In the spring of her senior year of high school, Malavika Vivek had four choices: Caltech, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, or solutions architect at software company Avasoft Inc.

She chose Avasoft.

Vivek had been working for the company part-time while at a magnet engineering-focused high school in Edison, N.J. When she was offered a full-time position, she couldn’t pass up the opportunity.

“I definitely thought about going to college because those schools are all really good. But in the end, I knew I would learn more discovering things on my own and working in the real world,” Vivek told MarketWatch.

Here's an interesting story I read last week that I thought I'd share with everyone. I'm not a big fan of College. I think for a large percentage of people it's a waste of money. Traditional college education is a waste of money of you're just getting a simple liberal arts or business degree. Those degrees are a dime a dozen and not worth going to school for. However, if you're going to a non-traditional school like a trade school then getting a loan for that school is worth it because a lot of times you're offered a job as soon as you graduate and these trade jobs like plumbing and electrical jobs pay you 30+ dollars an hour.

89% of Gen Z, along with nearly 79% of young millennials, have considered an education path that looks different from a four-year degree directly out of high school. For millennials, that’s up 18% from 2017. (Gen Z was not surveyed in 2017.)

The average borrower now leaves college with about $37,000 of loan debt, up more than $10,000 from 10 years ago. And outstanding student debt owed by all borrowers reached $1.5 trillion in 2018.

You're probably look at $60,000+ to graduate from a top university. So ya makes sense to find alternatives where you are guaranteed a job after graduation from like a trade school or you find a job that will pay for some of your schooling. Also with the internet today you can pretty much learn anything if you put the time and effort into it and focus on developing those important people skills that they don't teach in college can benefit a young person going into an interview without a college degree because half the battle in every job is figuring out the best way to deal with people. So if you're good at that and willing to learn news things you should have no problem getting your foot into the door of a career job.

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/half-of-young-americans-say-college-isnt-necessary-2019-08-06?mod=mw_theo_homepage

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