When I graduated from high school, I was really unsure about what I wanted to do for a career. I was pushed by my parents into going to college, but I quit about a semester into it because I was too lazy to do the work and I wasn’t really feeling it.

The first piece of advice I would like to give to all of you is don’t go to college if you really weren’t a hard worker in high school because you will just look stupid and end up wasting a lot of time and money. School really isn’t for everybody. It doesn’t matter how much other people tell you to go because it’s your life and you’re living it – not them.

College is kinda like getting married. Nothing will change after you’re married. If you fight when you’re dating, chances are the fighting will get worse when your married. College just means there will be more work and less time to do it. It might not be too much harder, it will just be more of it.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying don’t go to school at all. If you want to and have your priorities straight, more power to you.

In the middle of my senior year in high school I started a video internship with a program called BAVC. Then I took an internship with YO!, which leads me to a second piece of advice; do as many internships as you can while you’re young because employers love that.

I also did volunteer work. It’s like the reason you go to school. You go to school to learn skills to pursue your career. If you do volunteer work, you learn skills and it builds up at the end. I volunteer at the food bank. My father was very poor growing up and he used to get his turkey for thanksgiving from organizations like the food bank, so he told me to check it out.

I guess what I am saying whatever you do, make it count. Put your heart into it and you’ll make it. – Chris Vargas