Care to elaborate as to why? I started college right after high school, but found it just wasn't for me. I enlisted in the army and developed my IT skills. I realized that unless I further my skills, I was going to be stuck within a certain salary range (although that hasn't been the case yet). Ideally I'd like a 6 digit salary, which isn't as far fetched as it sounds. I'm still working on my skill set and going to college. I'm a sophomore now and I look back at all the mistakes I'd made during my first year of college. I think I'm more prepared now that I'm older, but we'll see.
One in 50 smoking cigarettes is awesome to awesome to here. I smoke but it's a worthless habit. The rest sucks but seems like the predictable result, when you have to stand out in markets that are over saturated before you even begin college and sink yourself into debt while doing so. I felt that way when I was going to school. I'm probably just trying to support being dropped out for two semesters though. Also power in believing in yourself to stand out probably combats some of that.
It seems as if that is the only good news reported here, yes. What markets do you refer to?
I'm probably gonna edit the post since I'm probably not knowledgeable enough on the topic to speak so strongly about it. I've considered/gone to school for; emt, nursing, journalism, and environmental science, having been discouraged from all after researching job placement rates or what the typical jobs ends up being. I'm petrified of working an office job for the following 40 years after graduation and I don't think academia is my thing ether, totally wonderful for some people just not my fancy I guess. It's easy to generalize the unknown though especially coupled with the fear of wasted time and the knowledge of not having failed (for lack of having ever tried). I won't go back and edit for the sake of continuity in the discussion but I'll take back what I said as being an impulse rambling thought. It's just intimidating to feel like your choosing your entire life path, even though I know you can switch of up.