I failed college before because I have a hard time focusing on things I'm not interested in. If I can't see the point in learning it beyond to pass an exam, I can't get motivated. My daughter has the same problem. I feel like a bit of a hypocrite telling her that she has to do things she doesn't want to sometimes, when I don't like doing them either!
The irony of failure #2 is that I was kicked out for failing Statistics 3 times, while I was busy managing the finances of a company with annual revenues exceeding €1m, assisting my clients with their complicated cross border financial transactions and overseeing my team of 3. I didn't need to know anything in that entire class to do my job, but without it I wasn't allowed to stay in college.
Sounds familiar. I enlisted in the Navy in order to pay for college. I came back from a Navy career in computers and enrolled in a couple of IT classes... and quickly discovered they were a giant waste of my time. I knew enough about the field to know that what they were covering had no value in the real world, so why would I bother spending my valuable time and money, just to get a useless piece of paper that said I knew it?
That's when I discovered the power of "or equivalent experience."
