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With tuition fees getting higher and student loans putting a heavier toll on future Masters and Doctors, more and more students choose to seek full-time job opportunities after high school, without enrolling into college. Most of the time, those students are from families with a below-average income and no chances of getting a scholarship.
However, no matter how harsh the circumstances and your current financial situation, you definitely must seek ways to pay for college studying. Because in future you will not only be able to pay off the costs but also earn 30% more money than those hitting the labor market straight after high school desk. Plus, the choice of career paths is way larger, while prestige and self-actualization come in the package too.
According to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, high school graduates could hit amount like $30,000 per year. In the meantime, a Master degree holder can easily count on $50,000 and a Doctor on $70,000 annually, which is almost twice as much. In addition, without a college degree you’ll hit the top wage in your profession pretty quickly, while a person with a diploma is able to seek positions in top management. Even in case you don’t want to become a boss, you definitely want more money on your bank account. And earning a degree is the best way.
Working positions requiring a degree holder usually go with a solid package of benefits, such as paid vacation leaves, seek leaves, presents for your kids on Christmas and holidays, financial rewards and bonuses, pizza and free beverages in the office, proper social security and insurance, etc. Needless to say, without a degree chances are high you won’t be getting any of those. Only 30K a year, 11-hour working day, one holiday and no promotion. You don’t want that, do you?
With a Master’s or better a Doctoral degree, your professional growth is a just a matter of time. Depending on your talent and amount of hard work you put in, promotion, career growth and prestige will come, sooner or later. In the meantime, after high school your choice of job opportunities will be quite limited, most of the time with either little or none at all professional growth options. And if there’s any career development, the money which goes with it won’t be too grand.
We’re living in times of recession, people lose jobs every day. Now, who will an employer will fire in the first place – a person with a degree or person without any? Right, the first situation is 99% most likely to happen. Therefore, holding a degree you can feel more comfortable in your current workplace. Additionally, in case you’re fired, with actual experience and a degree you’ll find an opening in a month or two. Without a degree, you’ll be visiting an employment office quite often, sometimes for half a year or more until a proper opening occurs.
We all have desires, career goals, professional aspirations and childhood dreams of buying a Porsche. To fulfill these goals, the money is required two times of three. And what is the best path to earning that money in a legitimate way? First, you earn a degree. Second, you apply for a good job. And third, you make the dreams happen. And in the world of working after high school, there’s no time for dreams and reveries of a sort. Unless you’re going to turn the world upside down with your inventions, like Steve Jobs did. But let’s face it, what are the chances?