Does anyone know what would be a more useful college or university to attend, a culinary school, an art school, or simply not attending university or college altogether?
I'm looking for answers in terms of quality of life, salary, and ability to sustain the same job for a long time or the ability to find a similar one.
Which would be better; culinary school, art school or not going to college in terms quality of life?
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Take a paper and mark two columns, "grad" and "non-grad". Assume both live in equivalent housing and lifestyle for the first four years. Calculate or estimate school costs and loans, rent, income, and so forth going out to ten years or so after graduation. Form your own conclusion. When I did this it was clear that a college degree is not worth what it costs. It was possible to work your way through college up to about 1960, but not now.
Get a simple job and a cheap pad within walking distance. That is so you don't have to waste your money on transportation. Save half of everything you earn. Yes, half. To start, keep your savings in gold or silver coins which you do not store in anybody else's vault. (IOW hide them at home.) Spend your evenings studying investment books at the public library. When you are smart enough then you can make other investments. If you earn ten bux an hour and save half, in only ten years you will have A HUNDRED THOUSAND BUX not counting interest or capital gains or paper profits: only principle. There is no other plan that will give you a net worth above zero in only ten years. And there is no school that will teach you any such thing.
Does this plan work? Andrew Carnegie worked five years, saved his wages, and then put it all into a tech stock: telegraph. You might have heard the name. His hobby was building concert halls and libraries.