College: a prestigious institute of higher learning. A place where some students go after high school to earn a degree and eventually qualify for a quality job to support themselves and their future families. But is it worth it? There are some people that are under the impression that college is just a place where people go for tens of thousands of dollars to party, have sex and end up in debt. Receiving a degree is just essentially a really expensive piece of paper.<\/p>\n
When you look at a list of some of the richest people from the United States you\u2019d come across names like David Geffen, who owns the animation movie company DreamWorks; Micky Arison, who started Carnival Cruises and owns the professional basketball team the Miami Heat; Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. All have a net worth of $5.5 billion, $4.2 billion, $7 billion and $17.5 billion, respectively. Not only that but they have one other thing in common: they all either dropped out of college or never attended in the first place.<\/p>\n
Now after looking at some special cases let\u2019s look at the statistics. Here are the average yearly wages per education level for people who work full year jobs.<\/p>\n
No High School Diploma $25,000<\/p>\n
High School Diploma $35,000<\/p>\n
Some College, no Degree $39,500<\/p>\n
Associate Degree $44,000<\/p>\n
Bachelor’s Degree $55,500<\/p>\n
Master’s Degree $70,000<\/p>\n
Doctorate Degree $96,000<\/p>\n
With a minimum wage job someone working in the United States would make $15,080 annually. Everyone, even those who don\u2019t even graduate high school, on average, make more than the yearly minimum wage. That sounds great statistically but then you have to add $13,500 per year for every child and realize that living off of $25,000 even up to $40,000 a year is difficult for Americans.<\/p>\n
Next, I would just like to make it very clear that if you graduate college you will undoubtedly have a better chance at a financially stable life than those who don\u2019t. Now I\u2019m sure you\u2019re asking, \u201cWell what about all the people who got rich and didn\u2019t earn a college degree? Why can\u2019t I do that?\u201d but to that I say, sure, there are successful people that didn\u2019t need college but I hate to break it to you, those people were incredibly driven and had extremely innovative ideas. Sadly, as much as I hate to say it, the majority of people are not like them and won\u2019t make nearly as much in their lives. Unless you\u2019ve already got some sort of high paying job lined up, employers are looking for people with credentials. And that\u2019s exactly what, if nothing else, a college degree will give you.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
College: a prestigious institute of higher learning. A place where some students go after high school to earn a degree and eventually qualify for a quality job to support themselves and their future families. But is it worth it? There are some people that are under the impression that college is just a place where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":6656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[109,768,767],"class_list":["post-7131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","tag-blog","tag-hayes","tag-mason"],"yoast_head":"\n