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Originally Posted by de4df1sh
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Most people go to school for credentials that will hopefully lead to a better paying job than they can currently get or have, right?
It depends. People getting two year associates degrees tend to do it for the job prospects as two year degrees are more focused on jobs. People getting four year degrees go for many reasons, but one of the primary reasons they go is because everyone around them is doing that. Yes, there's some abstract sense of "I need this to get a job" in the background, but they really don't know what they want to do for work, and they're using college to delay those types of decisions. And if someone else is paying for it, even better.
Second career students tend to be very specific about the degree they're trying to earn and the job they're in pursuit of after graduation. You don't strike me as that type of person given that you've only given the most abstract of reasons to go to college.
One of the absolute biggest mistakes that I think students make (especially the traditional 18-24 year old student going to school full time) is that they actually avoid talking concretely about jobs for much too long. They don't spend time looking for internships or talking to the career center to try to connect their degree to actual jobs that are available. And they don't take enough advantage of summers to either move faster through their education or get work experience (again, internships matter). Some are too focused on grades as if that's the thing that gets them the job, as opposed to taking time to develop soft skills and doing mock interviews and the things that have a much larger influence on their job prospects (as well as their prospects for advancement).
What do you know about your job opportunities where you are? Or are you thinking of going somewhere else? If so, what do you know about the job prospects there? How does your degree help you in those specific ways?
(I think there are lots of other reasons to go to college beyond job prospects, and those things include intellectual and emotional development, an opportunity to develop personal discipline, and explore personal interests in a way that you really can't do when you're working a job. But that's certainly not for everyone.)