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Hi um can I please get advice?
Hi I just wanted to ask should I go to college if I already know what I want to do and it doesn't involve college? And my family is forcing me to go to become a teacher nurse or doctor and I don't want to do that... What should I do?...
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I am studying Hospitality Management and I want to become a wedding planner. Necessarily, you don't have to go to college, but I felt going to college would give me more of the experience that I needed :)
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This depends quite a bit on what you know you want to do. It might be a great idea to ask for some advice on how people got started in the work you want to be doing.
Is college still generally a good idea, for most people? Absolutely.
Is it probably a good idea for you? Without knowing what it is you want, yeah, I'd say the right program at the right school probably does exist that would help equip you for nearly anything you want to do.
You shouldn't allow your parents to push down a career path you know you don't want. You just wont be successful if the only reason you are doing something is because they are making you do something.
But you do need also need to be realistic and take a good hard look at your goals and how to achieve them. Some further education after high school will be a part of the vast, VAST majority of people's goals. You need to find out what you need for yours.
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I agree with the other posters here, about going to college if the chance is handed to you because someone else is paying for it. i have alot of friends who had to pay their way through and dropped out have way through because it wasnt what they thought it would be, and they were not prepared mentally. they ended up with alot of debt and still no degree.
You should also remember that those who have jobs they love feel that their jobs dont feel like a job at all! = )
you have a long life ahead of you and theres no reason why if the chance is given for you to expand your horizons that you shouldnt! its always a good idea to have a back up plan like the others here have said.
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I sincerely wish I had not gone to college. I didn't finish, and I knew from the beginning I was burned out. All I ended up with was debt.
As for you family "forcing" you to go...are they paying for it? If it's a free ride, I say suck it up and take the opportunity. You'll regret it later if you don't. Even if whatever you want to do doesn't require a degree, it's always nice to have one. You may change your mind later about what you want to do.
I lucked out and knew what I wanted to do before I ever left high school. I still do it, and get paid well to do so. But what if something changes in the industry and suddenly my job is no longer required; or at least not in so much of a capacity? I have no backup plan. If I were to move somewhere that didn't need my services; well, I'd better open my own arcade and hope the community will support it. My fiancé is a teacher; she can be employed anywhere. I have a job where in a town of about 100,000, there are only 5 people I can think of who do what I do. Not exactly in demand.
If they just want you to, but aren't paying for it, they cannot force you to do so. If that means having to move out, so be it. I'm a big proponent of moving out at 18 anyway.
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No matter what you want to do in life, if you have the opportunity to go to college, I believe you should take it. However, that doesn't mean anyone should force you study something you don't want to.
Let's get to the issue of attending a college first and then move on to the family thing.
First of all, you may have something that you want to do but just because you want it doesn't mean that it will always work out that way. So, keeping your options open is always a good idea. Getting a college education, even if it is in general studies, will help you do that. Second, college allows for a period and experience of social growth and maturity and a change to gain some insight into the "real world" if you will. I can't stress the importance of this enough.
Now, as far as you family pushing you to a specific field goes, the final decision has to be yours. Your family members don't have to live your life or go to your workplace or job everyday, you do. While I assume they want what they think is the best for you, it is your life and being that you are the one who has to live it, you have to do something that you can live with.
Sure, your family may be upset if you stray from the path they want you to follow. But, any real family will eventually come around and will either embrace or at least accept your decision here.
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My answer should be YES as in todays job market you cannot truly succeed without some type of advanced schooling or training.
Okay that sentence is about as clear as mud so I will explain. The jobs available to the non-college graduate or the person who has not gone to a technical school for training in a specific career which could be bathing from Culinary Arts to Truck Driving, will find themselves almost shut out of the job market. Even those typical jobs once thought to be the domain of high school graduates, the fast food industry are being taken by College graduates because the job market is so tight.
Now you say you know what you want to do though you haven't said what that is. IF you want to be an Certified Auto Mechanic, a Hair Dresser, Computer Technician these are all positions that need technical training which you will not get in college. Going to many of the technical schools that train you for these position do earn you college credit which many colleges will accept if later you decide you want to get a degree in a certain course.
In this case no you should not go to college you should go to the Technical School that will give you the training you need to do the job you want. I also know for a fact if you wish to be a licensed tradesperson; plumber, electrician HVAC, these trade groups all run training school sanctioned by a local community college. BE the a union or non-union school you earn college credit for what they teach you.
What I'm saying is if you are going into a professional trade or Technical school; make sure that what you are learning is backed up with college credits. This way later in life if you do decide you want a degree or need a degree for a better job you have a good start towards one.
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