Why you should (or shouldn’t) drop out of college halfway through

With useful information, too, on why you should or shouldn’t start college.

Hello friends!

I have a very diverse academic background. In 2006 I graduated in psychology and during graduation I did scientific initiation at the faculty of Letters, studying the work of James Joyce. This initiation led me to a Masters in Literary Theory and Criticism of Culture. And while I was defending my dissertation, I was applying for a Ph.

I start by telling you this because I really like studying and I would study almost anything. For this reason, it would seem incongruous and strange that I had already gone through the situation that many are experiencing, that is, having doubts about dropping out of a degree or not. In fact, I dropped out of an undergraduate and a graduate degree. Which is why I believe I have a certain amount of “authority” to talk about faculties and dropping out.

After all, there are reasons and reasons to lock up or stop studying altogether. Let’s see.

Why You Should Drop Out of College

To talk about the reasons that would be reasonable for making the decision to drop out, one must first consider why someone would want to go to college in the first place. From my experience, I think we can sum it up in 3 points:

1) Want to study an area of ​​human knowledge

2) Want to work in a specific area in the job market

3) Have better remuneration opportunities

1) Want to study an area of ​​human knowledge

A while ago I found a notebook of mine from 5th grade. It was very funny to see an exercise that the teacher gave me. It was more or less like this. The school is_______ I replied boring. Until high school I didn’t change my opinion much, with the exception of one or another subject. If I could go into the future, while I was at school, and see that I still haven’t stopped studying, I simply wouldn’t believe it…

The first reason, then, is to study. The difference between high school and college is huge. Not only in name (from High School to Higher Education). We also finally have the opportunity to choose which let’s study. At least, if we choose well, we’ll like more than half of the subjects (hopefully).

So, those who are thinking of dropping out of college may be facing conflict based on this reason 1. I mean, the person did not find it in college which he would really like to know from the bottom of his heart and imagine what other faculty could come to fill this gap.

2) Want to work in a specific area in the job market

It’s an endless debate whether we should like what we study or if we should just focus on market prospects. The question of doing what you like or making money does not have a single answer. Some people won’t mind studying for another 4, 5, 6 years, things they’re not interested in, and then getting a job, while others will find it exhausting and can’t stand it.

But another aspect of the matter is that we can also like to study a field and not want to work. So, instead of going to college, we can study abroad and learn a lot from free courses and books.

For example, the degree I dropped falls under this reason for dropping out of college. I love studying administration (the course was public administration), but I have no interest in working as an administrator. So I no longer saw the point of spending 5 years studying just to have one more paper – the diploma.

In fact, I continue to study business, but as a hobby and I often buy books and courses to update myself. However, I have no interest in going to college. This also happened with my choice not to take history, philosophy, computer science, etc., when I was about to choose in the entrance exam.

3) Have better remuneration opportunities

The third reason is to have the degree to gain some benefit. For example, having a degree to try for a non-specific contest that requires graduation or getting salary increases, when the person has already been selected or is in a company that pays better those with more qualifications (although the job may remain identical).

reasons for giving up

In the same way that the reasons above are the main reasons for starting a college, we can take these reasons for dropping out:

1) I want to go to college to learn more about this aspect of human knowledge. I chose college X and it wasn’t quite what I thought. However, I think this other faculty, Y, will give me the knowledge I want.

2) I want to go to college to have a good job. Throughout the classes and having more contact with trained professionals, I realized that the area I’m investing in is saturated or simply doesn’t pay well. Since I don’t want to earn badly, I’m going to invest in another area, whose return on educational investment is more conducive to the salary level I want to earn.

3) The graduation or post-graduation I am doing will not imply higher salaries or bonuses in the job I have. (This happens when the course is very different from the acting, in some cases). Therefore, it is better to give up and move on to an area where re-titling will be more beneficial.

The postgraduate course I abandoned (in Clinical Psychology) was for this reason. Although having an extra degree is positive when it comes to publicizing your work in the office, I realized that my patients wouldn’t be as keen as one would suppose. So the return on investment would be very low. In addition, during the period I got a scholarship, in the Masters, and it was an exclusive choice, either one or the other. The ROI of the Master was also better for gaining more “authority”.

Conclusion

Practically every day I receive an email or comment from someone with questions about completing or not completing a degree. The most basic question we can ask, and which we must be sincere to answer is:

– Continuing graduation (or postgraduate) will be useful for______________________

If the answer is: for nothing… then it’s probably a good idea to give up and look elsewhere. If the answer is something useful, such as earning more or having a better job opportunity, other questions must be asked:

– Do I want to work in this area? (Or at least one of the many areas available in this profession)?

– Does the remuneration really have a good chance of increasing?

If the answer is negative for the 3 questions, if you don’t want to study, work and don’t think that your income will increase after graduation, it is almost certain that you should rethink your choice. Remembering that a higher education course is totally different from high school. We are no longer obliged to study. Therefore, we must use our free will to make a decision favorable to what we want to achieve in the long term.

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