A common story amongst high school graduates who maintain an interest in secondary education often find that there are many more factors that will influence their decision to attend. Often it is the dollar that decides where a college student begins his or her journey and when the dollar is the deciding factor many students find themselves on a different career path than they had planned.
A Degree Without All the Debt
Insightful enough to want to avoid accumulating the large amount of debt that is commonly associated with enrollment into a private or even state university, one may decide to look further into the always tempting secondary option of a two-year community or technical college. After all, a degree is a degree, right? This is a common misconception among many students pushed into pursuing secondary education. The problem is, many degrees obtainable in two-year colleges pay about as well as your typical manufacturing job or even less.
No Bang For Your Buck
Mislead by instructors and advocates of college education students will borrow loan after loan paying to continue their education all the while being led by a carrot on a string tied to a stick promoting the unlikely success stories that keep selling the dream. About the time that one begins venturing into their studied field by way of an internship there becomes a sudden sobering as time after time the student is denied the chance to intern with a legitimate organization due to economic struggles of the company.
What Now?
At this point one can plainly see that after thousands of dollars later the field in which one has so heavily invested time and effort is not so plentiful with opportunity as once lead to believe. What follows is either a perseverance to seek out the end of a commitment and graduate despite the uncertainty of the investment or to step out and reevaluate one's future, potentially cutting losses and starting over hopefully better informed and more successful.
The Conclusion
Very rarely does the story end with an enthusiastic college graduate taking pick of many different successful paths laid before him/her, but it is possible if time is invested into researching future outlook of career options before jumping right into what is pitched to be a necessary stepping stone towards success, a college education. It is important to look at college as an investment into ones self not a ticket to a guaranteed lucrative career. It is not wise to throw thousands of dollars into investments that you are not completely informed about, so weigh the pro's and con's and make an educated decision.
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