Higher Education Goals to Consider
This can’t be an exciting time for kids as they will be returning to school in just a few short weeks. It seems odd to be getting to mid summer, but having to back to school shop already. It is easy to talk about the value of shopping local, but that is too easy so lets focus on the value of education in whole.
We have just seen new federal bills limiting student loans, yet unfortunately, we will still see kids going to a 4 year school and taking the max amount of loans for a degree or career path of jobs that are not in demand. Yeah, I get it, jobs should be enjoyable, but encourage young individuals to focus on fun careers that actually have an end goal or in demand career path as a cap stone. Can you imagine being $150,000 in debt the day of graduation then taking a job that will likely take you until you are 50 to pay that loan off?
You could easily go to Walters State or TCAT and get a 2 year degree today that will start your career in that $60,000-80,000 per year range without the student loan burden. One thing we can be assured of is that 4 year universities are such a big business, they are going NOWHERE. Why rush to borrow that money if you aren’t
sure what you truly want to do? There is no more of a defeated feeling than seeing your friends with a 2 year
degree owning their own business making 150,000 per year while you are in the 7th year of a 4 year degree
program to finish and hopefully start at $30,000 per year then needing a part time job on top of that to pay
those loans off.
Have those hard discussions with students in your life. We live in a world where 80% of the jobs require less
than a 4 year degree yet we still try to push 90% of students into these programs. Have the students failed or
have the adults advising students on potential careers failed?