Leaving College to Run a Business - The Right Choice

Many real world entrepreneurs knock academia pretty hard. Perhaps you have wondered why? Well, since I like to give academia a hard time for their PC and pettiness and often have no problem telling my business associates who flash their degrees around where to stick it - I might be able to enlighten you as to why there is a rift in the first place.

You see, you will have to excuse me, I left college my sophomore year, with an AA and an AS to run my business. I took 33 units at two different colleges to graduate early (yes another record for the notches in the belt) and ended up sacrificing part of my business to do it. I actually felt a little betrayed by the system for purporting their excellent benefits.

You see many of the classes well, I could have taught them. I was forced to take basically what I took in honors classes in HS all over again for pre-requisites and the teachers could not or would not answer my questions. I learned more in the library, there was no Internet yet available. I should have GED'ed out and went into my business full time my sophomore year in HS, what a waste of time. To this day I remember wasting all that time. Of course I did enjoy all the girls there and I suppose the socialization is relevant?

Now that I am retired early from the life of being an entrepreneur, I am often appalled at the incompetence of the Teachers and Professors I meet when giving talks at colleges. They are not good enough. The professors are only one issue, you see, I am not impressed with the graduates abilities and worried about their inability to think and innovate, create and adapt.

Yes there are some superstar MBA students, but lets get real. Let's call it the 5% rule. Same goes for the professors of course and about 5% of them are excellent true enough. But still, can't academia do better than this? How pathetic in my humble opinion. And this is how an entrepreneur sees academia, so now you understand my POV, na, nan na, nan na back at them.