College isn't for Everyone

I agree! College is not for everyone. I am personally living the points of this discussion. I myself have a B.S. degree in Business Management. However, I work at a job that requires no college at all. I also have not been able to utilize my degree in this poor economy. I have many many friends who are also sitting in the same situation. On the upside, I do not owe very much in student loans and completed almost all of my schooling by paying as I went instead of getting in debt for my degree. This is due to being able to serve our country and being able to receive money to attend college. It was also something I wanted to do for myself and to be able to show my children that it could be done. I do believe though if you are looking at going to college just to make more money and not for it to be something you personally want to do, then you are going to be very disappointed when you graduate.

As a mother I do understand the feeling of wanting your children to go to college. I hope all of mine do, however forcing them to go isn't the answer. Many people live very happy lives and never step foot on a campus. Also, with so many people getting degrees it does lessen their values. If the degrees were meant to be that everyone should have one, then the government should be required to help achieve them, such as high school diplomas.

"For the most part, the articles we discovered on what a college degree is really worth were pessimistic about retaining valuations from a decade prior, with the rise in college costs and the current lack of jobs. However, a college degree still has value, just not as much as it did before this economic recession." This quote I found on http://collegestats.org/articles/2010/02/whats-a-college-degree-actually-worth-20-good-answers/

Before going to college, you need to make sure it makes since. If you are able to get help with payments and you have the time, then go for it, but I would never suggest to anyone to go in debt to pay for it hoping that a job is going to come along to help pay for it. Chances are you are going to end up with a broken heart and be paying on a student loan you can't afford.