I didn't need to go to college and get a degree to learn that. I learned it at home and in high school.
Cynically, maybe, but most of what I learned in college was how to use buzzwords to sound like you know what you're talking about, even if you don't (and I got this from the profs)...
The other important thing I got from college was ... time. Time to consider what I really wanted to do in life before I got bogged down in it and woke up at 35 wondering what happened?!
Once you enter the workforce and especially if you start a family.. time can go back “very” quickly... Plus, the opportunities to meet a high-quality spouse in college alone might be worth it. I look back on all the girls from high school .. I “thought” were so amazing at the time and laugh. Even an average girl in college was far and away a better potential wife than any of the girls from high school. In hindsite.. it made everything that I had gone through in highschool seem silly. I was like.. wth was I thinking? lol
You know all those young women on magazine covers, in pageants, ect... and you wonder where they are in real life? well... they are in college just waiting for you to meet them (the good colleges). And if that’s not good enough... women “far” outnumber men in college... which shifts the odds even further in our direction. The “trick” is to choose a “good” yet conservative private university. And yes, there are still conservative universities.
Yep, so did I. I learned the buzzwords in college to bs my way through the “subjective” classes. Because back then and even moreso now, those classes are subjective. My favorite college professor taught me that! He was a Libertarian who homeschooled his kids (in a college town, Penn State, back in the 80s). He homeschooled them because the education system sucked then and does now for the most part.
Like you, I didn’t need K-12 school or college to teach me to “follow through, show up, be on time, be organized, overcome challenges, work with others, and the ability to learn in general along with many others.” I learned that at home, in grade school, and in high school, in life.
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