The Importance Of A College Degree For A Successful Life

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I have so many goals in life that I would love to accomplish to be able to have a easy going successful life. I would love to be able to have a family in which I would have a few kids which were hopefully boys. I want to be able to have a comfortable living in which I can take care of my family and make it to where they can enjoy life and be able to have anything they want and do anything they want to do. Also nowadays in this world you have to go through college to make it anywhere in life to be successful in most cases.

The way a college degree would help me is by the importance of it. The only way I can become a police officer like I would like to is by getting an associates degree. The police academy does not care

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