r/CollegeDropouts

I am 18 , just got my 12th results . I am currently "refining" my video editing skills and later had planned to make money by freelancing.

But my parents are suggesting that I should go to college or just go with the traditional Indian paths - that the other people had done ( like ITI, go for some government vacancies, or stuff like that [ i don't know a lot about them ] ).

*PROBLEM here is that - I don't fully trust my own judgment yet...... I'm young, inexperienced, and still figuring out who I am........I sometimes wonder whether college or a job would help me grow as a person, improve my social skills, expose me to different people, and give me Connections, knowledge and experiences that I'm currently missing........But I still think that going to college is really a waste of time and money.

I Just want to do my own thing but have problems.....what should I do ??

I've dropped out of college in my second year. I've studied in a tier 2 college (in India) where the faculty don't know what they teach. I've joined the college to learn AIML but there the faculty don't know. Because of that college I'm not interested in AI anymore I want to do something in cyber security but I want to stay at home with my parents.I feel like I wasted lot of their money.

I hope someone can help me (guide me) study cyber security from my home..

Absolute boring question: What would you do if college wouldn't be an option?

So I passed out of class 12th in 2024 , i didn't wanted to go to any university however my typical Indian parents forced me to go into this college and it's very famous for its bad reputation , the college reminds me of how i failed, how miserable my life is, how my friend are having time of their life's but here I am juggling to make 1 fucking 1 friend at college ending up with no friends

My parents are typically toxic cuz sometimes they are supportive and sometimes they are dictator of my life so one day I decided to end this misery and to drop out of college, mind you I am now in my end of 2nd year at college doing btech in biomedical engineering

So I stopped going to college, prepared for cuet , aiming for bsc criminology nfsu

Now I am not sure if I will get or not and if makes me think If I will not then what??? The silence is deafening .

I can't stand my parents cuz every day they just taunt me with "you wasted our 2 lakh and your 2 years ,time is money" and blah blah

I also fear if I have to end up in that clg cuz I also don't want to ruin my years but I don't want to go back to that misery again.

I cried,am crying every day 25/8 man 369!

I’m a 20 year old female, about to be 21 and I’m about to enter my last semester of my nursing degree and have come to the realisation that I never want to be a nurse. I’ve never enjoyed nursing but I’ve always had this ‘stick it out‘ kind of mentality, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life after finishing high school and I just decided on doing nursing in uni because there were so many incentives to doing it at the time such as scholarships. I’ve just come off a 4 week placement that I actually hated so much and cried every single day thinking there is no way this is going to be my life. I’ve been so caught up in studying nursing for the past 2 and a half years that I haven’t had a moment to step back and think is this even what I want to do as a career. I’ve also always been disengaged in my classes and placements and I think it’s because I have always been suppressing the fact that I just can’t imagine myself being a nurse, I’ve never wanted to be a nurse but it feels stupid to drop out now as I literally have a few months left of the degree but I don’t see myself ever working as a nurse. I also literally fainted on the first day of my second placement and idk how I didn’t take that as a sign that I should not peruse this career. it’s also not like it’s something that I can just forget about and then go back to in a few years as ill need to work as a nurse to be able to keep my registration. im also meant to be applying for grad years now but I have been in constant states of panic because I genuinely do not want to do it. I always imagined a glamorous life for myself, or at least not a life where I clean up peoples shit and piss for a living. now I am also faced with that fact that I am almost 21 and have no clue what I want to do with my life, I’ll also add that I have completed half a bachelors in psychology which I might go back and finish next year but then again what can a psych degree even get you.

during the past month I’ve been on placement I have not had time to do ANYTHING due to the hours I’ve been working, my body is in so much pain and in the past 3 days since finishing my placement I’ve barely been able to get out of bed. Ive developed resentment towards the healthcare industry and I never want to work in healthcare. in all honestly I just want to get rich, I don’t have a passion for anything but now I feel so behind in life, idk how it’s gotten to this point as I always imagined I would have my life set up by this point or at least some idea of what I want to do but now I just feel so lost.

I'm in 2nd year rn about to finish it and I have decided to drop out after it can anyone who is familiar with the process tell me how it works? Preferably a senior or someone who has done it

I am a second year accounting and finance student and my second and third year are valued equally. I am going my end of year exams right now and I think I am working at a 50% ish grade. I need 70% next year to graduate with a 2:1. How possible is it to get a 70% in my final year and if it is very unlikely should i drop out. I don't think its worth having a 2:2 degree.

hi y’all im a muslim and im so lost idk what should i do next i lied to my parents that i graduated even tho im not there’s some pending courses but i can’t tell them my situation they’ll kill me idk what should i do next can i buy my degree is that possible??