I'm 31 years old , 3 times college dropout professional poker player. For last 8 years I've been traveling in SEA and playing poker almost daily, and was loving it until I wasn't. I lost passion for the game and seriously can't continue doing it professionally. I decided to quit. So here is the thing. I believe with all new technology and advancement in medicine we will be able to live for hundreds of years unless you get in car accident or something similar happens. I'm following all anti-aging researches and I'm extremely confident in this. When it's put like that, I think it worth to spend 4-5 years of your life to get well rounded, comprehensive education because it will support you for hundreds of years. On the other hand, most of jobs probably will be automated in near future, and those that are not automated will require coding skills. I definitely see myself coding brain of my slave robot. Basically, I'm thinking about going back to college, but have conflicting thoughts. With bit of research, I found about great books colleges in US, like St.John's college in Annapolis/Santa Fe, Thomas Aquinas college and etc. They look amazing for someone who wants to get comprehensive liberal arts education, but lacking for someone who wants to study computer science. I'm thinking how can I put them together. So there are few options:
1. Go to SJC or some other great books college, finish in 4 years and then study comp science. Will require 7-8 years.
2. Double major in liberal arts and computer science. I know UT Austin and Baylor have great books major so I could do double major at one of them. Or I could do study classics/literature/philosophy and computer science at some other place. I'm not sure If I will get accepted at UT Austin though, because my GPA at last university was around 1.2.
3. Something different? I need your thoughts. Do you know programs similar to great books program at SJC or plan II at UT Austin? Any input would be much appreciated.
Need advise on changing my life
Now, on top of that I need you advise on money things. I have 840k in savings, so I'm quite in a comfortable situation, but I don't have house, I don't have a car, so it's not a lot. Actually, my two younger brothers have higher net worth than me. So I'm thinking what should I do with that money. I've done my research on current market, and came to conclusion that there is a stock bubble, they are ridiculously overpriced and there is a real estate bubble, homes and land are also overpriced. With all the printing going on, I can't keep dollars obviously. So, for now I'm heavily invested in gold and I have little bit of silver and cryptos too. However, my brothers and my friends are advising me to get share in several small businesses that will bring me 40%-50% yearly ROI. They are saying that it's totally doable, however I'm not sure it is. And I don't know how much time I can dedicate for that. I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
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Bro... stop acting like a woman and go back to school if that's what you want to do.
Best writers are men. Also, your post doesn't help.
I really like your thread op because you're definitely different and looking ahead on the future but I'm unfortunately I gotta tell you, right now at this moment time we ain't getting no technology for aging or biological aging thing, Not here on earth. This already exist but only the most of the most rich on the galaxy are able to do that, our "aliens overlords", and you know how they do it? well.. They kill 100 humans to be able to get only one shot of this thing that will make them look 20 years younger, literally body restoration.. aah and there's another method but this other method will also kill you, because they can download your brain memory into a chip and put into another body but this method will only save your memory while your real you will die as it doesn't transfer the soul only the memory, so there's only one real method which you wont be able to afford even if you had Teleportation UFO.
you're not a writer
Hey OP, great thread....
Here's my advice:
I love to cum, I'm literally soooo obsessed!
Insert penis into vagina
Thats the purpose of life
I'm not a writer, but I said best writers are men to pinpoint that your post doesn't make sense.
>Best writers are men
And you're not one of them.
Kek.
Different dude, guy. Don't you know this board has poster ID?
>I definitely see myself coding brain of my slave robot
same buddy
Honestly with a 1.2 GPA you’d still even be fucked for SJC.
>useless lib arts major
Shove all your money in vanguard 60% stocks 40%bonds. 3 % safe withdrawal rate.
What are you gonna do with the comp sci degree? It's only useful to get a traditional white collar job. Otherwise save your money and spend a year self teaching yourself programming.
Then be self employed, you have your savings as a safety net
That's what I'm doing anyway
Trade shitcoins and stay in SEA with cheap rent until you make it. It's that easy. Start by buying ARPA and staking until you're 10x.
What is wrong with that lmao
You seem all over the place to me. What sticks out is the inability to finish college. Not so much for the degree but how it has affected the rest of your life. Here I'll give an example. You say you are looking at anti aging. But no one really says that but makeup companies. Most people say they are studying longevity research. I bet you don't even know what nano hydroxyapatite is.
You need to focus.
Is poker coaching or similar an option nowadays? Could be decent money spinner if you don't really want to play any more. I don't know how viable it is today as haven't really been into online poker for ages
Adding to this, follow your dreams though because Zig Forums won’t tell you that. Embrace the literary lifestyle and read the whole great books course list it that’s what you want to do. You may not be able to discuss it to the same degree but you will become erudite. As for coding, teach that shit to yourself. You can do it if you have discipline. Education is relative, knowledge is absolute.
I dropped out because I was dedicating all my time to poker. I was obsessed with poker, barely attending classes and almost never submitting my homework. I focused on poker for 8+ years, now I want to switch to different things.
“Advise” is the new “”loose”
Try advice and lose. If you say “I seen” instead of “I saw”, or “I’ve seen”, you’re a dumb fuck.
Do a philosophy degree that will get you well rounded and work on your problem solving/critical thinking skills. Lots of CEOs have philosophy degress.
Sorry, English is my 4th language.
lol that's some bad language prioritization
this is the best advise
You really did write a lot of words, user. Some would say too many. You have enough money to do literally anything, so like follow your heart and shit
lol, pathetic pseud
every single one of your opinions is pseud bs
There was a reason you rejected your studies and could not complete them.
You realized there was nothing to learn there and that it was very inefficient.
You didn't want to live the life of a wage slave.
You just realized this truth sooner than most of us here, but it doesn't change the fact that it won't change even if you go back.
It will end the same way if you don't have a higher goal to achieve.
You have a special mindset to be able to live from poker for such a long time.
This mindset is similar to the one of successful traders or entrepreneurs.
Try to see if there is something for you there which does not exchange your time for money, and if you can find a goal bigger than yourself.
>With all the printing going on, I can't keep dollars obviously. So, for now I'm heavily invested in gold and I have little bit of silver and cryptos too.
Lol. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the dumb money.
what makes you think you will not drop out again?
Studying for several years when you are above 30 is even harder cause your brain loses plasticity and cause you have 1000 thousand other things to think about
It you want to code just learn to code, there is no need for a course, internet is full of material
>lol, pathetic pseud
>every single one of your opinions is pseud bs
Take your meds and don't be bitter.
>what makes you think you will not drop out again?
>Studying for several years when you are above 30 is even harder cause your brain loses plasticity and cause you have 1000 thousand other things to think about
>It you want to code just learn to code, there is no need for a course, internet is full of material
Well, here is the story how it happened. It's a long story, but I will try to keep it as short as possible. First, I got full ride at one of the best universities in the world, but I fucked up in my second year and failed one of my classes. As a result I lost my scholarship. Couldn't afford it, didn't want to take loan, so I decided to drop out and continue at another college. I applied to several universities, got accepted to one at my home country and started studying there in January. Later in spring and summer other letters from universities started to roll in, I was accepted to couple of them. I wasn't satisfied with education at my university, so I dropped out and went to my 3rd university, this time in Russia. Became obsessed with poker, barely attended classes, never submitted my homework... it continued until it couldn't continue. Well, this time I won't drop out because I don't need scholarship, I have enough money to pay and I'm not obsessed with poker.