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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp  (full list)

As you can see, the best undergrad degrees are science, tech, engineering, and mathematics.  Economics is the only degree in the top 20 outside of STEM.

They should hand this out in the freshman year.  Of high school.

[img]http://www.payscale.com/chart/121/Top-10-College-Majors-That-Lead-to-High-Salaries-2011-v1.0.png[/img][/quote]

haha! Pretty funny, [b]no degree[/b] and my w2 was 165K in 2011 and it is a very rare week that I crack 40 hours.[/quote]

Jig will be up soon unless you own your own business[/quote]

Not really.  No degree required when you are in sales. I'm in inside sales and the only reason I don't step outside is that I don't want the pressure. I'm fine making in the mid 100s, don't need the extra hassle required if I want to break into the 3's.

I can even go 1099 if I want, but I prefer the consistency of being a w2.[/quote]

You must be so proud.[/quote]

Not necessarily proud, but certainly finacially comfortable and debt free.  Getting started in the professional world when I was 20 gave me a huge leg up on the real estate market. Bought my first home at 22 when you could get a house for under 200K and now at 36 I'm mortgage free thanks to a succession of homes/rentals over the last 14 years of a beautiful DC real estate market. Frankly for me, I considered college a waste of my time, especially since there was an absolute ton of money to be made in telecommunications back when I was first starting out.

I think sometimes when one does not have a degree to fall back on, you end up sharpening your entreprenurial skills and (at least for me) tend to work that much harder to prove yourself, however at this point in time, I’m already known in my industry so job mobility is easy.

I don’t discount having a college degree, I expect my children to finish college, but there is much more to financial success than a degree that  you certainly don’t learn in college. This is networking, competence, an ability to get along with people, an ability to read personalities and adapt, and an eye for opportunity. In addition to my children going to school, I’m also want them to learn how to work well with others and to always be adaptable.
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