The college degree of today is like the high school degree when I was young. Employers who hire just want to see it because they have one. There's one rent a car company in the US whose name escapes me that won't hire you unless you have one. Imagine essentially being a cashier renting out cars needing a degree?
If you get a degree make sure it says you are employable. Chemical engineering, nursing, teaching or something else that says you have a trade. Don't graduate in debt with no prospect of a job. A student loan is the only loan that isn't forgivable in bankruptcy. No matter how much it compounds in interest due to late payment you will have that debt forever.
I find the people who are making serious money are in the trades. Collision repair, pizza shop owner, counter top guys, carpenters, plumbers and the like. An example of this is my barber who is 30 years old charges $15 a hair cut and then gets tipped $2 to $5 dollars. His shop is always packed because he knows all the current cuts and he's good. He cuts while I'm there about 5 hair cuts an hour. Sometimes more and sometimes less. He has said on more than one occasion he makes more than every person he went to high school with who has a college degree Another young man I know has a kitchen counter top business. He puts in granite and fancy kitchen counter tops. He lives in an incredible house with impressive cars.
I believe in education but it also warps minds in that almost every professor has never lived in the real world. The academic world is a breeding ground for the disease of liberalism. A guy who went to grade school, high school, 5 to 7 years of college and now teaches has a warped view point and influences young dopey kids. What a gig though. 9 months of work teaching two classes a week for $100K plus. The colleges can afford to pay these professors the best. They will have you just take out another loan so they can spread the wealth to themselves.
