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<blockquote data-quote="mast240" data-source="post: 7407988" data-attributes="member: 631695">yea, i hold your same distain for the &quot;must&quot; of higher education that america as a whole feels right now....when i was in high school ( YEARS AGO ) i started varsity basketball as a sophmore... went all state 3 years in a row, and had scouts looking at me for schools at the end of my junior year (given, they were from division 2 and 3 schools, but still)... then senior year... i quit the team (way too long of a story to go into) ... and all i heard was how i threw away my future, i wouldnt succeed in shit without ball, etc, etc... 10+ years later of busting my ***, and taking chances on myself that most would consider foolish... i now make a VERY comftorable living, where i&#039;m able to afford to provide my wife and i with the life we want (and also making more than the VAST majority of classmates, who went into massive debt, just to find out their degree doesnt do dick for them in the real world).moral of the story.... put yourself out there, and work hard enough, and you&#039;ll get what you want... just dont give up on it</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mast240, post: 7407988, member: 631695"] yea, i hold your same distain for the "must" of higher education that america as a whole feels right now.... when i was in high school ( YEARS AGO ) i started varsity basketball as a sophmore... went all state 3 years in a row, and had scouts looking at me for schools at the end of my junior year (given, they were from division 2 and 3 schools, but still)... then senior year... i quit the team (way too long of a story to go into) ... and all i heard was how i threw away my future, i wouldnt succeed in shi[B]t[/B] without ball, etc, etc... 10+ years later of busting my ***, and taking chances on myself that most would consider foolish... i now make a VERY comftorable living, where i'm able to afford to provide my wife and i with the life we want (and also making more than the VAST majority of classmates, who went into massive debt, just to find out their degree doesnt do dic[B]k[/B] for them in the real world). moral of the story.... put yourself out there, and work hard enough, and you'll get what you want... just dont give up on it [/QUOTE]

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