Jan 07, 2007 20:20
i was sitting outside today, admiring the beautiful day, and i began thinking about pva. simply as a philosophy. that the reason why most kids go is to avoid conforming to this preconceived notion that only the study of academia would result in financial success. i specifically used "conforming" due to some/most(?) pva-er's attitudes of anti-establishment, anti-current pop culture. now the question is, since we started out on this road of artists, where is the point of selling out? is it by getting out of our respective art area? is it when we put away our craft? or is it even going to college in the first place? most graduate high school with the concept that it's either go to college or flip burgers for $12,000/year for the rest of your life. if you were 66% sure that you could essentially skip college, go into the work force with no debt, make a 6 figure income, and be able to keep more than 60% of your income, as opposed to most 9 to 5 workers... is the risk worth it? could you go through life telling doctors and lawyers, your financial peers, you didnt really do the whole college thing? i dont know how to handle this revelation. i dont know if i can stray from the comfort of conforming.