Success Without College

by Linda Lee

Book Overview

You don't have to go to college. That's very easy to say, and very hard to believe. The expectation of a college degree has become a traditional aspect of American parenting. A college diploma has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385496699
• ISBN13: 9780385496698
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Parent in angst over grad must read

College is not going anywhere. What do you do when your child graduates? You give them an ultimatum: two options, college or job, right? This book gave me peace and saved me from beating myself up over the fact that my child pursued option number two; a modeling career in California this fall. Creme rises to the top irregardless as shown through the examples of this book. The fact of the matter is people are born with different temperaments, abilities and ambitions. This book aides the exceptance. My daughter takes on line prerequisites with our local Florida community college from California (she feels as though she would be a total loser if she didn't due to societal programming). I'm apprehensive to pass this book along to her because I'm afraid she will not develope her innate intellectual nature at some point. That makes this book Rated Restricted to parents...first, then maybe your child, but in my case, not. Still, wonderful quick read and talented author.

A Dream Come True and Perfect for My Ex-Wife and Three Kids!

Linda Lee has done a very good thing. She's written a concise and much needed book on why it's not so important for kids to go to college anymore. She ignores the fact that colleges have gotten ridiculously simple with all the grade inflation and silly admission policies and instead focuses on how unambitious and industrious young people can thrive in today's environment without the shackles of a college diploma. This is a very important book and one I have already gift wrapped and placed in the care of the USPS as a special "present" for my second ex-wife (the supposed mother of my first three children). I've been sending the witch too much of my meager paychecks for the past ten years and she's already started yapping about the "college expenses". Thanks to Ms. Lee, I am very hopeful that instead of the ridiculously overpriced college tuition bills I can get by with this much less expensive "guide" to life without college. Who needs frat beer bashes and sorority panty parties? Not my kids. This book will do just fine. Very Highly Recommended. HHD.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

Knowledge is free, power is money, the feeling of power = priceless. This is for real people who live on the real earth. College pumps out little robots to go back and forth to work every day. I see it all the time. When I am driving around at 5PM once in a blue moon, I see the suites with the cell phone that serous look on their face driving the Honda in rush hour traffic. Well if that is what you want to do when you grow up and make $50,000 a year and a few small vacations per year be my guest. If you get lucky you may not get a divorce like 50% of Americans in the rat race cycle. It's just a cattle race. Id rather grow my enterprise a big as I can because its fun, I enjoy being a leader. This was a great book more people should read it because I do not want to anyone to tell me how lucky I was to be so successful with out college, I am sick of it. Luck has nothing to do with it. With the human body and a brain you should be able to do what ever you want without college. If I wanted to be an accountant ill just walk down the hall and ask one of my employees to teach me and ill give her a raise. This was a good book.

To the point

This book has impressed me with the facts presented. I'm a vocational guidance counselor and I have a hard time recruiting students to take one of our technical/vocational programs. Parents are determined from the day a child is born that that child will graduate from college with a four year degree. As the author so well puts it, very few kids are actually suited for college. This book will help me put together a presentation to my students' parents to help them make a well informed decision about their child's education. I can't say enough about how much I have enjoyed this book and how it will help me in my work.

MUST READ

A great book.I'll have to check it out from the library.Our society's in a heap of trouble if we think that getting a degree is the only way you can get a good paying job.We've become a society of "diplomaism".A society that defines success by that sheepskin that's given to students every year on campuses.Sheepskin that can break families financially,and that can cost over $100,000.Despite what society and the media say,how many of you folks reading this review know of someone(including yourself)who went through all of those loans and grants,and are barely making more than you are(if not less)even though you HAVE NO DEGREE? Don't get me wrong,money's nothing to me,but,colleges all across the nation teach this lie that if you have a degree,you'll be making mad cash,and if you don't,you'll live like a peasant.Let's remember,college is a business.A business that's getting around $200,000,000,000 yearly.It's all a marketing scheme.From the viewbooks,to the good words given about the schools from happy,perky students.A stat that disturbed me was that 66% of high school seniors will enter college this fall,and only 26% will graduate within SIX YEARS!I tried the college route this previous year.HATED IT.I dropped out after a couple of weeks,because I couldn't handle the schoolwork,but I was pressured by my family and society(the media,books,etc.)to come back,so I did come back in January 2000.I barely passed my American Government class,and dropped two other classes.As a matter of fact,I dropped out AGAIN in April of 2000,but my professor called,then pressured me to come back,and like a sucker,I had a guilt trip and came back,only to get a C(which I got only because I passed my final exam with great marks.I originally had a D+).I'm now going to go either into the travel business,or truck driving,to satisfy my passion for travel.And I won't have to worry about paying back thousands of dollars in loans,and feeling like I broke my family economically.Thank you Linda Lee.