I have discovered that many people feel the same as I do. Why do we tell our kids coming out of high school to go back to school? For one thing, most teens don’t even have a clue what they want to do with their personal lives, let alone their careers. We are putting ourselves as parents in massive debt or inflicting massive debt on our children. Imagine the pressure this puts on your child to complete a course only to find out that he doesn’t even want to go through with it. Some just go ahead and finish their studies. Then when they’re out of school, they hate what they’re doing or have trouble finding something they hate to do.
I really believe that companies and schools should have internships where students have to work a full year before they can apply for any kind of funding. I know they have in-school internships that are very successful, but that has already eliminated young adults who have already dropped out of school. I think this would allow families not to go into massive debt until they know what they want to do. In a perfect world, they might be working to get enough money for their student loan.
The world is changing around us every day, but the debt seems to be increasing more and more. Schools are getting more expensive. I would love to see debt-free training programs for everyone, even the unemployed. Most of the unemployed are people who finished school and didn’t end up in the careers they thought were their dreams.
I’ve seen it time and time again, once they get hit, many don’t recover. There are all kinds of reasons, having children early, family tragedy, health, or even just losing a job. They look at their debt and just give up. They decide that they will just go work at the local grocery store or factory, earn some money, but never be able to achieve their dream goals as they grow up.
I think the world is changing and I think more and more people are discovering what debt free offers. Picture this, children who have passions that they love. Video games, cell phones, apps for everything, sports, well, you get the picture. What if someone wanted to be a doctor? What if you did a debt-free training program and earned the money you need for education using the passions you love? How many more quality doctors or specialized people do you think would be successful if they had the money to pay for it without going into debt?
There are only a select number of people who are truly successful in their fields upon graduation from school. Maybe there’s a young adult who couldn’t finish school who could be the greatest doctor or scientist of all time. We will never know. I think if we offered other options for people to get debt-free training programs, especially for the unemployed, we would be much more successful at getting kids through school and not getting buried in debt. Some will pursue their own dreams and go on to have their own businesses and may go to school later in life. But at least they had a choice.
