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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor  Just a little battle I'm having with my 18 year-old nephew who's a smart kid, has the resources, but is taking "a few semesters off to work at Pizza Hut and hang out with his unmarried 22 year old friend with two kids".
Out of the people that "took a break" after high school before attending college, very few actually went back.
Not that it's impossible because it isn't, but a lot more improbable than many realize. |
That must mean a lot to you. Good luck on that.
If I'd gone to college when I was 18, I would have flunked out. I found myself right out of high school with no plans (had enlisted in the Marine Corps, and blew out my knee my senior year - they couldn't take me) and through another set of circumstances, had to work full time. I couldn't hack night school.
Older and more mature now, I plan to go back. And for what it's worth, both of my parents earned their degrees in their 40s - Dad did an executive MBA at 40-something, Mom finished her bachelors and masters degrees in her 50's.
The point of telling you that is that yes, it's less probable on his return, but it *is* possible. Hopefully, the kid sees it your way. In retrospect, yeah, maybe I could have done both, but I didn't. I didn't have many regrets, not really, until recently, when I realized that I wanted a change of career. It put a lot of things into perspective.
Tell him to email me and I'll tell him all about how it's possible to not go, and then list off the numbers of doors that are closed to me without a degree.