Depends on country and what college and what field, in many cases in the US, no, even if the degree is good from a good college, the market for it is saturated beyond repair. Sadly best thing you can do is actual research before committing.

Yeah, I understand but I just need one more year to finish the career , and now I'm really not feeling like if I want to continue and to be honest I was kinda forced to follow the career

But I feel that would be stupid to stop with just a year left

Most colleges, in the Us at least, allow you to stop and resume said course later on as you simply have to accumulate enough credits. So it's not a waste, per se, it just depends.

I think that here too but I probably should finish it cuz I just need another year to finish, thanks for the advices

I was in the same boat as you a couple of years ago. I forced myself to keep going, signed up for another year, and ended up not being able to constantly hold that motivation. Couldn’t make myself do the work, failed my classes, wasted all that time. I also had no idea what sort of job I’d want to do when I finished, so I might have not liked where that path led.

Anyways I ended up changing majors to something else with significant overlap and finished up a degree. Haven’t used it yet though, despite having a decent job now. I wonder if I should have just cut my losses and taken a year or two off to figure out how the world works and how I want to live in it.

So, as for you, do you think that if you decide to continue that you’ll be able to power through? And is the end goal a job you’ll want to do? If not, how much will this degree help you get a job you’ll like?

I think I can handle another year of college but I probably won't do major stuff, and about the goal I'm not sure about the job I want ,maybe I would like to experiment ? I don't have much experience with jobs in a formal way

Having education above high school is generally going to help you, but some fields are very niche. Best thing to do is look up degrees for colleges and tech schools you are interested in and see what those jobs normally pay plus how expensive the schooling is. If you can go to a local school and live with parents or something, that cuts down on costs a lot.

From my personal experience, my degree has been worth the money easily, but I went into hard sciences and math, which not everyone can do. If you get a more general/easy degree, it is worth less generally.

I probably should have done that before choosing a career but my dad told me options and I had to choose between those
Maybe I was too young to make the right choice, I didn't even thought well about what I wanted to do

It really depends on what field you're going into.

I understand u-u

As said many times, it depends on what you're thinking about doing, since not everybody needs to seek post secondary education. Another big thing to look into is trade school (also sometimes called vocational school). There's a lot of good careers in different trades, lots of hands on work and depending on where you're from might even have grants.

I spent 5 years as a barber deciding what I wanted to do, but I had 0 school debit coming out of it and made okay money that helped fund my current schooling. A lot of people now seem to push that you can't do anything without committing years of your life to education, that isn't the reality of things. Make sure you know what you're doing and the field you're getting into is the right one for you if you do college, as we've all heard stories of people that rushed into it and hated what they do.

Also if you want to talk more about this, please feel more than welcome to reach out. I've been down both paths personally, so I can talk from experience.

Hmm.. not sure how those are called over but one of my friends went to something like that and I have to admit he learned more than me

Huff , For me was going straight into college as soon as i finished school ,with just some careers to choose from cuz my dad wanted , I didn't really question it much in that time

Yeah it's more or less the school where professional regulated careers like mechanics, plumbers, electricians, and a lot more depending on your country (like barbers where I'm from) go to school. Normally it's a lot more hands on apprenticeship vs. all theory, so it can honestly be really nice to do and you learn a lot on some jobs that can be highly paid.

Yeah I was really tempted to go to college after school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do, so I went to trade school and became a barber since that was the family business for me. I do feel our cultures tend to push people into college or Uni as if it's the only path, sadly when we've very young and haven't even really experienced work or much of the world. This knee jerk reaction will work out for some, but I feel as though for most of us, we need more time and to get some life experience.


Absolutely think about trade school, they are jobs you can be proud of being and not need college or Uni for. 90% of college and Uni is random BS to milk extra money out of you, I feel like I'm being actively scammed learning about quite literally Marxism and the foundations in the 1800s that are disowned by the field to try and get into a mental health field.

No.

The only college degrees worth having are the long ass ones, or if you're planning on getting into government work where one is required.

College is, for most people, a complete scam RN.

Would recommend a trade over college. There is an over saturation of “professionals” and not enough blue-collar workers. Become a halfway decent plumber or construction foreman and you can make as much as a degreed office job

Those aren't very popular over here ,but they really seems like a good option
I wish I choosed it some time ago, but didn't know about them when I was younger x.x

If I’m being honest, only if it’s something that’s like with having to do with law or medicine or something like that. Other than that we live in a day and age where it’s not WHAT you know it’s WHO you now

If you're pursuing a career that absolutely requires a degree, then yes, it is worth putting up with to get one.

But if I'm honest, I only valued two or three of the classes I actually took in college for what I learned from them, and it more often than not felt like the many minimum requirements they imposed served no purpose except to justify a professor's existence.

I learned a lot of things that have been helpful more times than I would have guessed, but I also had to put up with some truly horrible professors who did nothing to hide their contempt for their students, who apparently thought it was something to be proud of that one in three students failed their class, and in one instance, who didn't give a shit enough to even show up half the time.

The absolute worst of them all was my guidance councilor, whose signature I needed to apply for the classes I wanted to take, who refused to give it to me unless I scheduled and sat down with him for guidance counseling, for which he was only available for a couple of hours a week. And of course, by the time I actually went through all of that crap, the classes I wanted were full, and then if I wanted to sign up for any of the remaining classes, the worthless load wanted me to do all that shit all over again.

I finally decided it was time to drop out when I started to seriously consider breaking into his office and taking a #2 on his chair.

I sincerely hope not all colleges are like that, but one way or another, college is going to be where people stop caring whether you're learning or not. So unless you already know what you want to do with your life, and you absolutely must have a degree in order to do it, I would recommend at least waiting, maybe take a year or two to save up, dabble in a trade, etc., until you know for certain.