Your days of being wild

[CountDeMoney]

How about you go fuck yourselves.

[Razgovory]

I lost my mind and hurt some people.

[celedhring]

Going to the US, I guess. I know "going back to college" is actually the opposite of "dropping out", but I had a pretty lucrative gig back then in the Spanish telly, and I quit it to go to the US to shake up things in my life. The course load wasn't all that, so there was plenty of self-discovering, being naively artistic, bohemian parties, and living hand to mouth.

That's about it really, I'm not a wild person. Have plenty of friends that have gone off the grid completely for years, and still landed on their feet.

[11B4V]

Damn you folks are some wild ones. 

[Josquius]

Bouncing around jobs internationally is living wild?
Well call me Paddy McParty.
And all this time I thought it was the economy

[Martinus]

Yeah and then have Raz use that information after 5 years for a personal attack? No way.

[Razgovory]

Scared of little ol' me?

[Grey Fox]

No real wild days. I had children at the same time than BB & I am ~10 years younger.

[garbon]

Scared of little ol' me?

And also coming from a man who attacks me about how I had treatment for MDD 6 years ago.

[derspiess]

No.  Unless not taking college seriously enough (while still graduating) counts.

[Legbiter]

Well only thing I regret is not dropping acid with Malthus back in the day but otherwise I've lived a full life.

[Liep]

I'm considering going wild.

[Phillip V]

One of my cousins (sister of the guy who just had his window shot out) is something of a free spirit.  She's been an au pair in a couple European countries and South Africa; worked a couple dead end jobs overseas, got really into acid for some time, studied yoga in Indonesia and is now contemplating a move to the big island of Hawaii with her fiance to open her own yoga retreat.  They're there right now, they live in a primitive campground without electricity or running water where they perform some menial tasks to defray the cost of their stay.  They have no transportation, and rely on hitchhiking in order to make it to town.  My cousin has found a job helping a guy with either autism or Asperger syndrome deal with people, but she has to hitch hike to that job too.  Naturally her mother (my godmother) is appalled by all of this; but I suspect in a decade she'll be the most successful person I know and will amuse people with her stories of her days of being wild.

I'm curious if anyone here has ever "Dropped out" like that.

I haven't (in case you thought I was going in that direction).  I graduated from college at age 22 with a STEM degree, joined the corporate work force a couple months later and stayed there ever since, with a few months of unemployment.

I plan to "drop out" after I get rich and middle-aged.  If not, oh well.

For other people making the choice young, it should depend on your obligations.  My parents are my dependents, so it would have been evil for me to go wild and let them toil in poverty for several more years.

[alfred russel]

I dropped out of college, moved into a long term motel with cheap weekly rates because I couldn't get an apartment, and worked crappy restaurant jobs, trolling a certain internet forum in my downtime.

[KRonn]

I was never adventurous, or perhaps brave enough. Even in my younger days when such adventurism is more doable I was looking for a career and steady jobs and growth, that sort of thing.  I do know of people who did do a lot of moving around in their younger days, and they're seen and done a lot which I think is hugely beneficial.