Junior looks to college, debates worth

Students begin their senior year or even their junior year questioning everything that their future could possibly hold. They struggle to find out what they truly want to do for their rest of their lives. Some even become stressed with all the possible debt they could be in after they complete college. Knowing this, is there a tip that could possibly help us make this decision easier on confused or stressed students? The fact is that students who choose not to attend college could possibly still end up making just as good of a living as those that choose to attend college.

Every year, approximately 50 million students graduate high school and continue onto college. Fifty-one percent of college graduates are in jobs that do not require a degree at all. Some of these people may, while working in government jobs, make a minimum of $25,000- $30,000 a year with a bachelor’s degree. Whereas others that go on to different careers, for example, in fast-food restaurants such as McDonald’s or KFC as a general manager with no degree, can go on to make $42,000-50,000 a year. Should one do research on the desired occupation, before investing thousands of dollars into college?

When you think about how much money one could make in the right career without a degree, it makes you wonder is going through all that trouble really the right choice for you. This is not intended to make one want to throw away their dreams but to encourage them to make the right decision. Who in this world would want to live with the agonizing question, What if? This should not be a decision that one thinks is easy and quick, because of the simple fact that this decision will change your life forever. Recent statistics say that 57 percent of college graduates regret their decision to attend college due to the lack of jobs available in their chosen field. Some of those who find the job they wanted so badly are unhappy with the pay or the job in general.

Some are also disgusted with the fact that they borrowed or spent thousands, yet struggle to get to where they are now in life, and there is another person out there who in their opinion work nearly as hard and still ended up better off. Both choices, however, still lead one to have to work hard to reach their selected goals.

College is a chance at creating great memories, reinventing yourself and becoming the person one has desired to be. Getting a college degree is a gigantic deal, some people have family members who have never gotten a degree. To some families it is special and a mind-blowing experience that one must feel. Although, it is not about what the family thinks, or even what the family wants. It is about what one wants for themselves.

Some students and parents look at college like a must-do. Counselors, advisors, teachers, principals and even fellow peers try to preach on the importance of going to college. Telling one that without a degree, one will most likely never amount to anything in life or struggle to make ends meet. Well there are other options because they are some families out there who are doing just fine without. Who cares if it is not easy to get to the right position to make the desired money without a degree? It’s a whole lot harder to do so when you have to spend those years in college and then try to find a job and work up that economic ladder of success.

If one already knows that college is not for them, they should not feel defeated or ashamed because they are not alone. If you do not do the research how does one know what is the right choice is. One also has to be fully committed to whatever decision made, or else one could be a part of those 57 percent that regret the decision in which they made. There are millions of people out there have that question running through their veins every second. Is college for me?