What to do When Someone Attacks Your College-less Career

Education matters. How you get educated does not.

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I didn’t go to college after I graduated from high school.

I never liked school, and the last thing I wanted to do was spend four more years in it. My dad — who loved that I wasn’t going to college — suggested I start a blog.

I wasn’t excited about the idea, but I also had no clue what else to do with my life, so I started it. It’s now been three years since I became a blogger and four months since I went all in on Medium.

I haven’t had any “real” success, but I don’t care about that.

I turn twenty-two in December, and lots of people I knew in high school are graduating from college soon, but I don’t care that I haven’t found huge success yet.

I’m young, and I have time.

Some people think it’s crazy that I’m trying to be a writer. Unsurprisingly, other people think it’s even more insane that I’m trying to be a writer without a college education.

To them, without getting a college degree, I’m not a real writer.

College isn’t the only way to receive an education