I never was one to take much advice. If I had of I probably would be broke today.
I will listen to most anything anyone has to say. In the end whatever I decide to do in life and how it turns out. I am the one who gets credit for it. Good or bad.
So i would say each and everyone of us is responsible for how their life turns out regardless of any advice they should decide to listen to including what i am saying.
I have 3 brothers & 3 sisters all colleges graduates. We were all expected to go to college.
All did except me. Finished high school, went to trade school, couple semesters of college.
Decided that was a waste of time & money. Which for me it was. One brother just retired as a nuclear engineer, another brother a Forest ranger, one brother and sister are computer programmers. One sister has a degree in business, one is a school teacher. They all had at a minimum 4 year degree' s.
I have made it through life with as much wealth as the rest of them including the engineer.
Education or going to college to get that education is a business. A roll of toilet paper would be of more benifit than alot of the degrees that you can go to college and get this day and time. Like becomeing a surgeon verses becoming a door to door sales man which i would bet they have a degree to fit that job. I am tring to point out that i would think a surgeon would make alot better living than going door to door saling stuff. Maybe I am wrong about that but I think you get my point.
I am not saying going to college is a bad thing. I just think it's all about the degree your seeking is going to determine how much it is going to benefit you in life.
Some cultures and country's put more value in common sense than education. I myself feel that way.
The reason i am using education as an example is because that seems like one of the things that so many kids rely on to help make them be successful in life.
It does for some but percentage wise. I would bet well over 50 % of college graduates end up making less money in the job market than someone without a college degree. And have a huge student loan that most of them end up defaulting on. Simply because they thought getting the college degree would be their ticket to easy street through life.
College's are money making businesses. I know of a college instructor whom I graduated high school with. How he made it to the forth grade beats me.
I and everyone that went to school with him knew he was lucky to ocassionly make a D on his report card. That was the highest grade he would
make. Most were F's.
Not only did he graduate high school with thoes grades. He is now teaching college courses at a local college. He was into drugs in high school, all the way through life and to this day is a big time druggie !!!