To me, it is worth getting a higher education but be mindful of where you go and also keep in mind school is not for everyone. You end up spending so much money and going into debt to learn pretty much the same things you can learn online within a few weeks.
They also will put you in classes that are not even needed for the course and this will end up making you waste money in my opinion. They will con you in like it is a work at your own pace but it is not when you have classes after classes, deadline after deadline.
You can supposedly work with your schedule but when you are the head of household, working, making sure the kids have what they need, making sure you are doing all you can to help attempt to better you and your position and then you get hit with assignments due here and here and they have to be done on time and cannot be late. If you have an emergency, you cannot just drop everything and go, you have to contact the school, and the teachers in hopes they understand and will work with you on your deadlines and turning in assignments without missing points or failing.
If you happen to withdraw from the school, some schools will charge you for it and send it to creditors in which you think dropping out is going to save you from having to pay, it doesn't. I have been hit with multiple different bills from two colleges just because the college was not for me and I wanted to move to a different one that has the actual programs I wanted even though I was told it was not going to effect me and I was not going to have to pay out of pocket for withdrawing, that is not true at all.
A lot of people with degrees who have worked hard for them, often times they do not even get into their trade and career. A lot of them do not work their dreams and have not met their goals. A lot of them had to go get retail jobs, restaurant jobs and any other job that would hire them because their dream job either was not hiring or was not worth it or they could not even get into it for one reason or another.
They spent and are spending all of the money trying to get themselves into a better position and their dream job to help change the world. They studied hard to get that degree just to get a slap in the face.
College is not for everyone and apparently you do not need a degree because the degree is not going to help you as much as you think it will.
If you want to learn a new skill you can take coursera courses, Sophia, Skill share, Linkedin Learning, Skillup Coalition which is good at helping find jobs and train you and learn new things.
