I think it's overrated when you don't know what you want to do, Which as a 17-18 year old kid, I don't know how anyone expects you to know what you want to do for the rest of your life.
So you end up going to a 4 year school for 5-6 years at $10-20k a semester, finance it and end up with $100k+ in student loan debt. All because you didn't know what you wanted to do. Maybe you even get a useless theater degree or liberal arts degree.
Then you're stuck paying off a mortgage sized student loan debt for the next decade plus, Probably working a job you could have gotten after high school.
Then it cripples your ability to risk, because you owe the government money and can't bankrupt it no matter what.
In my opinion it's better to go get a job at a restaurant, or work at a trade, or just get a full time job if you don't know what path you want to take. Get some real world experience and see how much having a crappy job sucks.
Even if you went to a community college and spent $1k a semester, id rather save that in the bank and use it for when I know what I want to do.
I'm not saying everyone should be an entrepreneur and drop out, most people don't want that. But I ended up wasting a lot of my parent's money just to fail classes and drop out of college. And college is one expensive way to "find your self"
As for people saying "college sucks and it's useless", I think it's because we're in a bit of an echo chamber here because we know of an alternative way to live life and make a living. Plus most of us will be biased to pay attention when we hear someone say college sucks, since a lot of us have taken a different path, and we want to justify our own choices and strengthen our own arguments.
School isn't good or bad, it's just a tool that some people use in the wrong way.
So you end up going to a 4 year school for 5-6 years at $10-20k a semester, finance it and end up with $100k+ in student loan debt. All because you didn't know what you wanted to do. Maybe you even get a useless theater degree or liberal arts degree.
Then you're stuck paying off a mortgage sized student loan debt for the next decade plus, Probably working a job you could have gotten after high school.
Then it cripples your ability to risk, because you owe the government money and can't bankrupt it no matter what.
In my opinion it's better to go get a job at a restaurant, or work at a trade, or just get a full time job if you don't know what path you want to take. Get some real world experience and see how much having a crappy job sucks.
Even if you went to a community college and spent $1k a semester, id rather save that in the bank and use it for when I know what I want to do.
I'm not saying everyone should be an entrepreneur and drop out, most people don't want that. But I ended up wasting a lot of my parent's money just to fail classes and drop out of college. And college is one expensive way to "find your self"
As for people saying "college sucks and it's useless", I think it's because we're in a bit of an echo chamber here because we know of an alternative way to live life and make a living. Plus most of us will be biased to pay attention when we hear someone say college sucks, since a lot of us have taken a different path, and we want to justify our own choices and strengthen our own arguments.
School isn't good or bad, it's just a tool that some people use in the wrong way.
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