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Sepia · 36-40, F
A few were my closest friends, until now we still keep up.
robertsnj · 56-60, M
I voted 20 plus. I have about 2 dozen I am good friends with post college and I belong to one online alma mater group. I have a business degree. The most interesting ones include.
Joe: Graduated, found Jesus and became a real estate agent. Felt like he wasted his time in college if he was going to be a real estate agent and must have really felt uncomfortable as a Jesus freak in a college. He has a business degree
Tom: Graduated also with a business degree. Married a Latina who is bi-lingual. Started a landscaping company from scratch and clears well over 100k a year for the last 20 plus years straight. Again didn't need a degree but wildly successful. Really happy for him.
Carol graduated married a fella her age almost immediately after getting a liberal arts degree. He was old money as she became rich overnight. She started a boutique art gallery as a fun job and hasn't really worked after college. Not in the sense that most of us work.
2 of my friends who took a lot of languages moved to the middle east as expats in the Middle East. They both (who did not know each other) learned enough of the language and customs of Arabs to integrate, at least in a business sense in one of the most ethnocentric cultures in the world. They are both really well off. I am really close to one of them (both men) and say hi to the other.
One chased a girl he was crazy about to Europe married her, had two kids with her and they found they had nothing in common. He found a career in software project management makes a lot of money and remarried. He and I are really close to this day..
One of them who is now about 60 (started college later in life) got aged out of the business world about 5 years ago. To be fair he was in marketing and marketing as a job function is become more and more automated meaning we need less people doing those jobs.
One of the women I went to college went into pharma sales for a while but got overwhelmed with the hours and is sorta checked out business world with 2 kids and a husband. Pharma / med device reps often work 60 hour weeks though.
One of the guys who lived in my Freshman dorm, Matt, dropped out and became a house renovator and actually does pretty well. He was one of the smarter guys I knew when in school.
Cody degree'd in math and became a statistician after college. However that was 20 years ago and I am pretty sure his job is automated today.
Mike found Jesus while in school, couldn't keep up with the academic side of things--was probably to be fair the least smartest guy in met in college and became a taxi drive (before Uber existed may not be dong that now).
There are others but I don't want to make this too long.
Joe: Graduated, found Jesus and became a real estate agent. Felt like he wasted his time in college if he was going to be a real estate agent and must have really felt uncomfortable as a Jesus freak in a college. He has a business degree
Tom: Graduated also with a business degree. Married a Latina who is bi-lingual. Started a landscaping company from scratch and clears well over 100k a year for the last 20 plus years straight. Again didn't need a degree but wildly successful. Really happy for him.
Carol graduated married a fella her age almost immediately after getting a liberal arts degree. He was old money as she became rich overnight. She started a boutique art gallery as a fun job and hasn't really worked after college. Not in the sense that most of us work.
2 of my friends who took a lot of languages moved to the middle east as expats in the Middle East. They both (who did not know each other) learned enough of the language and customs of Arabs to integrate, at least in a business sense in one of the most ethnocentric cultures in the world. They are both really well off. I am really close to one of them (both men) and say hi to the other.
One chased a girl he was crazy about to Europe married her, had two kids with her and they found they had nothing in common. He found a career in software project management makes a lot of money and remarried. He and I are really close to this day..
One of them who is now about 60 (started college later in life) got aged out of the business world about 5 years ago. To be fair he was in marketing and marketing as a job function is become more and more automated meaning we need less people doing those jobs.
One of the women I went to college went into pharma sales for a while but got overwhelmed with the hours and is sorta checked out business world with 2 kids and a husband. Pharma / med device reps often work 60 hour weeks though.
One of the guys who lived in my Freshman dorm, Matt, dropped out and became a house renovator and actually does pretty well. He was one of the smarter guys I knew when in school.
Cody degree'd in math and became a statistician after college. However that was 20 years ago and I am pretty sure his job is automated today.
Mike found Jesus while in school, couldn't keep up with the academic side of things--was probably to be fair the least smartest guy in met in college and became a taxi drive (before Uber existed may not be dong that now).
There are others but I don't want to make this too long.