Career Guidance

A four-year degree (bachelor's or applied bachelor's) will always work in your favor. It will give you more options and increase your earning potential. Even for the exact same job, a person with a 4-year degree will often be paid better than someone without one. For better or worse, the 4-year degree has become a standard requirement to gain access to most of the jobs in this country. Just take a look at some job listings and you'll see what I mean.

Pennsylvania has some very good state schools, and usually you can do your first two years at a community college and finish at a state university. Some community colleges are actually better than state schools for freshman and sophomore classes, because the class size is much smaller.



You sound like someone who might like one of the engineering disciplines, like electrical engineering. Engineering majors have to take several math classes. What kind of math are you studying right now at school? Do you like it? If you want, you can PM me and I'll give you some links to look at to help you figure out if engineering would be a good path for you.

Always wanted to be a paid escort for the older,wealthy ladies. I got into Hvac instead,not as rewarding$ but I have great benifits!

Originally Posted by FLimits

A four-year degree (bachelor's or applied bachelor's) will always work in your favor. It will give you more options and increase your earning potential. Even for the exact same job, a person with a 4-year degree will often be paid better than someone without one. For better or worse, the 4-year degree has become a standard requirement to gain access to most of the jobs in this country. Just take a look at some job listings and you'll see what I mean.

I completely agree. I don't have a degree because of my crazy delusions of grandeur when I was young thinking I'd be rich off some scheme and wouldn't need one, even passed up on the g.i.bill while in the military. If I could go back I would beat the crap out of my younger self for those idiotic decisions. Anyway, there have been times I needed a job and couldn't get one solely because I didn't have a degree, even though I qualified in every other way. It's frustrating when you see a COMPLETE MORON in a job that you would excel at simply because they have a degree. For example I had a friend that moved up the ranks in the construction biz (he's actually not a moron though) because he had a degree....in MUSIC! WTF does music have to do with construction...NOTHING!!!!! Sorry about the rant, I just wanted to second what FLimits stated.