4 year headstart on my career and 40k for training and investments early in life goes a long way.
Let’s put it this way. I dropped out of my degree program. My partner got their masters in the same field. I make more money, in a field that I enjoy, than my partner makes in their degree-adjacent field.
Okay I may just be the exception.
My dad has an MBA. He stopped doing business shit nearly 40 years ago, and makes more money running databases.
My brother just cleared a million dollars this year. No degree, self-taught programmer.
My other brother has 2 degrees, also codes for a living. He says what he learned in school has zero application to what he does today.
My sister graduated with a degree in industrial design, interned with Mattel and Hasbro… She does cloud application development now.
Out of all the people I know, I can think of 4 that had higher education than was relevant to their careers. 3 of them are Boomers, and the last one is my stepdad, who got his degree at a technical college on the cheap.
I ultimately decided to drop when I was applying for summer internships in my desired field, and multiple places told me they wouldn’t even look at me for an unpaid internship with less than a Masters. I quit that fall semester and saved myself 20k.
4 year headstart on my career and 40k for training and investments early in life goes a long way.
Let’s put it this way. I dropped out of my degree program. My partner got their masters in the same field. I make more money, in a field that I enjoy, than my partner makes in their degree-adjacent field.
Okay I may just be the exception.
My dad has an MBA. He stopped doing business shit nearly 40 years ago, and makes more money running databases.
My brother just cleared a million dollars this year. No degree, self-taught programmer.
My other brother has 2 degrees, also codes for a living. He says what he learned in school has zero application to what he does today.
My sister graduated with a degree in industrial design, interned with Mattel and Hasbro… She does cloud application development now.
Out of all the people I know, I can think of 4 that had higher education than was relevant to their careers. 3 of them are Boomers, and the last one is my stepdad, who got his degree at a technical college on the cheap.
I ultimately decided to drop when I was applying for summer internships in my desired field, and multiple places told me they wouldn’t even look at me for an unpaid internship with less than a Masters. I quit that fall semester and saved myself 20k.