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Split this into sections. The people I grew up with, the ones that didn't go to college, other than 2 of us, all work in bars, deal with food, walmart, city jobs, or knocked up. The people that went to college, left the shit hole we called home, never returned, and now all appear to live a decent life, making far more money.
Outside this business, I only know 3 people that do well without a college degree. All 3 are laborers, one works for himself - most of the time, the other two just have decent jobs working on machines at factories.
Current friends (outside industry), I'm the only one without a college education. Two of them make more money than I do, one makes more than most of us combined together.
If you include my industry met friends, most are not educated but many are. They are all the same type of people, self driven, the best kind - educated or not.
I do think having a degree gives you an edge, it for sure can and does get you jobs that you for sure can not get without a degree. You can't even get the experience to get some jobs without a degree. Plenty of jobs that us "professionals" do not qualify for, no matter how good we are or how long we have been doing it.
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