| Okay, great example:
My friend, let's call him Nathan, is very intelligent. I'm talking top 5% of a very good private school. The guy was building hydrogen power cells and running lawn mowers off water in the 10th grade. Nathan would've got into any college he wanted here in Australia in almost any degree. However, he came from a very blue-collar family - his father, brother, uncles and grandfather were all in trades (very common in this area, big mining town) so it was just expected that he would go into one, some sort of engineering most likely. Our entire grade tried for two years to convince him to go to university with no luck. He finished Year 12 and went off to TAFE to learn a trade.
He lasted two years.
By the end of those two years he was so frustrated with the lack of a challenge and lack of intellectual stimulation that he dropped out. Luckily, he'd earned enough money to put himself through an engineering degree and he promptly went off to college for four years.
The point is, if you have the opportunity and a passion for learning more in a particular area, I don't see why you wouldn't want to go to college. Unless you have a certain interest in an area that doesn't require a degree, I don't see why you'd want to waste years of your life doing something you don't like just for a few extra grand in the first few years of your professional life. |