What did you guys do in High school

What did you guys do in HS? Did you start your own business? Have a job? Blow your parents money? In HS I started a couple businesses, but I wish I had paid more attention to my grades.I I started a web hosting with business with a friend, I handled the finances and marketing he did the technical stuff. Along with that I traded stocks on the side, sometimes in school. It was a lot of fun and it allowed me to pay for college and occasionally splurge. My first car ended up being a Porsche boxter that I pretty much totaled senior year. The greatest thing I gained form these experienced was a glimpse into how real world business is run.

 
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Parents forced me to get a job @ 10 hours a week. I liked being out of the house so much i was working 30-40 hour weeks soph-senior year. banked every penny of that which is when i started looking into investing which led to an interest in finance after i realized i could make my money produce more money while sitting at home

Looking back, I actually wish I had been forced to work in high school and college part-time. I think I would have developed a much better work ethic earlier....

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Reveille:
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Parents forced me to get a job @ 10 hours a week. I liked being out of the house so much i was working 30-40 hour weeks soph-senior year. banked every penny of that which is when i started looking into investing which led to an interest in finance after i realized i could make my money produce more money while sitting at home

Looking back, I actually wish I had been forced to work in high school and college part-time. I think I would have developed a much better work ethic earlier....

Im glad i did it. while everyone else with a part time job spent the money on a beater and the insurance to go with it i didnt spend any of it. having a big pile of cash (by a 18 year olds standards) going into college was definitely nice

 

I did what somebody planning on going to a community college for music would do...

If your dreams don't scare you, then they are not big enough. "There are two types of people in this world: People who say they pee in the shower, and dirty fucking liars."-Louis C.K.
 
firefighter:
I think it'd be interesting to see people post at the end what college they go to now, to see if there's a correlation between what they did in HS and where they got into college

a correlation between what people did in high school and what college they got into?

not buying it buddy....

If your dreams don't scare you, then they are not big enough. "There are two types of people in this world: People who say they pee in the shower, and dirty fucking liars."-Louis C.K.
 
scottj19x89:
firefighter:
I think it'd be interesting to see people post at the end what college they go to now, to see if there's a correlation between what they did in HS and where they got into college

a correlation between what people did in high school and what college they got into?

not buying it buddy....

I absolutely think there has to be a correlation. Obviously the people that had more fun didn't have as much time / interest in studying and doing well. That was my situation, and I accordingly didn't get into a really good school.

 

oh man HS really brought out the asshole entrepreneur in me hahaha.

I had access to all the latest PS2 and Dreamcast games for download, so I used to sell those games online and to my class mates. Also I figured out a way (without stealing) to get about 3-5 free products a day from a certain company that I can sell on ebay for about $30-$40 so I did that for a little while as well.

thank god i've since moved on to legit things!

 

Seriously, I was a hard working student and did well, but not at the point where I actually got into target schools. I applied to some, but got rejected. I ended up working smarter and better in college (did well academically, got good internships, wrote solid essays, etc.) and end up transferring to a target. In my experience, getting into a top school is about showing the adcoms what u can bring to the table and how that'll benefit the school at hand.

 

Worked my ass off, bought myself a BMW with my own money and graduated with honour's while spending the majority of my free time playing Counter-Strike or driving.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
 

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