You can pay a fee and get a certificate proving that you took a particular class and passed and transfer it over to a college of your choice. I haven't looked into it too much, you should check it out.
Looks like Antioch accepts it as credit, which wouldn't be a bad start, if I were willing to finish a degree at Antioch. Seems worth further consideration.
A degree really doesn't mean much these days. For instance, Bytemaster doesn't have a degree in cryptoequities and I guarantee you that he is doing much better now than he ever has in the past.
A degree is like permission to hire you for the good jobs, even if they're unskilled jobs and your degree is Sumerian Literature in the Acting World.
I'm never going to invent DPOS and IPO in a BOX.
I think you and everyone else, myself included is much better off learning new skills and using those skills to become a an entrepreneur, even if the only job you end up creating is for yourself.
I respect your ambition, but I just need to find something respectable, I wont be changing the world. I need a backup plan in case the huge risk I'm taking right now never pays off --that's why I'm freaking out right now. It doesn't even have to be college. I'm just aiming for 15-20 an hour. I was checking out places trying to be an optician apprentice the other day, for example, but they're all full up. I'm also stalking the postal service listings waiting for something to open up near me.
You should look into manufacturing jobs in your area. I'm not sure if all manufacturing jobs are like this but at the manufacturing job I worked at I'd work 3 days one week and 4 days the next week. Now, it was 12 hour shifts but even then I'd get several breaks throughout the shift and I was making $17.30 an hour. Also, I don't have a college degree just a high school diploma. Although I did go to college for a while but then stopped going because in my opinion a college degree doesn't really matter these days. Why? Well first let me make clear that I am not against learning or acquiring new skills. However, I am against believing that a college degree automatically earns you a great paying job, it may for some but I've seen too many people working in lower paying jobs despite the fact that they have a bachelors degree or something like that.
Our educational system worked well in a different time but it doesn't anymore and in my opinion you are more likely to go into large debt by believing that college is the only answer. It isn't. The memorization of information really isn't necessary because of the internet.
You have greater computational power in the palm of your hand with your smartphone and greater access to information than President Clinton did 20 years ago. I say this because you have access to tons of scientific literature through Google Scholar, you have access to all of human knowledge through wikipedia, you have access to the whole diy maker movement, access to tons of tutorials on a variety of subjects via youtube etc. In short you have the power to change the world thanks to the tools and access to information that are available to us today.
What this means in terms of economic opportunity is that despite what you see in the news or what people say about the way President Obama has steered the country we have greater opportunity today than previous generations ever did.
Smartpassiveincome.com is a great resource for making money online. Last I checked the guy was making over $80,000 a month via his blogs and podcasts. I'm not sure if that's something you'd be interested in, I thought I'd mention it though.
Anyways, if you really want to go to college and you live in the United States I recommend you look for manufacturing jobs as they tend to pay a little better and they will reimburse thousands of dollars a year to further your education. Anyways I wish you the best man!
Actually, I'd say that Germany is probably one of the most innovative and forward thinking societies in the world. Germany is way ahead of the United States in preparing for the tgird industrial revolution. They have a significant amount of electricity generated by renewables.
Heck I'm even considering moving to Germany now! Haha
Unfortunately, the less scientifically minded bible thumping folk in the United States would try to stop renewable energy progress. *sigh* such a shame they are too short sighted.
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