re: Is anyone else not pushing their kids to attend college?

If you have a set path in a trade you're interested in, then college isn't for everyone, and I totally get it.

But, it is crazy nowadays how many jobs require bachelor's degrees where it would seem to me that a bachelor's degree just isn't necessary for the work being done.

It's even crazy how many jobs that are not very high-paying that even require a Master's degree nowadays.

So, if your kid is on the fence about going to college or not, tell him/her to go spend a summer working in retail, driving rideshare, working at a restaurant, and then figure out if this is the life that he/she wants to live, because almost any office job is going to require a bachelor's degree at the very least.

With that said, having worked in higher ed for years, it was interesting to me the number of students who it seemed didn't want to be there, yet were still sticking it out.