Why A College Education Is Not Worth It

From the time you have an understanding that you have to go to a big building and listen to what a random stranger says for years on end, it is already too late. You have been caught in the dreaded nightmare called school. You go on year after year learning but then the question pops into your head and you ask: What comes next? Teachers and parents say a college education comes next. But many people of all ages, not just naive young adults, disagree saying this: just look at all the successful millionaires who did not get a college degree. Or, college graduates are getting employed in jobs that do not need college degrees. Is a college degree is the key to the ¨American¨ dream? Yes, there are people who believe that a college education is needed

In conclusion, a college Education is not actually worth it.

We go through our whole kindergarten through twelfth grade career preparing for college, by eleventh grade we end up with a year long cramming for the SAT or ACT, depending on your curriculum, just to end up with a mediocre score and the unlikely chance of being accepted into the big college of our dreams. Many people end up going to college just to find out they wasted anywhere from $15,000 and up on just one semester of college and all other necessities need to survive college. Only realize that college was not for them or they just did not go to college.There are many, of which, who are successful that did not get a college degree, such as, Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA. This man has the net worth of $23 billion and did not get higher than a college education. Or Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, with the net worth $54 billion and a Harvard college dropout. Also Leonardo Del Vecchio, who’s net worth is $10.5 billion, for creating the eyewear Luxottica, he never went to college but has received four honorary degrees from various Italian universities. Or Roman Abramovich, who has acquired the net worth of $11.2 billion by taking part in

Throughout the world many jobs that are passed off lightly in the U.S., to our teenagers, is actually a serious taken job in other places. For example, the job of waitressing is taken very seriously in places like France or Italy, they appreciate and respect that people will put up with others that are not always grateful. To show our gratitude the check has the tip put into it to ensure the waiter does get paid on your behalf. Their minimum wage is generally higher too, than our $8.90 an hour(Minimum wage). In which they are paid $10.51 per hour in places like France(What is). Where jobs that are undermined in America are actually taken seriously in Europe like waitressing or owning a restaurant. It’s part of their culture being open to small jobs because they know that the little people are how the big people get their reputation from. For instance waitering in France is very serious and being rude to a waiter is looked down upon. Businesses have politeness policies for this reason but still waitering is not like the high school job gigs over here. If you waiter over there you need to be serious for five years or more. Other places are like this too with small businesses, like Italy. In Italy it is very respectable to own a restaurant or vineyard. But here in America you are laughed at for trying to open a small business. College is the gateway