sounds like a cult

you got too many rules in life bro.

My GPA was a 1.8 and i failed out of school. So then i became a security gaurd for a while. Unbeknownst to me At one of the companies i was guarding i was tasked to gaurd some doors that led into the Global I.T. hiring department. One day i asked the guys what do you do back there and they said programmers. So i bought a learning C++ in 24 hour books to read at my desk as a gimick. The gimick was that i was so hard core i would learn C++ without a computer standing at a podium. 2 months later a lady came from behind the doors and said "i heard youre a programmer" .. long story short i ended up interviewing in my security gaurd outfit and got the job by answering some basic questions. I lied and said i was studying programming and i lied and told them my GPA was a 3.5. They hired me and a week in they said it was contigent upon getting verification of the GPA. but because i owed money ( and was kicked out of school ) the office told them they couldnt have the records and my hands were tied. They only found out 2 years later but by that time i had a fancy corporation on my resume. Never coded a line of C++ in my life. I paid off my house at 38 and only got my degree 15 years after the incident when a really high paying job finally required proof that i had actually graduated ( which i didnt.. still owed 3 credits ). so when the new job that paid 180k found out they threatened to rescind the offer but i quickly cooked up a take home independent course with one of my favorite professors. Basically all i had to do was setup Openstack with various software defined networks and they would give me a passing grade and my degree. So i did that and passed and got the job. That was the big one that help me pay off the house. i got fired from that job after a couple years but sat on the money since i dont buy cars or anything fancy like vacations. I just buy myself time to chill in my wifes garden. Shes cool with living low key life since we play sports and bike around together.. free stuff. Now im into robotics .. which i self taught with the time i bought myself. Recently i got a job that lasted 6 months doing A.I. cause i just picked it up for a couple weeks during the job interviews for the job itself. They found out i was just a newb but only after paying a boatload of money. Their project was a farce anyway.. not my fault. I was actually trying to do it and would have had they had more patience with me learning on the job. but who cares i got the money. im closer now to retirement but still around a decade off. lets see what i can cook up to get me there.

Hogwash. My GPA was a 1.8 and i failed out of school. So then i became a security gaurd for a while. Unbeknownst to me At one of the companies i was guarding i was tasked to gaurd some doors that led into the Global I.T. hiring department. One day i asked the guys what do you do back there and they said programmers. So i bought a learning C++ in 24 hour books to read at my desk as a gimick. The gimick was that i was so hard core i would learn C++ without a computer standing at a podium. 2 months later a lady came from behind the doors and said "i heard youre a programmer" .. long story short i ended up interviewing in my security gaurd outfit and got the job by answering some basic questions. I lied and said i was studying programming and i lied and told them my GPA was a 3.5. They hired me and a week in they said it was contigent upon getting verification of the GPA. but because i owed money ( and was kicked out of school ) the office told them they couldnt have the records and my hands were tied. They only found out 2 years later but by that time i had a fancy corporation on my resume. Never coded a line of C++ in my life. I paid off my house at 38 and only got my degree 15 years after the incident when a really high paying job finally required proof that i had actually graduated ( which i didnt.. still owed 3 credits ). so when the new job that paid 180k found out they threatened to rescind the offer but i quickly cooked up a take home independent course with one of my favorite professors. Basically all i had to do was setup Openstack with various software defined networks and they would give me a passing grade and my degree. So i did that and passed and got the job. That was the big one that help me pay off the house. i got fired from that job after a couple years but sat on the money since i dont buy cars or anything fancy like vacations. I just buy myself time to chill in my wifes garden. Shes cool with living low key life since we play sports and bike around together.. free stuff. Now im into robotics .. which i self taught with the time i bought myself. Recently i got a job that lasted 6 months doing A.I. cause i just picked it up for a couple weeks during the job interviews for the job itself. They found out i was just a newb but only after paying a boatload of money. Their project was a farce anyway.. not my fault. I was actually trying to do it and would have had they had more patience with me learning on the job. but who cares i got the money. im closer now to retirement but still around a decade off. lets see what i can cook up to get me there.

you wish that was his fate but i paid off my house at age 39. so ive been rent free for like 15 years. when i finally need those pills it wont be the inevitability that is a point of regret. because of course how can you regret something that is inevitable. no it will be you regretting making this statement while other people chiselled out their financial freedom in creative ways

the problem with being wealthy or middle class in america is self esteem. doesnt matter how good the health care or society is.. if your society self esteem is coming from the wrong place then you will feel like dirt no matter how much money you have. no matter how many doctors you have. youll still eat and eat to entertain yourself. especially the middle class because they like to work to feel good about themselves so they eat junk to shave off seconds of non work time.

