Should I quit college for trade school?
You're both correct - in part. In your parent's generation it was the case that simply having a bachelor's degree in anything was sufficient to get you "a good job" and set you into the middle to upper middle-class. That's no longer the case. In you grandparents day and before it was the tradesmen that had a secure position but they labored under supervision of those "college-boys" so they are the people that set your parent's expectations that "you need a college education to get ahead". Your generation (and your children's) is going to find that a bachelor's degree is no more highly regarded than was your parent's high school diploma. That means you have to have it to compete but it's not enough to move ahead. Too many people have one for it to have much value and so many people have one that it's now essential for advancement. So what you need is 1) formal education 2) experience 3 trade/vocational skill -- miss any of the three and you're kinda stuck wanting. Get all three and you'll be a happy (financially) camper. So, cut your bachelor's courses to minimum full-time (12 hours) and either get some work experience or go to trade school quarter-time or half-time on top of that schedule. Want a job in the lowest paying industry in the US? That would be food service. And the only way they move up is experience. A cook with a PhD in Physics earns the same as a cook that dropped out of HS. You don't become "chef" by education/courses - you work up. And the bottom people are paid really low (minimum wage) money.
Should i go to trade school or reg college?
Hi, i am 18 and in high school i use to cut soo much for many years. however, i was enrolled in a ged class for 2 months, and last week, i found out that i passed. my guidance counselar filled out alot of paper work for me, gave me a CUNY college choosing book, and said come this tuesday with your dad's income tax so i can fill out your requisted college choice+ financial aid. Some kids next to me said that they were gonna go to trade school. Does any1 know know what that is? Neyways.... i am not look for major courses like math, phsics, or those tough ones, i just want to maybe go to college for 2-4 years and get a decent degree. my interests is probably something easy that can be done with cpu's (like programming or w/e) cuz i usually play cpu games alot and use it often. , nothing too hard. tho can ne1 give me some recomendations on where to go and tell me what trade school is ? thx for your answers. thx.
I am dropping out of college to go to trade school, should I withdraw from classes or fail them all?
It's your choice but you should keep on with your classes, pass them. and get your four year completed marketable degree. Then you can go to trade school if you want to. The decades old high school diploma requirement in the labor market United States is being REPLACED by the four completed college degree. If a recession hits and parts of the job market get affected negatively, you're wise to have a four year college degree to get a job depending on the what parts of the job market the recession shuts or slows down. An unknown number of people will be laid off and will be looking for other jobs and there will be competition for few jobs still existing, if that's the case.
Was dropping out of school a bad idea?
Which school?If we’re talking high school, then definitely. You’ll sign away EVERY job opportunity that there ever was. A high school degree is basic.If we’re talking college, it depends. College can open doors, but it’s not guaranteed that you’ll be let through any of them. It just gives you the best possible chance to get in the frame.Maybe thirty years ago, when you dropped out of high school, you didn’t shut as many doors as you risk doing now. There were opportunities for people who dropped out of high school because technology in industry hadn’t evolved far enough to make machines do a lot of work, so there were opportunities for people to do it. Now, with computer scientists and engineers trying to mechanize everything, high school dropouts are getting less and less options and are putting themselves at risk for eternal poverty.But here’s what I don’t understand. I can get why you’d drop out of college. There are a lot of financial and family reasons I can see as to why you’d do it. But high school? High school is free! There are more high schools than colleges and they are everywhere. You can easily go to high school and have a job if you family is struggling and it is easy to be the best in such a small community of people as opposed to some of the larger college campuses. Why would you drop out is a better question. I have no idea. If you’re getting bullied, tell someone or change schools, but that’s about the only real challenge that high school students face. Every other problem has easy solutions.
Is it worth dropping out of college to go to trucking school?
The advice of your peers and family should be considered to be valid and correct for you situation. It seems that in one year more of community college could get you a two-year college diploma and a certificate to prove yourself in any numbers of jobs depending on your initiative and persistence. Now, the degree from a community college may also open a door to a bachelor's degree to a four-year college or university. However if you chose not to do that, you could work above minimum wage in any industry, business, elementary or secondary school in you area. That would mean you have multiple options for continuing in college or getting a job. The choice is yours. Good luck.
Drop out of college..?
I'm confused... You want to drop out of college completely, or you just want to drop your classes for this semester and continue going to school next semester? The thing is... Once you stop the ball rolling on financial aid, and your student loans come due, then it's very difficult to get the ball rolling again if you want to go back. So I'd really advise against dropping out completely. Also, you say you don't want to work at McDonalds, but without a college degree (even with a low GPA) your career options are going to be extremely limited. Even an Associate's Degree from a community college or a trade school is going to be well worth the tuition, because without that piece of paper (diploma) you're pretty much going to be doomed to working in the service industry. If you're really miserable at a four-year academic college, then you ought to transfer to a community college, or to a trade school that will teach you an actual job skill.
Should I drop out and attend a trade school?
I am currently a student at Uni of Colorado in a BA degree program with major in history. It is a 120 credit program and I have approximately 90 Credits completed. My major is history because I figured I could ace an easy degree while attending ROTC and have a job out of college. Unfortunately, After nearly three years in the AFROTC program, I was told by my adviser in the cadre that I would not be going further in the program (might be because of my family's history of criminality, although I have never been arrested). This leaves me with a lot of anger as you can imagine but also a deilema. I am smart enough to understand that 70%+ of High School graduates go to college and that the market is saturated with worthless BA degrees such as history, so instead of blowing more tuition and finishing I was thinking of starting a career and taking maybe welding classes at a community college instead of finishing the two semesters I need to get my BA. What is everyone's opinion on this? I have no student loan debt, but realize I am not getting any younger and would like to stop relying on my parents and get my life together (I will be 24 in two months, i started college late). Thanks.
Why don't more people go to trade school?
I grew up the son of an electrician with a grade 9 education. My father got his GED only so he could write his electrical license. He started working for himself as an electrical contractor at 22, worked hard his entire life, and the last thing he wanted was for any of his sons to work as hard as he did.I grew up playing sports and loving math. I didn’t even know how to change a fuse growing up even though my father was an electrician. I went to university to be a doctor, because that is what you were supposed to do, and ended up dropping out after 4 years with no degree. My father needed someone to work for a couple months so I decided to take the work, and that was 12 years ago. I now find myself a licensed plumber and licensed electrician. Didn’t see that coming!I also took a job after starting my apprenticeship as a “Post Secondary Ambassador”. It was a part-time job I could do while training to be an apprenticeship. My role was to deliver workshops at high schools around my province explaining the different avenues for education after high school. These options were University, Apprenticeship, Community College (where trade courses are often offered) or Private Vocational School (trade schools). It is quite scary how many kids were going to university as the default option!Here are some of the reasons I believe trade schools aren’t always considered as an option:Parents pushing them to universityUniversity is marketed as “higher education” while trade schools have no prestige. Plumbers don’t get as many girls as lawyers and the parties in trade school don’t quite match up to frosh week at university.Everyone is following their friendsThey go to university to figure out what career they want to pursue, where as with most college options they need to choose their occupations right out of high school. Don’t know what you want to do? Spend your future earnings at university!They don’t realize that you can take a 4 to 10 month course and start making money right away, instead of waiting 4 years to get their university degree. You are nearly licensed and set in your career when many people, like I was, are still partying with no plan.Kids are pushed to university if they are “capable” of doing well there, not based on what they want to do. All of the bright kids that are more likely to get post-secondary education are pushed towards university, even if they don’t have any interest in being there.