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Safe and well, just. I managed to get left behind by the coach in the middle of nowhere at a motorway service station, but apart from that I’m just dandy. I never knew coming home from uni could be such an adventure.
The term has ended, and Christmas is upon me. I finally got to unpack my Xbox 360 that I won in a competition a month ago. Luck has been upon me it seems ever since I left school 2 years ago.
Lately I’ve been in the mood for making myself a rich man, using the web design skills that have taken me 7 or so years of learning in my own time to acquire. I wonder if I really need to continue learning at uni, whether I should just jack it all in and concentrate on making it happen.
The stories of some of the richest men in recent history have inspired me, for better or worse…
- Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard University to pursue software development working out of a garage.
- Steve Jobs, founder of Apple computer and the man behind the iPod, dropped out of college after one semester.
- Shawn Fanning quit college at 19 to create a music download site called Napster. A year later it was worth £42 million.
Other dropouts of note include, but are not limited to:
- Richard Branson
- Michael Dell
- Henry Ford
I’ve got to wonder, am I doing the right thing?
Posted on December 18th, 2006 in My Life with 3 Comments
3 Comments
Ethan Watrall on February 11th, 2007
Playing the devil’s advocate, I would ask you how many university dropouts actually succeeded? I’m not arguing that you have to have a university degree to do great things, quite the contrary. However, listing 6 wildly successful university dropouts…as opposed to listing the thousands upon thousands who dropped out and never made anything of their lives…is probably not the nest argument. That having been said, best of luck.
duane on February 12th, 2007
I think his name is actually Shawn Fanning; but Napster was a GREAT idea! I wish I could come up with something like that myself!! Good luck!
aytug akdogan ödüllü 1. seo yarışması ve yurtta barış dünyada barış on June 21st, 2008
Life is short to think about it.Inspire from sample people and do better than them.
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