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Is this normal? Shes 21 right now and has no plans of going...she tells me she thinks college would be a waste of time if she gets out and does something completely different. I agree there, but she can at least major in liberal arts, no???
College isn't for everyone. And not everyone that went to college ends up having a successful job.
My wife went to college and got two bachelor's degrees, yet I make more money than she does, and I dropped out of my first semester of community college.
Careers are all about how hard you work; you can always move up the corporate ladder without a degree. Now it's a bit different if you work at a drug company as a janitor (without a degree), for example, with the goal of moving up to lead chemist in the research department - that will never happen.
Can I just ask what percentage of Americans obtain degrees?
As far as I can remember, when I went to University in the UK it was only 2% of the population that graduated and only 1% with honours. Companies like IBM wouldn't even interview below a 2nd Class Honours Upper.
Going to university is an experience... unfortunately, emphasis is placed on the degree obtained at the end. I would not wish to go to college unless I was financially set well enough to really enjoy my time there... an intellectual environment! No job, so time to explore the city, the library, the celebrity lectures... And to be able to major in whatever liberal I wished, without the anxiety of... will this sort of degree end up paying out in the end... prob'ly not in the way you'd like... how many English majors, for instance, are now working at their original idea of where their English degree would lead. How many end up being teachers against their original dreams.