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Education is meant for those who can appropriate fill employment-positions.

If you lose both your arms, all the education in the world won't get you hired as a fiddle-player.

Money-Wise, I'm Worse-Off than a College-Student ... living on the college-students' diet: not the 'Pre-Paid Meal-Plan'-students' diet, but rather with selections from the stereotypical "'Ramen noodles'-heavy" menu.

I'm a college-dropout ... and not one of those 'good' college-dropouts (Bill Gates) who drop-out because the business-world works for thempaying off any student-loans AND giving the person a nice money-base besides letting them live comfortably.

No; I'm a 'bad' college-dropout ... I just couldn't keep myself up to university-standards, and yet have no (non-secret) plan for the future. (I have to keep any plans 'secret' because they would seem "fruitless" if I attempted to describe them before they profited me.)

I hadn't expected to live off of my working-wage anyway: I had expected that I would be repaid for my life, butas I was only 14 at the time of the life-stealing accident, and my life was thus "worthless" to anyone but my legal-aged legal-guardiansI had to wait for my father (the then-"up-&-coming" lawyer) or my mother (the good Catholic girl, who thus knows that 'such things are the responsibility of the menfolk') to file the appropriate complaints.

But then my father fell apart (divorcing my mom, getting kicked out of the Oklahoma Bar and giving up on our species), and I was left with two options: a) Give up food for a few years (but for 'the kindness of friends, etc.'), half-assdly finish the degree and hope the middle-wages (with the insurance settlement) can pay off student-loans AND can sustain me long enough to profit well, or b) stop and be satisfied with what settlement-investments can bringafter the (now slightly-lower) student-loans are paid off.

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