/lit/ - Literature

I'm very fortunate in life but don't have a degree yet. One more class this summer gets me my associate's in English and then I'm transferring into a prestigious school for a bachelor's. I have passive income but a stipulation is that I must either be in school or have a job.
Wagie jobs are so shit that they're not worth the wear on your vehicle for commuting, or wear on your health in terms of medical bills. Trades would be working me six days a week and to maintain my body (exercise and stretch to not get fucked up bones/joints) would basically give me zero spare time. Working a whole year and saving $15k or so would barely pay for a car repair. It wouldn't be able to pay for any real professional work that I want done to my home.
I'm doing college because I've figured out that I need a high-paying job, not for the money, but for the respect that this society places on earning the money. If I don't feel respected I just resent people and at this point I don't need any of that.

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Also consider that the intellectual rot in college is deep. Colleges want to keep students in as long as possible for the money, and that means they have to pass most all of them. In a lot of 1st and 2nd year classes now (it was different ten years ago) a rubric looks like this:
>25% of your grade is attendance
>this means responding to a question every other class
>25% of your grade is quizzes or something
>this is just homework or stupid things in class and is basically graded like attendance, just do it
>25% of your grade are the three normal tests
>25% of your grade is the final
An F student of the 20th century is a C student today. All you have to do is show up every day, then make 50s on the tests. There might be some old professors at big universities with tenure that are brutal, but smalls colleges tend to hire freshly minted professors with standards that reflect the ADHD phone-augmented brain.