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College has just been out of reach for me. At 15 I had to start working to help my family get by. It was hard not to feel contempt, because I love learning. I'm also more of a "flapping in the wind" person for sure, so back then I'd probably have done meh in college lol.
I try not to let it hamper my self education, but only so much I can do. Most of my peers went to college, and I feel like we have just very very different experiences in the world. I remember when my friends started at school, and they were from fairly well off families, and I thought it was funny that their biggest lessons were how to function as an adult, while I had been doing that for a time already. It was hard not to scoff at higher education which was an unhealthy defense mechanism on my part.
I appreciate all you people out there looking out for me and feeding me specialized bits of knowledge that I lack.
I feel like most people on lemmy are just way more educated than I am, and there is still some feelings I have that I don't like within my self. Like the need to maybe overcompensate, which is really dumb, but there is also a fair amount of "talking down to" that I have experienced from educated people I really consider my peers on an intellectual level.
I'm just rambling and my experience is obviously more nuanced than what I can formulate here.
We need to fix education, which is a sympton of the economic system itself imo. Not everyone can go to college, thats a design. There needs to be human sacrifices for the well being of many, and that's really sad. At the end of the day, I wouldn't trade my experience for anything. End rant.
There are tons of free accredited courses online. You can get certain degrees from Harvard and Yale, online for free. I don't want to link to Reddit, but there is a community over there that just archives the links to the courses.
It may take you a bit longer, but one course at a time at your own pace is an extremely easy way to accidentally get a degree.