Ask HN: I'm a 19 year old high school dropout

Re:Ask HN: I'm a 19 year old high school dropout by cjbprime on Friday October 13, 2017 @09:51PM (#15470252)

Unpopular opinion: you'll probably find that people who went to college will tell you to take the job, not realizing how college helped them (honestly it sure seems like it wasn't that directly useful in retrospect), and people who dropped out of school will tell you to finish school first. How are those of us with degrees supposed to know what life would have been like if we'd never finished high school?

How many more months would it take to finish high school? Could the company not just wait until your last required day for your start date?

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Re:Ask HN: I'm a 19 year old high school dropout by HD134606c on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:13AM (#15476123)

Good point, I hadn't thought of it from that perspective. Almost like a "grass is greener on the other side" type phenomenon. I wonder if there's a name for this?

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Re:Ask HN: I'm a 19 year old high school dropout by jaredallard on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:08PM (#15470302)

Unfortunately it'd take 1.5 years to finish, or I would ask such a thing. I dropped out because I went to full high school but didn't get credit for two years of it and was not going to make it up. I was a bit reckless.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm a 19 year old high school dropout by cjbprime on Friday October 13, 2017 @11:49PM (#15470614)

Finishing high school at 21 certainly sounds strange. It sounds like you should take the job.. in part because you've already gone two years down this road of not finishing schooling.

If you can find a way to combine the job with a path towards college, seems like it'd be ideal.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm a 19 year old high school dropout by jaredallard on Friday October 13, 2017 @10:32PM (#15470366)

Clarifying that I didn't get credit because it wasn't adaptable with public school because it had a unschooling approach.

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