cars are a hell of a lot more expensive than a bicycle which i have been using my whole life instead of a car.
queue all the lame excuses for not being able to live that life. zzzzzzz. zombie weak talk.
you did everything up until now because SOMEBODY ELSE TOLD YOU TO. thats why youre up to your eyeballs in debt.
i have never owned a car and havent owned a cell phone in 14 years. yet my house is paid off since i was 39 more than 10 years ago.
you guys make A WHOLE LOT OF excuses its quiet nauseating because yall do it so smug and self assured that its the only option.
ohhh what about the kids.. who will drive them to soccer practice... ohh the phone i need it for work. pfffffft. i work in I.T. and the bosses had a whole meeting that i should have a phone being that im a consultant. i stood firm and here i am still. i have plenty of communication mechanisms like email and wifi is ubiquitous. i can make calls with google voice. its not that im cheap im just not a smug slave like the rest of you. going around babbling your intellectual nonsense and infecting other people.. .thats why the USA is in bad shape emotionally and mentally. you got guys like you blabbering about nonsense convincing others they should do the same. your whole like is a copy cat of others. you had kids when you were supposed to.. you went to college and took on the debt when you were supposed to. you do everything as your told you are a just a rug mat to be walked over.

a rube goldberg machine for "A.I."

he needs a public reason to cash out that doesnt tank the market.

most of the people that die from covid have nothing to do with cytokin storm.. thats just a correlation not causation.
the main issue has more to do with the health of your gums and how you breath at night.. so called aspiration.

the people who fare the worst tend to have stomach and gut problems about 2 days before onset of symptoms.

the gums are a resevoir of the virus and it leaks into your gut and if you are feeling those gut pains before onset of symptoms well then that means the viral load is really high before your immune system picks up steam.

you can also breath in your own replicated virus so make sure to sleep with lots of ventilation if you test positive.

and rinse with mouthwash all the time, or apple cider vinegar. boil it and breath it in through your nose too.

and how much are you making now after that topnotch experience? and how far in debt are you?
and then ask yourself could you not have taught yourself those very same things by downloadng the syllabus from google and watching those pre-eminent lecturers recordings on youtube? read his book and wrote him a long email?
do you not think you could have become pre-eminent in your field if you had 4 years to yourself and all the course materials downloaded from the internet?
I used to do this thing called Biztalk. its just a now obsolete integration technology. i started learning it from a book in 2006. by 2008 i was a global MVP in the technology. Im an american from the hood.. broke as a joke and with just a 49 dollar bool and a laptop i became "pre-eminent". They sent me to an emergency project in belgium... some bank was up sh**ts creek because they needed to integrate another bank software written in Java with Biztalk witch is .NET ish. Apparently various crack teams from all over the world couldnt get it done and they gave me a shot.. They gave me a week i started working on it over the weekend had it done on Wednesday then hung out getting 200 euro lap dances paid by the company the rest of the way.

Same thing happened to me recently with a Genomics company. I spent a year learning Kubernetes and Docker inside out. Im talking learning it so deep that i could run IBM Blockchain in containers better than the IBM Blockchain cloud team. The Genomics company wanted me to make their code parrallel.. they wanted me to refactor their code.. i was like nahhh yahh in too deep.. why dont we keep the code and run it in parrallel using containers.

If i needed a pre-eminent professor every time i had to come through like this id still owe 3/4 of my house to the bank. instead my house was paid off in my late 30s. put that in your pipe and smoke it.

name a pre-eminent person in the field.
then name what they taught you
then ill go look on their linked in profile to see if they actually do what they teach
you can be pre-eminent by writing a weekly blog.

see thats how strong the mythology of college is. it got you putting words in my mouth i never said, makes you live off assumptions you never validate. to question the college myth is to question your own identity

also i never said i wasnt educated. i said i had an 8th grade education. so i can read, write and do arithmatic and basic algebra and geometry. i know enough history to be able to download Deep Neural Network models and apply them to video streams to get robots to identify objects and perform useful tasks.

i never said i was rich. i said i have zero debt and made 200k last year. not sure what you mean by "rich" if you mean fabulously wealthy there have been plenty. look up the name Andrew Carnegie or Cornelious Vanderbuilt. look up Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. I can go on. If by "rich you mean independently wealthy .. e.g. you get more income from not working than you have debts to pay. then there are several examples in your own town. If by "rich" you mean financially independent ... e.g. you dont have to work all the time and your debts are low.. it all depends on what you mean by rich but there are several examples of every type of rich that did it without of or in spite of a degree. I would posit that the degree keeps you from being rich more so from a mental perspective. Once you swallow the lies of the crutch of college well then youll swallow anything ;) ... the debt from college is inconsequential relative to the mindset that would even go to college in the first place.