Drewyboyo Posted February 28, 2019 Posted February 28, 2019 (edited) OSBot not really the place to ask for life advice obviously, but wondering if anyone here has experience with a year gap after highschool or going straight to college. There's so many publications recently about people being overwhelmed with student debt and being unable to find a job with their degree. Is there a point in hunting for internships/working way up a job ladder before attempting college or just take the almost essentially free price of some community colleges first? Hoping for some insight from anyone who has taken a year gap or didn't and glad they didn't. edit: I graduate in like 2 months, and already hold a job in technology I was hoping to use for a reference somewhere else. Held two jobs now for experience and not leaving highschool without job experience. Edited February 28, 2019 by Drewyboyo
Turkoize Posted February 28, 2019 Posted February 28, 2019 See this is a tricky spot. Around me there are a lot of places that offer hiring and training on site for skilled labor jobs, stuff like construction and fire alarm maintenance that don't really require a lot of education. If you're adept at a profession and want to do it for the time being then you should. However a lot of jobs in other fields require degrees now so it seems like you'd need to at least do community college before anything else. Also a lot of medical entry level jobs can be acquired with an associates degree or med tech / radiology tech jobs if that's your boat.
