<p>I think you might be looking at this the wrong way. You can’t just tell your daughter, “You should want to go to college” and have her magically see that perhaps you’re right. If you force or pressure her into going to college immediately after high school, I doubt that she’d have the motivation to do as well as she could. But if she gets the opportunity to see what life without a college degree is like for a year or two, perchance she’d reconsider, enter college, and try hard. </p>
<p>At any rate, if the tattoo program is reputable and she’s talented and passionate about it, she might even do very well as a tattoo artist and be happy with that career choice, even if it doesn’t rake in hundreds of thousands a year. Is it necessarily wrong for her to persue a non-traditional career, as long as it doesn’t preclude the possibility of college in the future?
While you might have different goals and priorities than she does, she is (presumably) an adult and it’s her life. Even if the tattoo artist dream is just a stage, better a year or two used to explore that option than a lifetime wondering “what if?”</p>