Is it better to go to trade school or regular college? This day in age everyone pushes students to go to college to achieve the “American Dream” however, college is not for everyone. During the Pandemic everything stopped except the trades. Everyone needs some type of manual labor to be done for them and it will never go away. At the end of the day it is your choice to go to college but most degrees lead to a lot of debt. I feel like the trades is a better route to take. It opens up more opportunity in my opinion without having to put so much into your education. I think I will find that in today's world it's because there is more opportunity to make even more money by learning a trade then going to college. I picked this topic because it's Personal to me in what I want to do in the future.
Background
A trade school can offer students a fast, affordable path to well-paying careers. The bad part of trade school can include limited career growth, financial aid, and flexibility¨. The average College graduate debt is 31,820 while the trades college debt is only 10,000 and most workplaces will pay for your training. (15 Reasons) So the benefit of going to trade school is low debt, high wages and less time in school which leads to
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Also you are more likely to get started on your career early, saving more money in your retirement. A lot of people might be a lot happier working in a skilled trade than sitting behind a desk. The funniest part is that you're likely to make more money in many of those jobs than you could ever make in an office. You'd also have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the college debt crisis affecting the majority of millennials. College is expensive. Over the last few decades, the cost of a college degree has tripled, completely out of proportion to standard inflation. The more time passes the more expensive college gets and the higher the pay for