While I was growing up, the expectation was that my siblings and I were going to go right to college after high school. That was just the path our parents laid out for us.
Even my dad, a carpenter, insisted that a post-secondary education was exactly what my siblings and I needed in order to be successful. Vocational school was never even an option.
Inevitably, all four of us did exactly what our parents wanted — we graduated high school, kept up good grades, and obtained those high-level degrees that would lead us on the path to success.
But that "path" didn't come without its price. All four of us currently find ourselves buried in insurmountable debt, and only two of us have managed to find full-time jobs in our field while the other two are struggling to keep their heads above water.
So we have to ask ourselves: is college really the right "path" for all of us?