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Off The Record: Do You Regret Getting Your Degree? (ft. Geo Kwan)

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0:00 because if time is of the essence literally especially EMT every second that time is of the essence every second wasted I'm like this is 10 minutes gone like this my child is about to die [Music] our last uh last OTR and then one more article after this okay stop touching three two three two one oh that is so ████ up oh what do you mean what'd you say about me you said about your ears no nothing happened so the guy was ████ up here is good here I heard it you know what's crazy I didn't even say it I just I heard your thoughts I said A blank sentence with no words and you heard it yeah that's amazing just don't talk to me during this OTR okay

0:50 don't ask me anything all right three two whatever we'll just leave it in like that here's a question that gets asked a lot through the IG the sometimes the Discord but mainly through just like regular people hitting up the JK IG is how does everybody feel about college like what are your thoughts on College how necessary is it do you advice hottestate goes first go college no no I think we talked about it in an earlier video yeah your like college experience uh I had a really bratty s█████ attitude about it because I thought I was wasting time you weren't learning anything new as a Kinesiology major not stuff once again the lens of what I was looking at was very like entitled and very like what do they really say like because some of the stuff you just feel like dude you're

1:41 just making me jump through hoops like that aren't gonna matter like you think like that you think like oh this is how I thought and I think it's not really that uncommon to think like that when you're going to school um I just felt like there was no point I was just wasting time I really wanted to be working I didn't want to be here so um for sure there were some classes that I thought were ████ maybe because of the professors maybe not because of the subject matter but just how they would teach it and they just felt like they were going through the motions you know but until I found like professors that I really liked that were passionate about the subject that made therefore me passionate about it yeah I was like all right cool I think it wasn't until I felt like I got challenged where I felt like okay cool I'm into this I want to work hard and I want to like do well in this aspect but once I left College I

2:32 felt like I was glad I did it but the farther I got on in my life I realized like oh it was actually very valuable for me to go to school and I got the opportunity that a lot of kids don't get to be able to just be supported through learning and helping my craft later on in life too but during the time I definitely didn't think it was worth it I definitely thought I was a waste of time and I think it that's an argument to be made depending on what you want to do in your life um but I think it like I said earlier I have way more positive experiences from it than I do negative so as a um in fighting or in training or in um even in like weight loss coaching do you feel like some Kinesiology knowledge that you gained in college applies I think it helped out a lot cool definitely that's something that a lot

3:22 not a lot of people can say about there but at the time I didn't feel that way like I was just just being stupid though I was being a young you know ignorant kid but not much has changed thank you I disrespected me just for no reason yeah right that's good and you're not gonna say anything just stab her up dude if if you say another thing about me that's not really me I mean that's not really nice it's nervous now with all the spots wait a second enjoying it I'm gonna walk into traffic and I'm gonna blame it on you I hope you do I can't wait to get blamed for that so let's say um what would your advice be to a person that's debating like in

4:13 in a very short sentence like if someone says very short very short uh if he's like should I stay in college or just follow my passions elevator pitch now go I don't believe in short pictures dude I don't believe in it because I think context really matters like whether it's coaching or whoever you're talking to yeah you got to meet people where they're at yeah so you have to kind of understand what their end goal is or if they don't know what their what like a per like I think most people you talk to when it comes to school they don't know what they want to do right because they haven't tried enough things because I used to think like okay once you do this one thing that'll be what you do forever kind of like that's what you think in your head especially when you're young it's also hard when you haven't seen the careers yeah like I didn't know ████ about any career I tried an EMT class yeah I was

5:04 like I thought I was gonna be EMT I did that for like a couple weeks and I was like dude I don't think I have the stomach for I don't think I could do this like you as an EMT would be pretty interesting yeah dude I couldn't I was like I'm out dude Did we tell you about our stuttering EMT was it me no what happened EMT ████ sidetracked but so uh taika had his second seizure okay at this point um between the first seizure and the seizure there was six months so we didn't think he was getting seizures we thought at this the second time around we thought he was choking on something so he was blue in the face um yeah and I had to call 9-1-1 so the EMT comes and um at this point we're like what the ████ are we gonna need to give a CPR we're trying to sort everything out the ████ ENT that's giving us all the information is stuttering and in any other how bad

5:54 really bad really ████ bad like a diagnosis this guy has a stutter ring like that like if you just can't get it out and I'm going what the ████ is going on with my kid is he like dying like can we get it like what is happening and he's stuttering and normally I don't care because I mean it's a stutter it's not a big deal but in a case of an emergency like that I'm like bro he cannot be the one because if time is of the essence literally especially EMT every second that time is of the essence every second wasted I'm like this is 10 minutes gone like this my child is about to die so that's yeah it's the kind he stutters so bad he's the kind that like blinks every syllable like yeah and I was like what the ████ yeah seizure like that oh and normally again

