I'm seriously considering dropping out of college

Hey this is gonna be kinda long but im in a situation were i can give you two perspectives which may help you with this one. So im married to my high school sweetheart and we had very different school outlooks i barely showed up in highschool and didnt take it seriously at all. I hit college and didnt get accepted anywere so i hit my community college for a semester started the second and couldnt stay awake so i dropped out. College was never for me and i was only going because my mom offered to pay my first two semester which was only like 5k. I refused to have any student loans. I spent the next two years working 60-80 hour weeks managing a restaurant at like 11 bucks an hour before i bought my first house at twenty. I rented out the other room for extra cash and worked at the restaurant about 2 more months before i quit and got into a low entry sales position. The great thing about sales is you just have to be a good talker you dont need an education, they give you that. I was decent and started making good money. I moved out of the first house bought a second and rented the first out before i started a side business. I scaled that on my days off and continued until it made enough for me to quit my day job about 2 years later. I work part time now and im 26 and partially retired through investments real estate and that business. My wife on the other hand went to college and finished her bachelors but really needed a masters to continue and do something in her field but she was in your situation and couldnt stand the idea of going back. So she dropped out job hopped between 10-15 an hour hating most of what she did for 2 years until she decided to open her own business as well which again takes time to build and you have to live frugally when you do but eventually she started making more money there then at her shitty jobs prior. The reason im telling you that is she graduated and was making less then me in sales by half. Now your degree generally pays a bit better but life shouldnt be absolutely miserable. Student loans suck so if you dont intend on finishing the sooner you stop the better because if youll have loans youll pay more the closer you get and dont finish. Now in all honesty because of how torn you are, id say like other people have said see if you can take a semester or two off. You can experience real life get a job and try different things. If you want to go back you can and if not then you can call it. What alot of people dont tell you is with the right effort in the right places in a year you can make more then if you got a degree. If you pick up a sales job during the day bartend at night you can save 3-5k in about 6 months in most situations start a pressure washing business or sorts iver the next six months and see if you like it or start something else. You could change and do a vocational degree and get paid for school and then after a couple years start your own and be making 6 figures after a couple years. The thing is you have options and the people pressing college dont ever bring up those options because they think you have to go to college. And maybe for them its true but you may be different. The best advice i ever got was life is hard you just have to pick your hard. Its hard quitting college and not having the degree but you can make it. Its hard finishing the degree but you can also make it. You just have to decide which hard you want to go through. I would also say if you can find someone in your life that is unbiased you can talk to like a mentor also makes a difference. I wish i had had one when i was younger i would have made alot less mistakes. Anyway i hope this helps and i wish you the best of luck!

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