Personal Narrative: Going To College

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About a little under a year ago I had questioned a strong belief of mine that I had my whole life; going to college. I had started to question this because my father had went to college to study business and he now sells insurance. I thought to myself, why would I need to go to college when I could get my license to sell insurance straight out of high school. It didn’t make sense to me on paying a lot of money for tuition when I could always just start a career and be pretty successful out of high school. I started having these questions run through my head because a while ago my father had worked for a company named Delta where he was in the business department. By him getting his masters degree in business it would obviously help him. However

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