I genuinely enjoy my job more than college.
I started out making $10 an hour doing little but scanning documents and filing things away. I got a dollar raise when I began taking initiative and fixing other people's mistakes without being asked to do so, as well as an offer to give advice to the company's hired videographer on a video he made. I ended up so disgusted by his unprofessionalism and terrible work (which he charged $250 an hour for) that I recut his work myself and got it accepted for use at one of the largest trade shows in the country, being held in Vegas right now. And on top of $25 an hour for any filming work I do for them, I got another dollar raise (for $12 an hour for my day job) for dealing with a lot of repetitive bullshit and fixing more mistakes from other people, and taking initiative and doing other people's jobs for them when they flaked or made excuses to not work on it.
Compare that to college, where I was struggling through core classes I couldn't give two shits about that were made mandatory for reasons I still can't fathom, distracting me from the actual creative classes I was interested in majoring in, and being constantly reminded that I'd be a pathetic failure who flips burgers for a living (exactly why is working a service job a "failure" anyway?) if I didn't go through four years of college straight out of high school.
Go to college if you need it. But never think that you need it to live.
