Is US college worth it?

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

The point of collage that I found is to give you an edge compared to other people that are trying to get the same jobs. It's not a guarantee that you will get a high paying job straight out of collage unless you have connections. The point of getting degrees and certificates is that it allows the employer to get an understanding of what the person they are hiring might know as they can easily go to the website of the degree and see the course list. But if you don't have that, then the employer would need to assume so the alternative is experience which is hard to get when you are just starting out.

So it really depends. I would say that compared to when I had no working experience vs me getting my Bachelors, I had significantly more interviews when I got my Bachelors. That never meant that I got the job even post interview however as those that had more experience than me obviously got the job. But I found that it is one less obstacle that I had to go through. But if you are not in a good financial situation and you can't afford to go to collage, then the power of the internet might be a lot more use to you as you can find how to do almost anything these days.