Yes! Guess what? I met my husband in college and we married when I was 20. He graduated with a Geology degree. Went to work at an environmental company- realized he hated office politics and environmental work. Quit, enrolled in a union (IBEW) school for teledata installation. Then Journeyman's school. Got hired out of the hall at the biggest Ivy league school in the nation and they offered him permanent full time. He now works as a network technician, loves his job and his degree did nothing for him. I have an English Lit degree and would love to be a teacher....someday however I have three kids so I stayed home with them. STILL waiting for the day that I can benefit from my degree.
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Originally Posted by DarknessIsMyFriend
Agreed.
People down both community colleges and trade school, yet don't realize you can get jobs that pay really well through them without ever going to a university.
For example, I had a friend that went to a trade school in my area to study to work in IT. He finished in a year and got 2 certifications. He immediately got hired into a good company. He started at about 30 grand per year. About 2 years later, he is making close to 60 grand a year off working enterprise tech support (the guys that provide tech support to help fix those big servers that large corporations use and company networks with thousands of users) and he only gets 2-3 calls a day at most. He goes up to work in his PJs and takes a gaming laptop and literally plays WoW and watches Twitch streams all day in between calls lol.
Also I know another person that makes a 6 figure salary as a software engineer without ever even setting foot in a university. He only earned an associates and that's it. He even admitted the job is easy because he just Googles half of his problems.
Keep in mind that I live in a real low cost of living state so those figures that I mentioned would actually be higher in a major city where cost of living is double to what it is here.
So yeah, I don't see a need to go to a university.
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