everyday stress free, never attended college, didn't even finish high school completely. He has a full head of hair still, always the biggest smile on his face, in the happiest and most joyful mod no matter where I see him. My other uncle joe on my dad's side now, he is premature bald because of the stress of his job. He attended a lot of school to become a monkey scientist. He is only ten years younger than my other uncle Joe. College is tricky. They pile so much information into your head at once, you try to retain and store it all, you end up losing room to remember who your true self is. That's how all these same looking, dopey, boring people came about. They lost the space in their head that allowed for their personality and creativity. All they know is book smart and equations. They have been brainwashed by the pressure and need for college and that it will make them a better person. College is a choice, not a necessity in this world. Less is always more. Don't downgrade someone based off a piece of paper. Many people do perfectly fine without college. Some of the best people out there don't have a degree. it doesn't take needing a degree to be a fun, memorable, and great overall person to be around.