Price of our hobby

From: Mike Cheponis <mac_at_Wireless.Com>
Date: Wed Jun 28 13:00:53 2000

Richard,

Wasn't there this nerdy guy who started at Harvard but dropped out after
a short while to start a company with one of his buddies, and is now the
richest man in the world?

-Mike Cheponis


On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> Will, my boy, It's absolutely for certain you'll regret that you're not in
> college for the rest of your life. That's true even if you eventually do go
> back and get a degree. The experience will be different and you've no way
> to reclaim it. Since you've little or no chance of getting most of these
> old machines you gather up and running, it's unlikely you'll learn much from
> them. Unless it's your goal eventually to become a scrap dealer, I'd say
> you're making what's probably the biggest and most far-reaching mistake you
> could possibly make.
>
> Employers will look at WHEN you graduated form high school, and WHEN you
> graduated from college, and if it's not the standard interval, they'll
> wonder why. They'll wonder why, and hire someone else about whom they have
> no questions to wonder about. They'll wonder whether you were in prison or
> in rehab. They'll wonder why you were different from the norm.
>
> Of course, I've just learned that my elder son isn't planning to return to
> Harvard next fall, (at least he learned enough while there to let my last
> check to him clear) and I don't know how well my younger son is doing at GA
> Tech. <sigh> I know my sons, both of them, to be sometime goof-offs.
> Perhaps that how people will view your resume as well. If I were in your
> place, I'd be doing whatever it takes to get on track to make that
> graduation from college happen at the "usual" time, no matter what it takes.
>
> Dick
Received on Wed Jun 28 2000 - 13:00:53 BST