Is college worth it?

College is not for everyone. This is true. There are plenty of people who make out fine in life with great salaries who never attended college. This is fact. But out of the general population, what percentage of people who do not attend college really make it far up the economic ladder?

I attended college in 2001 as a high school senior. After graduation, I decided to live life and put off higher education for a while. And so I did. I worked for a year and a half before returning to college, and even so, I was going part-time for 2 semesters. After working 2 and a half years as an office administrative assistant, temp office aid, and customer service representative making $10/hour, I realize that I did not want to live the rest of my life that way. So I went back to school.

I will be finished with school in 3 weeks and graduating with $40,000 in student loans. Was it worth it? I cannot tell you enough how GLAD I am that I got my head on straight sooner than later. Even though I will have to pay off student loans probably for the next 5-10 years of my life, I would not do anything differently if I could go back in time.

Through dedication and hard work in school, I accomplished many successes that I have never before. I am not even out of school yet but I already have a job with one of the Big Four prestigious public accounting firms in the nation. My hourly salary will be triple that of what I was making just 5 years ago before I went back to school.

So if you ask me, "is it all worth it?" I am going to have to say, "h*ll yeah!" [Sorry, just overly passionate about my feelings.]