College is a HUGE waste of time and money.

If you're considering a skilled trade take a look at the nearest JATC (Joint Apprentice Training Committee) affiliated with the IBEW. We pay for your training and you earn while you learn, apprentices go to school for a week once every six weeks.

Here is a link to our local JATC just to give you an idea of the program, my son is going to be 15 in a week and I've already told him if he wants in and is willing to work hard he can be making over 60k by the time he is 23 with good benefits.

[link to www.swidjatc.org]

I went to college....

I was in a sorority...

I was a little sister in a fraternity...

I don't remember it....but I am sure it was worthwhile....

college is what YOU make of it. Just like life. If you dont put any effort into it and sit there and drink beer, have sex, and smoke weed then yea college is nothing but another high school experience that you can ramble on about for the rest of your life. Im getting a degree in psychology and tell ya what, i always find people hiring at job fairs and every time i look online for jobs that will pay for graduate school guess what! there are jobs that pay for it- while paying you! '

i went to community college for two years, spent right about 12 grand and for my 2 years at a university i will spend about 20 grand... 32 grand for a extra 1 million in my lifetime? ill take that.

again, college is what you make of it.

I went back to school at 22, 3.5 years later degree with a 3.85 GPA in IT.. got out in 1996 (and only owed $1,800) hired out of school at $35k, changed jobs in 8 months for 46k, at 12 months, got an offer for $65k and made my employer match it.at 18 months, I was an independent contractor at $55 an hour, then 2 years out of school I landed a local contract for $165 an hour cause I had skills in a certain software package over the previous year that was very rare.. that contract lasted 28 months until late 2000. Did a 3 months contract after that, then went back as a full time employee at $85k a year cause of the tech crash. That job lasted 2 years, then was unemployed for about 4.5 months.. that sucked.. landed my current job where I work now for over 9 years.. working at home..

I pity kids getting out of school now.. I feel sorry for my kids. I have had a great ride.

depend on what you want to learn, a person does need a degree just to be a photographer or musician but he or she will definitely need a ''degree'' for such as x-ray technician or working along side surgeon....

I am 20, and MOST of my graduating class is going to college.

When I was in school, I thought I would be a failure because I didn't want to go to college. (LOL)

Thats because every single stupid school PRAISES and ADORES and promotes the idea that "if you do not go to college, you will be a FAILURE the rest of your life working as a garbageman"

NO, here is the problem with all of that propaganda:

1.) in a bad economy, there are not enough high paying jobs for everyone. In fact, there are not enough high paying jobs for even 10% of everyone. There ALWAYS has to be 50 junky low paying jobs for every high paying one, because THE LOW PAYING ONES SUPPORT THAT 100$ PER HOUR JOB! You can't have a kingdom without serfs! That is why minimum wage has to be higher, because if nobody worked at McDonalds and everyone was a high paid "professional" there would be no economy or production.

2.) The percentages of people from my graduating class that are going to college is insane, almost everyone goes. Now, tell me how even half or even 25% of the kids in my school are going to get a high paying job? They simply WILL NOT. They will be paying off that degree for the rest of their life, if our currency holds up that long (it probably won't)

3.) No offense to anyone, but in order to benefit from that degree you have to be ABOVE AVERAGE intelligence AND ambitious. Most college kids are neither of those, and they simply scoot past classes and have sex and drink beer and act dumb like they will the rest of their lives.

4.) The courses at colleges are the absolute biggest piles of garbage I have ever seen in my life, almost worse than public school. You are paying over 100$ a day to stay at the school and go to these classes, and most of them are either someone rambling about a topic they are not a true expert in, or something retarded like Yoga or bowling. (no kidding, my friend said he took yoga and bowling classes for college credits.)

It is NOT what it used to be, stop believing the lies of college, the owners of the colleges are in it for the money and that is IT.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, I was able to find (thank you God) a good job at a place that has plenty of opportunity and is paying 11.40 an hour right now, just got a 1$ raise recently after working there for 2 months. I work hard at what I have to do, I try to pay attention the best I can. The other kids my age there are generally lazy and don't try their best.

Most kids that go to college just want an easy pass to a high paying job, it does not and never will work that way.

My youngest is in her first year of college. She is majoring in Accounting, with a minor in Business, and also will have an Associates Degree in Organizational Management when she gradutes in 2016. Her boyfriend is taking the same classes. They plan to work for at least a year with an Accounting Firm, and then create their own. Their goal, besides to eventually get married, is to own their own business, be their own boss.
In the meantime, besides going to college full time, my daughter works part time at a seasonal job, and her boyfriend works full time. They are both very ambitious, and real go-getters. She graduated 1st in her class with a GPA of 4.49 and he graduated 5th in the class with a GPA of 4.34.

That is awesome :D it is rare to see that, and they are the example of people that SHOULD be in college.

good for you. someone has to flip my burger.

The thing I hate is that people who went to college keep telling me I should go to college because I'm supposedly a genius (last IQ test said I was pretty average). These same people have thousands in debt and still can't hold a steady job. I think they just want me to be a debt slave too so they can feel better about their poor choices. I might not be a genius, but I know a bad investment when I see one.