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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah. This brings back memories. Of the BF's dad and stepmom who warned him that I was "a nobody" who was "beautiful but going nowhere." The bf was selling houses (new home sales, didn't even have a realtor's license) for context.

I was trying to figure out what to do in my late 20s and was modeling a tiny bit (I never got much work, but got some) and cocktail waitressing in a club on weekends. After he broke up with me I ended up going to law school, have had an amazing career, and made a lot of money. He's now divorced from a woman he met at a Pizza Hut and has had a string of long-term GFs since, none of them particularly impressive career-wise. I follow it on FB and laugh. 
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My niece  has been modeling since toddler-hood and at 27 owns a house in LA.  No college. Straight A's from private  school  K-12. Her mom (my gorgeous sister) paid for that  schooling with her cocktail waitressing job in Vegas.  She has 160 college credits, 3.8GPA while working full-time  but no degree.

Some people have no clue there are imaginative ways of life to be successful.[/quote]

I don’t understand the comment.

Everyone knows you can become a multi millionaire as an actor, but less than 1% achieve that status.

Same for musicians, models and other similar professions.  College doesn’t help you in any way in these professions, so nobody cares about it.

I will comment that rarely do successful artists want their kids to pursue the same path with no college.  Hence why Paltrow’s kids are in college…Affleck’s kids…etc.

They realize how hard a business it is and how unique a person you need to be  successful.[/quote]

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