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Originally Posted by The Big Chill
Not everybody knows what they want to do at 17. I went to university at 17 and failed miserably because I didn’t care. After that I decided I wanted to do some travelling so I worked 60-70 hours per week at crappy jobs to pay for trips. Both the working and travelling were great experiences for me and I went back to university with a lot more focus and maturity and did very well the second time around.
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Same here. Like many (most?) 17-year-olds, I didn't have a clue what I wanted to do with my life when I enrolled in university. So I pissed around, got drunk, skipped classes. Dropped out after two years. Complete waste of time.
But then I spent four years working on loading docks and moving furniture, with a backpacking trip to Europe in there. I grew up real quick (much more than I grew up in university), and learned that I sure didn't want to do manual labour for the rest of my life. When I went back to college at 23 I had a completely different attitude, and excelled at school.
So I actually think
too many people go straight to university at 17 and 18, just because it's what they're supposed to do. It's basically treated like an extension of high school. Except you run up 10s of thousands of dollars in expenses while you faff around.