10 Options To Consider Besides College

10 Options To Consider Besides College. Lets face it, college is not for everyone. There are numerous careers that do not require a four-year degree. Unfortunately many have been taught that success is passing matric and joining your friends at University. But that means you’re designing your life to satisfy a process so mindless that there’s a whole industry devoted to subverting it. The important thing is to get out there and do stuff. Instead of waiting to be taught, go out and learn. Here is a list of other things you can do after your high school let down;

1.  Work A Real Job

Go out and see what the working world is really like. Take a year to work full-time and earn real money. By working full-time at a fast food joint, or as a waiter, or doing landscaping, you’ll learn invaluable life lessons. You’ll learn about customer service, about bucking up and working even when you don’t want to, about budgeting your income, about balancing life and work. Those are things that many men don’t learn until they’re out of college. Once you’ve had a taste of it, you’ll appreciate life more than college.

2. Internship

Find an internship. You might think I am crazy. How do you find an internship without a degree? Many companies don’t require a degree. Even if they need one, you can put on a show and prove that you’re worth it. It’s especially true in the creative industries. Think of writing, designing, programming, video editing, photography, and marketing. These industries thrive on creative work.

3. Enroll In Online Courses

Some are free; some do not cost and arm and a leg. It is nothing compared to five or six figures in debt that you will accumulate in college. These learning experiences will have immediate feedback and results. You will understand what you are passionate about, what not and how it’s like to work with real clients. If you don’t like something, you can always withdraw and start over.

4. Volunteer

These days’ volunteering is something for people to put on a college application or a resume; it’s always a means, never an end. So maybe spend a year volunteering out of high school, you’ll probably become a much better, more understanding person for it. Places to volunteer at locally include, The Red Cross.

5.Travel

Traveling allows you to experience the world. You could fall in love with another culture and decide you want to move there. If all you can think about is getting out of your town and exploring some other part of the world, then traveling may be for you. Traveling to one or more foreign countries is a great way to experience other cultures, learn more about yourself, and equip yourself with cultural knowledge to apply in the global economy.

6. Try The Arts

If art is your passion,  you should strongly consider not attending a 4-year college. Getting an associate’s degree as a backup plan is a good idea, but then just put everything you have into your craft through deliberate practice, and consider moving to an art-friendly city, or one of these other top cities for artists, where you can find peers and mentors that can help critique and improve your work. After getting a degree, you’ll be strapped with debt, and will you have really advanced your craft beyond what you would have anyway?

7. Learn A Trade

Even if you don’t pursue your chosen trade later in life, knowledge accrued during a year of learning massage therapy at a beauty school tricks or some book keeping skills will always be helpful and can save you quite a bit of money in the long run.

8. Start A Business

All you need is the passion, the drive, and confidence to make it all happen. While it’s certainly true that more small businesses fail than succeed, you’d be hard-pressed to find an entrepreneur who didn’t learn invaluable lessons even amidst their failures. Do you have zeal for something you created as well as good people skills? If so, perhaps taking the steps to start your own business is a better idea than spending four years in college.

9. Learn How To Play An Instrument

Music can be very healthy for your emotional life. In a recent research where people where asked how they think playing their instrument plays a part in how they feel. Playing their instrument provides an outlet to express their feelings and it is a way to let loose your creative impulses.

10. Join A Sport

Sports are good for learning accountability, dedication, and leadership, among many other traits. Putting it all together by playing a sport is a winning combination. Watching your hard work pay off and achieving your dreams brings about tons of self-confidence. Also, sports will improve your fitness and weight goals. However, they also encourage healthy decisions such as not smoking or drinking and offer hidden health benefits.