6:45 just tell them you're like we know he has a seizure but what oh no we didn't know oh at the time oh sorry no he wasn't breathing or responding and this guy's trying to explain it to me and I'm going ████ ████ can someone else pieces ████ time what the ████ is going on and I was like literally talking that fast anyway sorry but I like your answer just if you have a stuttering problem that's yeah maybe not that but like I had to try a different I had to work I'd volunteer at the hospital for a little bit I realized I was like I don't think I want to work at a hospital like this is really sad like delivering patience across to you know different wings and then like bringing stuff to like the NICU like it was it was like tough dude you see all these kids in like G tubes and all this kind of stuff you're like oh I do not want to be around because like you would just feel this energy

7:35 that I was like I don't think I want to be around this too consistently but until I landed where I was where I was like okay this is what I want to do yeah and I was sure of it because I tried other things that I was like for sure I don't want to do yeah yeah I think if you're gonna go to college I'm a big advocate for college I think uh for some people they don't need it and I'm like that's really cool but I'm not someone that didn't need it um for me it because I was so sheltered at home I really I didn't get to take advantage of it now kind of in retrospect um I wish I would have taken College more of like um kind of like the buffet of what the world has to offer um but then with that also comes cost so if you can afford to do that that's super that's super good element for sure um because you can try different languages you can try different Majors you can try different hobbies and like you can and you're meeting so many different study abroad study abroad all of that right like you you meet so many different people from so many different

8:26 walks of life that you really don't get to meet outside in the real world right because in the real world now you have to like make a living or like I don't know pay bills or do whatever reality sets in yeah um but when you're in college you're kind of like in this really cool protected bubble where people have kind of the same mindset of like they're trying to be better at life um so like I wish when I was in college I wish I wasn't in such a rush you know where I'm like ████ I just want to finish and I just want to get into my career and like I'm 20 something like what the ████ do you really know um but there are some people like my brother that was like I just want to like work with my hands like I don't want to do any of this ████ so he really early on like for him was like I don't want college I just want to build my own business up and you know I want to be an electrician and I want to like I love this ████ and he just got out of it that's a blessing to know what you want

9:17 to do yeah I had no idea what I wanted to do yeah um but yeah I think for certain people if you can afford to do it which is again a bummer but I think there's scholarships and a bunch of stuff now that you can apply for but um I I would say like dude experience it be in a frat or an absority like get into different activities go to these parties like just have fun yeah the experiences yeah it's a big difference it's unmatched that's really cool that your brother uh he went to trade school yes that's I'm a big proponent for trade schools like I'm really really strong about people going to trade and I think just in general the nation is really trying to encourage people to do that more because those people never are out of a job and there's always a demand like especially electricians right now like there's not enough electricity today's video is brought to you by Lumi you know I am very sensitive to smile

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11:51 trade school it's like you learn exactly it's very specific yeah same with like I think obviously the dream is to go to stem field if you're like going to college at all like that's probably a better guaranteed result but in terms of like other decisions like artistic or creative that's borderline like if you figure out while you're there how to not be there yeah and still do that that is the better choice yeah but you have to figure that out that's the hard part because I dropped out of UCI to compete for America's best answer that's so that's like worth it to me yeah yeah like because I was like oh I think I can just do this but um but then I was there for journalism and then I I left with well I have one semester and now here you are back in journalism

12:41 full circle yeah the real one but that was one of those things too where I had teachers in college that were also sensible enough to tell like every teacher that I had in journalism was very um much a realist and they were like technically if you can write now then do it oh it's awesome that's tight yeah because uh they were saying like you're just an author on a page no one's like how old is that person how much do they know like if you can write it it's written like it's the body of work it's this and she's like yeah I mean I can write it it's written yeah that was right before she told me about the dip Dodge duck diamonds she's very redundant but which was great but that like uh I think the worst part about college is the illusion that you need it yeah and it depends on who's yeah it depends

13:32 who's saying it but if the system is saying it and culture is saying it that's harder I think it's better if someone sensible is telling you oh you need this if you want this but then the idea as a collective where it's a given that like oh in order to be a successful person that's where it's not true yeah yeah and especially especially nowadays too it's like you have to keep in question if you're going to um take on debt like comparison another game yeah yeah like really taking that into consideration of what are you gonna study what are you gonna come out with it like and how much debt you're willing to take on because I think when you're young you think like okay it's gonna be fine but afterwards it's a big weight over your shoulders that you you have to always deal with yeah you started you start life at a negative we'll think of like film school for for instance I use this example for people like who want to go to film school

14:23 um of course there's always going to be pros and cons going to school some people may come out of it with more knowledge than others um but with Film School particularly I think the money that you spend on school spend it on your gear spend it on your equipment and now you have the tools that you need to actually execute the things that you're going to work on yeah and you can get like in um experience on the job and you can rent your own gear up you can rent it out right so just now you own it and if worst case you sell it and then you go to school yeah I'm definitely um I'm more of a like dude just do what you want like I'm not for or against College because for me um I went to Community College and I also stopped for the exact same reason because of ABDC idiot and I was like

