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I have a college degree. In fact, I have a couple of them. My first long-term relationship was with a self-employed handyman. He was very bright and amazingly philosophical. I remember one time we went to a party of my coworkers. My "handyman" parked the car as I went on in to the party. Someone asked me in a derisive manner where was the handyman who I had been seeing. I did not have to defend him, he could do that himself without even knowing it. In casual conversation he could talk intelligently on virtually any subject.
I like intelligent, intriguing men. Diplomas are not required.
Intelligence isn't regulated to just college educated people. As you found out, people can be just as intelligent as a person who has a diploma.
I have a degree, but it had no bearing on my intelligence to real life. People used to think I was just a dumb jock who could bench press 3 of them. They had no clue that I was graduating at the top of my class and preparing a speech to give on graduation day. I just keep to myself and do what I gotta do, and I typically don't give my opinion unless I'm directly asked to give it.
Intelligence isn't regulated to just college educated people. As you found out, people can be just as intelligent as a person who has a diploma.
I have a degree, but it had no bearing on my intelligence to real life. People used to think I was just a dumb jock who could bench press 3 of them. They had no clue that I was graduating at the top of my class and preparing a speech to give on graduation day. I just keep to myself and do what I gotta do, and I typically don't give my opinion unless I'm directly asked to give it.
I tell people that a degree means nothing but that society approves of the way you've channeled your intelligence so far.
I was always considered the "dumb blonde #2" in my family (lots of kids), but was strangely the first one to graduate college and the only one to obtain postgraduate education. There are some of my siblings who barely got out of high school alive and enjoy the 2.5 kids, 2.5 cars in a 2 car garage with a swimming pool kind of suburban life. And they're happy. My degrees have financially given me only a lot of debt so far, but I consider them an investment over time and I'm confident they will pay off eventually. As for happiness, they've already paid themselves off several times over.
And for all of that, I would unfortunately be someone who would consider a gym jockey as being less than top of the class I'm ashamed to admit. Sometimes it's rather pleasant to be shown wrong. But I will go ahead and keep this one stereotype because I'm convinced you are an outlier as you are the first one I've ever heard of. Unless you count Ah-Nold. Which I don't because I'm still not convinced he's intelligent. However, the fact that you exist in some form will be in the back of my head the next time I meet a person who brags about benching three people at once.
I tell people that a degree means nothing but that society approves of the way you've channeled your intelligence so far.
I was always considered the "dumb blonde #2" in my family (lots of kids), but was strangely the first one to graduate college and the only one to obtain postgraduate education. There are some of my siblings who barely got out of high school alive and enjoy the 2.5 kids, 2.5 cars in a 2 car garage with a swimming pool kind of suburban life. And they're happy. My degrees have financially given me only a lot of debt so far, but I consider them an investment over time and I'm confident they will pay off eventually. As for happiness, they've already paid themselves off several times over.
And for all of that, I would unfortunately be someone who would consider a gym jockey as being less than top of the class I'm ashamed to admit. Sometimes it's rather pleasant to be shown wrong. But I will go ahead and keep this one stereotype because I'm convinced you are an outlier as you are the first one I've ever heard of. Unless you count Ah-Nold. Which I don't because I'm still not convinced he's intelligent. However, the fact that you exist in some form will be in the back of my head the next time I meet a person who brags about benching three people at once.
I was incredibly different coming out of high school compared to a lot of other people. The total amount of weight I was lifting over the 3 "major" lifts(bench press, leg squatt, power clean) was around 1300lbs, 700 of that came from leg squatts alone. Makes no difference about what others think, I am who I am. When I went into school a lot of people thought I would flunk out immediately. Turns out, I was making highest scores, A's acrossed the board, and I was juggling some lifting, the coming death in my family, and my school work. God I was so terrible at math, anything above algebra 1, I just couldn't grasp it. I tried, had a tutor, studied for hours and hours on end. All I could manage was a C in that class, but I passed it. The last class I was taking, I was approached by a teacher I had a few semesters ago. He said all of the teachers were discussing what I was doing in there classes, and decided that I should be a speaker in my class, and given there highest honors based on my grades, my applications in the classroom, and a 98% attendance record.
I did it, but I struggled throughout school. Not the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but it was certainly one of the hardest things I've done in my lifetime. And I was the first person in my entire family to have a post High school education diploma in my hands.
Mind you, I'm not like the other jocks. I don't have an ego, and I don't go around showing off or anything. I pretty much keep to myself and I don't do anything close to showing off.
I do not require a date to have a degree, although I think it is good if they do. It simply means they have more education and the ability to have a good career.
With regards to academic qualifications i'm not that spectacular. If, heavens forbid, i'm ever single again it looks like i'll have to fall back on my charm and good looks.
Everyone has their own dating and marriage criteria, so to each their own.
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