Can you be Successful Without a College Degree

[5John]

      With the high price of college, many kids wonder if it is worth going to college. Kids are pushed with the fact that they will never be successful without a college degree, but is this true? There are several successful and wealthy people that do not have a college degree. Along with this there are many jobs that require no college degree, that pay better than jobs that require a college degree.

       Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates are just some of the very successful people that never received a college degree. Steve Jobs was the co-founder, CEO and chairman of Apple. When Steve Jobs died he had a net worth of 10.2 billion dollars. Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder of Facebook and the Meta platform, and has a current net worth of 47.2 billion dollars. Finally, Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and is currently worth 102.1 billion dollars. These men are just some examples of several people that didn’t receive a college degree, but still went on with their life to be very successful and wealthy. They did this by being smart with their money, and being patient with the process to success. 

       Many people who don’t receive a college degree become successful by inventing a new product or becoming an entrepreneur, however, you don’t have to invent something to be successful. People can work an ordinary job but still become very wealthy and happy. One job that fits this description is an electrician. Someone can receive the education they need to become an electrician by working with an experienced electrician or by completing a simple apprenticeship. This person can go on to start their own electrical company. However, there are risks to starting your own company, and the business owner must be careful of their spendings to make sure they don’t spend more than the income. Philadelphia Technician Training Institute explains that you can earn a six figure salary as an electrician with a lot of hard work and dedication. This goes for several other trade jobs, as they are in high demand, but not many people work these jobs. Other jobs that include high paying salaries without college degrees include a pilot, real estate agent, wind turbine and oil rig worker, and many more.

       All in all, it is possible to earn a big quantity of money and be happy without a college degree. It will take a lot of hard work and dedication though. If a student does not go to college, they do not have to worry about paying for college and can start making money right away. There are many examples of people who have become successful without a college degree, and they motivate more people to be like them. I believe that students should not be told that they won’t be successful without a college degree, for the reason that there are many opportunities to become successful and make large amounts of money without a college degree.

 

Do you believe you will be more successful with or without a college degree?

Do you think society pushes a college education, explain?

https://ptt.edu/blog/can-you-make-6-figures-as-an-electrician/#:~:text=As%20the%20world%20ultimately%20depends,of%20the%20electrician%20certification%20programs.

[3Kai]

I think that you can be successful without a college degree. I think that college could be helpful for some people like nurses or what not, but college is not needed at all. I believe that college is definitely pushed onto people. Our parents generation needed it more than us. We have so many ways of making money online and their is all the education we want online.

[5John]

I agree, college is the right path for some peoples plans, but for some it isn't.  You can not become a nurse without a going to college, but for people who are unsure what they want to do, they should not immediately think they must go to college.

[7ColtonS]

I beleive that you dont  have to have a college degree to be successful, becasue my uncle did not go to college and he is doing very well. I think that the society does push toward a college education, becasue they try to get kids do take some course in school so they go to college for cheeper and stuff like that.

[5abby]

I personally think that you can be successful without a college degree. I think that there are some kids that can go right into a job after high school and make a good amount of money to live off of. I think society definitely pushes it upon you, but I think trade schools are becoming more common.

[7Hayden]

Yes you can be succesful without a college degree.  You can attend a trade school or just go to work right out of college.  I have defiently thought about taking one of those routes.  I think that I will attend college but I will come out of college with close to $80,000 in debt.

[5John]

College is very expensive and causes several people to go in debt. Even if someone finds a high paying job that requires a college degree, they will then have to spend their earnings to pay off their college debt.  This is one of the unfourtunate things about earning a college degree.