When you are in high school the student has many options to look at it when thinking about their future and what they want to do with their life. The military, tech school, and college seem to be the only choices except to go out in get a job. Our culture and probably most parents put pressure on a student to go to college because traditionally the wages and quality of life was better for a college graduate than for a high school graduate.
College seems like a long way away and unattainable for a lot of students, but studies still support the idea that a college graduate will make more money and live better than one who does not attend. Finances are the biggest obstacle for a freshman college student to overcome.
Tuition for college, the cost of text books, the cost of living and basically the cost of the education is enough to drain some families bank accounts or to put the student into debt for a majority of their life while the pay off student loans. Why all the suffering? What is the big deal about going to college? Many students ask that question and because they do not get logical answer or any answer at all, they refuse to go.
A college graduate, on average, does make substantially more money than a person that does not go to college. This does not mean that the person that does not go to college cannot get a job that makes as much or more than a college graduate. There is a large number that do have jobs and have little to no education beyond high school. They have secured these positions through longevity and gaining knowledge of the work place. The resume is packed with experience instead of a degree. This is fine, but it takes time and a lot of common sense to make it in the world that way.
College graduates are pretty much guaranteed the chance to get a higher paying job that lets them use their brains instead of their hands. The man who finds the oil under the ground makes a lot more money by knowing how to find it, through college, then the workers who have to get dirty and build the well that pumps the oil from the ground. Going to college is a choice of what you want to do with your life and how well you want to live it. You may not decide to go to college right after high school but you are able to go when you feel the time is right.
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