We rarely see a case of attention deficit disorder as obvious as this.
College dropout makes $100,000 a year, with a two-day workweek
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#53Flagged. Come on, really?
The fact that you were downmodded tells me that the bozos are now the majority of HN. Time for a new digg clone?
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#54I really dislike these posts, which are all the same "Person who skips college retires at 24" or "College really needed? This man makes 400,000 a year!" Of course college doesn't guarantee that you'll come out making $100k a year or more, but also NOT going to college is the same. As happy as I am for this person, I hope no one gets the wrong idea from these posts and just drops out. Having an idea is one thing, putt…
Wow are you ever missing the point of this story.
You're assuming he read it
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#55Flagged. Come on, really?
The fact that you were downmodded tells me that the bozos are now the majority of HN. Time for a new digg clone?
Ok - it's a story about a clown. But does that mean it only satisfies the intellectual curiosity of bozos?
I'll take this article over another tawdry analysis of the financial crisis any day.
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#56Excellent article and excellent writing. Anyone complaining about this being too long has some ADD issues of their own; they should especially make the effort to read this as a warning what happens when such tendencies are allowed to take over their life.
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#58is "college dropout" really anything special these days?
society tells me that if I want to make anything out of my life, college is the place to go. One poster in my High School flaunts that I will make one million dollars more in my lifetime if I go to college.
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#59This is a somewhat old article. It's also very, very long. It's also one of the greatest newspaper feature stories I've ever read. It was passed around the writers' circles I was part of when the Post ran it years ago. Here's the gist (from memory): 1. Guy has a gift for connecting with little kids. 2. Guy has good sense of humor. 3. Guy decides to do magic shows at pre-school birthday parties for a living. 4. Guy ta…
Thank you for the last couple of paragraphs of your summary that provided the motivation to actually read the article. To others here quick to dismiss it out-of-hand as just a fluff piece, it's anything but.
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#60here's the Great Zucchini in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVjB4f_nBvQ&fmt=18