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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone have a kid who's heading right into the working world? [/quote]

Yes my kid turned down CMU and joined his older brother 2nd tech start up.  The first start up was acquired for 500M by another FinTech start up.[/quote]

Don’t you think they will regrets missing college later in life? Or that it may limit them socially?

Just curious. To many people, money does not trump all things.[/quote]

To many, that lambskin diploma and alma mater don’t mean much either. [/quote]

Meh.  I wouldn’t worry about going into the trades limiting my kid socially, but I’d worry about it limiting them intellectually. At its best, college teaches kids how to think critically, how to evaluate evidence and how to recognize logical fallacies.  People with those abilities are, in my experience, more in touch with reality and happier people.  Of course, there are a LOT of college educated people who believe any sort of nonsense, so it’s no guarantee. [/quote]  This  must be a white thing. I'm black and didn't go to college; my husband has a master's and is the first in his family to go beyond a high school education.  My best friend of 30 years  is an MD (with a very particular specialty) who makes a salary triple my own and my other friends are a mix of people with college degrees and not college degrees.  One of my kids is currently pursuing his master's and the other is still in high school but on track to go into a trade instead of college.    I don't understand the issue.[/quote]

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