College Is Worth Going To

College is Worth Going To
“I should have stayed at college” said by Ashley Duran. Ashley had her life set and organized after she graduated from Dessert Hot Spring High School; she would go to La Sierra University to major in criminal justice and stay in school until she got her master degree. After she got her master she would join the police academy to get trained, physically and mentally in order to become a police officer. While in school, her classes were becoming too challenging for her and she couldn’t keep up with assignments, one day Ashley didn’t show up for class and she didn’t show up the next day or the next day, Ashley dropped out of school. A few weeks later Ashley got a job as a cashier at McDonald’s. A month later, she quit …show more content…
She saved enough money in order for her to go to school and get a college degree. All of her money problems went away since she got her college degree. Ashley now works as a security guard instead of a store clerk. She is now making $1038.00 weekly rather than $712.00 weekly, a $326.00 difference. With the new amount of money that Ashley makes weekly, she now has a few hundred dollars saved after paying bills. In spite of her difficulties, Ashley was able to go back to school, get a college degree, and needless to say make more money than she did before with having no college degree. There are many people out there that believe going to college, getting a college education, and getting a college degree is a waste of time, that is not what I believe, going to college, getting a college education, and getting a college degree is not a waste of time because it sets you far apart from the people who are just high school graduates and college …show more content…
As said by Andrew J. Rotherham “college graduates earned more and are more likely to have a job in the first place”. As we expanded our knowledge the more likely we are to get a job in a higher profession. “College graduates are more likely to be in jobs within better benefits, further widening the divide” as stated by Andrew J. Rotherham. Adding on, it is easier for college graduates to get a job that is going to benefit them in many ways. For example, a college graduated is the manager of a clothing store and a high school graduate is an employee of the college graduated. The benefits of the college graduate being the manager are the college graduate will learn how take responsibility, making sure each employee it doing what they should be doing, and keeping everyone on task, as to an employee who doesn’t have many benefits but they get to learn on how to keep everything organized and not a huge mess.
There are some people that believed going to college it’s not worth it, the reason they believe this is because they believed college is a waste of time and that it is possible to get a position in your career choice with no college education. Another reason they believed this is because they believe it is possible to earn the same amount of money as a college graduate by just being a high school graduate. They also believe this because they want to believe with no matter