I am a little biased.
Everything i learned in college, i later learned was wrong. EVERYTHING!
(especially the sciences)
There are only a few jobs that actually require a degree. Most of those are in STEM. If you are in one of those, you will want to finish the degree.
All other degrees aren't worth the paper they are printed on, and their value is falling daily.
Worthless: The Young Person's Indispensable Guide to Choosing the Right Major by Aaron Clarey
You might find this book very helpful, especially in explaining your plans to other people. Aaron Clarey has a youtube channel and it may be very beneficial as he talks about this subject a lot.
Now, the reality of the situation.
If you took all the money you were paying for college and stuck it into crypto-currencies, you would have more money for the rest of your life than you know what to do with. The degree will most likely not even pay for itself.
Taking your time and working as an unpaid intern for the next 2 years is a better path to gaining skills and future employment. A degree does not teach you any skills. The internship will.
So, really, you need to find what you wish to do. And wasting money on a college is wasting a lot of money.
Also, look for a machine shop class. There are trade schools about, and they may even be free. From govern-cement programs and such. If you really want to work with firearms, this may be a really good path.
I am currently in a STEM major, but I really have no intention to get a career in the field even if I get the degree.
Thanks a lot for your input man, I really value it. I will think about it
Outside of a handful of careers a college degree isn't really worth the
moneydebt. A lot of skills can be learned for free and certification can be challenged. More and more employers are finding college students don't have any useful skills or knowledge and end up having to train them anyways. If you can get an entry level job and work your way up it might be better. 4 years of school vs 4 years of work experience with income.The US is economy is doing good right now, if the Trump administration can curtail illegal immigration the demand for legal labor will increase. At rally he mentioned plans proposal to replacement for ACA in a few weeks from now. This could further reduce the burden on employers of legal labor. I was a bear on the US economy until Trump got elected and moved my investments into the US.
Study business and finance in your free time. The two best ways to get rich is investment and business. https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain <- they have a good series to get you started in economics and finance.
thanks for the thought man! I love learning, and I am bummed that I have to jump through someone else's hoops to learn what I want since I can go online to sights like khan academy and do exactly that for free. Downturn is always something to contend with and no matter who is president, as long as we have centralized banking and FIAT currency, it's simply a waiting game.
The central banks will fail, their original plan was to use a debt bomb as an excuse for SDR reserve or whatever global reserve currency they wanted to create to replace the USD. Crypto technology is advancing a rapid pace, once we really figure it out we can drop the central banks. I don't think they will pull the plug because it will be their down fall. If they want to survive there is going to be a partial or full debt jubilee. Possibly a return to the gold standard.
Crypto is check, and its mate once the markets fully implement it. Crypto is too speculative right now for most businesses that need price stability.
That is very true