Nearly one-third of the entire country has student debt. The total amount of student debt is approximately 1.75 trillion dollars.

The average amount of debt per borrower is about $29,000, but there are many more who have much more debt upwards of even $100,000 possibly even more.

Over the past 75 to 100 years, Americans have fallen for the notion that you need to get a degree in order to get a good paying job in the future. I do think that that used to be true and there are certainly still circumstances in which you do need a lot of education in order to do certain jobs.

Today, I think that a degree has become very unnecessary for many if not most professions. Many times, employers are more willing to hire you just because you have a degree even if the focus of the program was not even related to the job that you’re going to be performing. I know someone who got a job as a speech therapist because she had a degree in music. It’s not that they were related, it’s that she had a degree that made all the difference.

We live in the year 2022 we’re anything that you want to learn is available at your fingertips. Most of it you can find on YouTube for free.

Besides all of that, there are many well-paying jobs today that don’t require a degree, they just require that you not be a lazy bum. For example, an upstate New York construction company is offering high school students an opportunity to make significant money without them going to college.

Harrison & Burrowes has supervised the construction and rebuilding of 400 bridges with a workforce of 150 people. Chief Operations Officer Chris DiStefano spoke with “Fox & Friends’” Brian Kilmeade about the company’s offer to the students.

“We’ve been associated with the local BOCES program here, that covers three counties here in upstate New York,” DiStefano said, referring to the Boards of Cooperative Educational Services program started in 1948 by the state. “And we’ve been able to take in high school students that are juniors going into their senior year and give them 200 hours worth of work at our main office in Albany here. They get some hands-on experience and there’s opportunity for them to come on with us full-time after graduation.”

DiStefano explained that salaries at his company were tied to the prevailing wage rate system determined by the Department of Labor, thus employees could make between $65,000 to $75,000 a year plus another $30,000 to $40,000 in their pension.

But there are several options like this out there. I never got a degree. I’ve just worked my butt off for the last 20 years to get to where I am today. I firmly believe that if you are diligent enough to figure out what you want to do, pursue it at all costs, then you can do it, even without a degree. You just have to find a way.

Sources:
Daily Wire