Quit college for cycling?

I'd rather employ a retarded gibbon with a qualification than one without...

I've no idea what he would do around the office, maybe just throw shit at my boss?

Not read all of this thread but my advice is do something you love. A passion for something will drive you forward.

I know a few people who work in the bike industry - both brand and mechanic side.
You considered that?

And to the people who are confused at 'cycling on a budget', I am currently riding a bike with a worn headset, a wobbly bottom bracket, toe straps when I really want clipless,

My first job was on a mushroom farm. I got 70p/hour. Sheeez. And just look at me now!
Anyway, I have a set of TIME clipless pedals you can have.
PM if interested and i'll post 'em on to ya.

I'm tempted to make some "witty" throwaway comment about grooming but that's just too nice a gesture to spoil.

2nd dibs pedals.

Finish the course.

Enjoy your cycling.

Use your cycling to clear your head over what you want to do next, after you have finished the course.

Part-finished anythings are always messy: this applies to relationships, cakes, crumbles and courses.

'nuff said.

Network is the most important "nowadays" - if your mushroom-cycling leaves you forever-alone-guy, you and your plan is a Game Over.

stay at college. get the qualifications. work part time to fund your life and cycling.

What's the issue with that? In the past I've employed people who're qualified up to the nines but have as much common sense as a retarded gibbon. Qualifications are all well and good (even qualifications in the field that they people want to work in) but real-life experience is equally as important.

Naturally.

first you dismiss qualifications straight off, and then now you state that they're equal with experience? anyway, my exclamation was more that you would completely disregard something so significant so indiscriminately and that i feel sorry for whoever your applicants might be, if that were the case. i agree that qualifications don't automatically bestow common sense/general intelligence etc, but your approach seems a bit extreme.

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Just out of interest, what were you going to say?

It was a couple of quotes about advice.

My 2p...
Finish the course and wear sunscreen

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My first job was on a mushroom farm. I got 70p/hour. Sheeez. And just look at me now!
Anyway, I have a set of TIME clipless pedals you can have.
PM if interested and i'll post 'em on to ya.

Thanks very much for the offer, but i would feel rude taking them, i simply cant.
i am very grateful though! :)

I'm 22 and I've just gone back to college, not even Uni!

It's taken me four years of shit jobs and one year of uni doing something I hated to finally realise I will be forever miserable if I don't do something I enjoy. Cycling might be what you enjoy but sacking off college for it is a bad idea, being poor is horrible. Trust me.

This thread has made me remember that the wages for my first job were (I think) less than a quid per hour- I recall it as being £0.90 per hour, and the promise of it going to £1.30 when I turned 17.

A little later on in life I lived for 9 months on £16 per week, although housing and food were part of the job- it sucked.

Money may be the root of all evil, etc etc, but it makes life easier.

Thanks very much for the offer, but i would feel rude taking them, i simply cant.
i am very grateful though! :)

In some cultures turning down such a kind offer is not seen as polite but rude, take them, if shootthebreeze had a need for them he wouldn't have offered them to you.

I remember having high ideals (no offence intended) and being happy at 'getting by' and 'doing without' but to be honest it took me a few years of being piss poor to realise it was all a load of idealised bullshit.

Anyway, if you need the pedals frankly you'd be daft not to take stb up on his kind offer :)

^^^ and ^^ Yep, being poor is rubbish, even just having £200 a month to live on (after paying rent) is luxury by comparison. But being poor really helped me to live frugally naturally, so even though I have a lot more money now I still only buy what I need and will use, and still usually have money left over at the end of the month. It's nice to be able to buy a Pret sandwich or a burrito if I'm hungry, and not worry about how much it is.

I'm 22, full time student and working 5 nights a week at a restaurant, rent my own house with may partner which we thinkin of buying in the next 6 months, just came back from venice(very expensive) all with hard work tho, don't get any kind of support and not much time to cycle however I know everything will be worth it once I graduate next year and actually work doing what I like eater than serving people food, also the time will come when I get that job that will pay for a nice bike, frames, parts and everything you want/need/dontneedbutwant!

I fucked up 2 years, 1 at college for personal reasons 1 at uni for stupids reasons! I wish I could go back to that time cos by now I'll e graduated working in a nice office or from home earning good dorrah. My advice stay at college, finish your course which we always will need an electrician, you could probably make more money than me that I'm doing web design.

In some cultures turning down such a kind offer is not seen as polite but rude, take them, if shootthebreeze had a need for them he wouldn't have offered them to you.

I remember having high ideals (no offence intended) and being happy at 'getting by' and 'doing without' but to be honest it took me a few years of being piss poor to realise it was all a load of idealised bullshit.

Anyway, if you need the pedals frankly you'd be daft not to take stb up on his kind offer :)

He could sell them and make some money :)
Im using a friends pedals and shoes for the time being anyway, until i can get hold of some! :D

oi! What are you doing on here!? It's Sunday, no college, get out on your bike!

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It's nice to be able to buy a Pret sandwich or a burrito if I'm hungry, and not worry about how much it is.

I feel the same way about truffles and Dom.

He could sell them and make some money :)
Im using a friends pedals and shoes for the time being anyway, until i can get hold of some! :D

Yes he could but if he wanted to do that he wouldn't have offered them to you ;)

oi! What are you doing on here!? It's Sunday, no college, get out on your bike!

i was just about to leave and meet the club when i posted this, ended up doing a 53 mile ride, only averaging at around 17mph, but it was hilly/windy as hell D: