My oldest son went one semester to a four yr. university and hated it and quit. He took some specific classes in a field he wanted to go into at a community college and did fine. He’s a police officer and loves it.
My daughter wanted to be a nurse and went to college and loves working ER.
My youngest son went a full year on a baseball scholarship and hated college. He said why waste money when I don’t know what I want to do and he quit and went to work as a trained butcher in a Food City grocery store and is assistant manager and enjoys it and makes good money.
I went to about 3-4 colleges before I went and got an Associates degree. Company I worked for hired a new CIO who said I couldn’t do my job without a degree or certification in spite of running circles around those that did so I went back and got a four year degree. Company said I wasn’t promotable unless I had a Master’s so I got that. Thankfully, all my degrees were paid by my company so no costs outside of books.