15:13 when is this opportunity ever gonna happen again I'm Quinn school I'm quitting my job I'm just gonna go do this and then when I was done with the show I was like do I want to go back to school that because then that was another question it's like okay but what do I really want to do and it always comes back to the question of what do you really want to do and then once I realized you know what like what about what if it's not what about what I want to do what if it's about what I can do right now because of my opportunities that I have right now yeah yeah it's like I can definitely go back to school or I can dance because this dance thing is only gonna happen now sure yeah very true I just picked the thing that I know for sure I'm not going to get this chance again yeah that's that's really good way of seeing it yeah unless you want to be like a lawyer or a doctor or something that you actually really need yeah yeah yeah

16:04 if you lawyered it you lied it yeah because you write it it's written wow this is just mind-blowing yeah the option to go back to school is always going to be there it's never gonna go away because there's always going to be and they'll always want your money dude that's right yeah that's like yeah come back and of course we love to have it also like know how you learn some people aren't good in the classroom setting yeah um yeah you know some people learn better by Hands-On or figuring problems out like on the job yeah you know what actually not uh going to college I only went for like a semester but not going to college after experience what college was like I was like dude I really actually love learning so let me try my best to learn what I can from my travels from just experience and whatever just soak it all

16:54 in and still try to gather knowledge because I knew that that was the point of college right is to learn you're really good at it because you've done you've had your own um you had Dusky Hunters you had like your music now you have your editing gig like you you're just you've yeah you're going company yeah whatever you pick up you like Master it dude thanks thanks I had my own like Journey almost of like different feelings for it so when I first got into college it was like I needed it because I was it was pre-med so I have to go to college we have to go to graduate school then I started doing JK with Joe and then there's this whole time where like I really hated it and almost my second and third year was like all theater or film classes and I'm like man when I get out but I'm like so close to graduating and then that was the time I would see like 1050 delegetto drop out of college Camp jumbo

17:45 dropped out of college everyone was just like just dropping out of college I'm like man should I do it but I didn't have the balls too so we ended up graduating and then we started doing JK and then when because I think I had such a like negative feeling towards it when we're doing JK and it's all about pursuing their passions I was like man you don't need college like you could just go and if you figure out what you want you just get after it 100 and then um I had a very like you don't need college type of mentality and then I remember we started touring the nation and uh I would start doing shows at all kinds of colleges State schools Ivy Leagues whatever and I'm like oh ████ and we had this conversation yesterday when I'm like dude some of these kids that go to the top schools they're a different breed of kid and like for example we're at Brown University which is the Ivy League school and then we had dinner with one of the kids and he's a junior and then oh like what are you doing your free

18:35 time I was like created this thing called The Bite card what's a bike card and he pulled out a credit card and on the corner it was like a bit like almost like a like by a cartoon character he goes what I did is I went to all the um like eateries and restaurants in this neighborhood and I'm like can can we do an arrangement where if like these kids they pay they pay like the subscribership and then it's automatic like 15 or 20 off at BJ's uh like Chick-fil-A whatever and I'm like you did that as a ████ Junior which is like well in 20 or 21 in college while he's pre-med oh my this is just a different level of kids it's like innovators yeah yeah so like when we when we would speak at Stanford or speak out whatever I'm like okay like these places like this is literally like a think tank for the Future Leaders of America you guys need to assemble and be

19:26 here yeah like for someone like me like I was probably just filling a seat so I don't know if I really needed college so I had that like eye-opening experience I'm like if you get if you get into the top colleges like that is a portal to the next level like you guys are going to be senators and you know crazy ████ like that then afterwards after that period I started like looking at the way that I structure my life and I'm like you know what I think the biggest thing I actually took away from college is kind of like being able to look at things from a macro point of view and long distance because I think usually it's like dude how do I lose weight in two years everything's so short you know and then usually the biggest thing that anyone has ever even thinked about a time frame is college four years yeah six years yeah yeah or like six years however long and that was the first time I was like you know what like because of college it made me be

20:17 able to look at something what do I want to accomplish in four years how does that break down into every year every quarter every semester down to the day almost like okay if I want to do this I need to do this every Tuesday and Thursday at 10 A.M your own graduation of life exactly and so that's how I started like um structuring my and then I looked back on oh that's how I structure my life like if I want to get it like when I talk to uh Nick about Jiu Jitsu I'm like I'm not going to commit the Jitsu unless I'm do Tuesday Thursdays this time and then I'll do that for five years straight but that ability to think like that that kind of like mental infrastructure I'm like oh ████ I don't think I would have had it had I not gone to college I kind of have like this full circle now where I'm like I think I was one of those kids that needed college to be able to look at what's my Big Goal over a long period of Time how do I break it down and then how do I take the individual classes that lead to the actual course that lead to

21:09 the degree like your life degree you know yeah yeah right that's actually a really good way to think yeah you know what you can also tell people that are questioning whether they should go to college or not and pursue the dream I actually would tell them if you can do both do both like go to college and on your free time do your other thing you don't necessarily have to give up one or the other right just do both if you can fit it if it works yeah like if you like it enough you would manage the time properly to get it all you'll make it work right definitely that's true [Music] thank you

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