I dropped out of college when I was twenty. This is not something that I like to admit to many people; the fact of the matter is that I had everything going for me – my parents were paying my way through school, I was well into my major classes, and was heading for a business degree. In the end it was my own lack of patience that brought my college days to an end. I just couldn’t imagine myself sitting through class after class for the next two years. And when a job opportunity came along that assured me that I didn’t need a degree and could jump right into what I wanted to do, I went for it.

With due respect, the job itself was actually pretty good and they were right – I didn’t need my degree to start where I started. But it also meant that my opportunities going forward were limited. When we’re young we so often fail to look at the bigger picture. What may seem like a good idea may very well be a good idea NOW but what happens next? What happened next for me was that I very quickly found myself hitting the ceiling in terms of how far I could go in this job. And my salary was peaking as well. I sacrificed school for a quick payoff but the payoff was running out. My friends that had stuck with school had struggled in the beginning – as we all do – but were now finding doors and financial opportunities open to them whereas I was realizing just how limited my decision had made my future options.

I decided right then and there to return to school in whatever way that I could make it work. Obviously I had a job and there was precious little time in which I could see myself making a drive back to campus and sitting through classes. Plus I just couldn’t imagine myself in a classroom with kids that were now as much as fifteen years my junior. That’s when a friend mentioned the Internet and the possibility of earning an online business degree.

The options were opening up for me. In the next post, my journey towards an online business degree begins.

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