A, B, C, D, F Students: Where are you now in life?

[Anonymous]

A - HS
B - College
A - grad school

STEM for 15 years, currently SAHM

[Anonymous]

High School - A
College #1 (8 hours away) - C's & D's
(I partied my a** off and parents pulled me after 2nd year, took the year off and worked)
College #2 (lived at home) - A's & B's
Teacher for the past 25 years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Average C student all of HS and college. Currently unemployed

Average C student all of HS and college too - maybe even lower in HS as we were supposed to pass at least 5 exams to graduate HS apparently. I didn't. No one has ever asked me if I graduated HS!
I did get a pointless degree after that - average grades.
Years later got several respected professional designations in my field - I have the exact same job as others in my company who were A students in HS and Uni. No one compares - I can just tell via random conversations throughout the years (that they were all diligent students).
Got the (entry-level) job before I got the designations and have progressed through the years.

I may be having a bit of a reading comprehension issue so forgive me-- are you saying you didn't graduate from high school??

The headmaster at the time decided that to graduate students needed to pass at minimum 5 high-level exams. I didn't, I got 4. So I guess not. Don't know if it was recorded that I didn't graduate - or if they let it go.
Don't care at all! It has never come up.
Like I said have qualifications now and a good job. All is well.

Oh and to the 'reading comprehension' poster - in addition my non-graduating story - just to freak you out even more - my husband got kicked out of (upper) high school.
He has a a great job and makes earns than me. He also has professional designations in his field (I.T.).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Average C student all of HS and college. Currently unemployed

Average C student all of HS and college too - maybe even lower in HS as we were supposed to pass at least 5 exams to graduate HS apparently. I didn't. No one has ever asked me if I graduated HS!
I did get a pointless degree after that - average grades.
Years later got several respected professional designations in my field - I have the exact same job as others in my company who were A students in HS and Uni. No one compares - I can just tell via random conversations throughout the years (that they were all diligent students).
Got the (entry-level) job before I got the designations and have progressed through the years.

I may be having a bit of a reading comprehension issue so forgive me-- are you saying you didn't graduate from high school??

The headmaster at the time decided that to graduate students needed to pass at minimum 5 high-level exams. I didn't, I got 4. So I guess not. Don't know if it was recorded that I didn't graduate - or if they let it go.
Don't care at all! It has never come up.
Like I said have qualifications now and a good job. All is well.

Oh and to the 'reading comprehension' poster - in addition my non-graduating story - just to freak you out even more - my husband got kicked out of (upper) high school.
He has a a great job and makes earns than me. He also has professional designations in his field (I.T.).

*earns more it should have said

[Anonymous]

C student in HS; B+ in college, A in grad school.

STEM PhD. Working in my field for 25years. Making a decent salary

[Anonymous]

A high school
low B in college
A/B in grad school

Kind of a bust professionally. Married a high earner.

[Anonymous]

Straight As all through high school and college (+ lots of extra curriculars). I’m now a high school English teacher.

I think I would have been happier with this path if I stayed in the Midwest as this career field was ‘a step up’ from my parents (neither went to college), but now that I’m here in DC, I often wonder what else I could have done/been!

[Anonymous]

Straight As all the way through grad school. Ph.D. Happy and fulfilled with my work in a STEM field. DH was a straight A student, also, and between the two of us were are quite comfortable.