Julie's Argumentative Essay: Is College For Everyone

Is College For Everyone
Eighteen-year-old Julie was told all her life that if she wanted to become successful then she would have to go to college. Julie knew she wanted to become a dental hygienist one day, her close family and friends continually told her that only through college she would become a successful person in her career choice. However Julie didn’t know if college was the right choice for her even though everyone expected Julie to go to college, she had multifold of doubts about it. Julie personally thought someone can become successful in more ways than just through a four-year degree.The debate whether everyone should go to college constantly spikes up in conversations. Plenty of people have the impression that the only way you

For instance, training programs which can get done in two years at most if aiming for an associates degree or one year or less. It all depends on the area of work one wishes to do. Earlier I mentioned Julie and how she wanted to become a dental hygienist. If Julie didn’t go to college and instead chose to do a training program or a certification program of some sort, she would've accomplished her schooling in two years. Julie would earn a median salary of $70,210 right when she entered the working field (Dental Hygienist Career And Education Tracks p.4). In another article called How Much Does Dental Hygienist School Cost, it states the “ Medium: Associate's Degree Average $4,600” (p.1). This demonstrates that if you took the option of not going to college and instead did a certification program/training program it would take less time, save you money and reward you with a comfortable yearly pay. That brings me to my next point, usually with a four-year degree one would have to work up to achieve a higher pay. Take the average teacher for an example. In Oregon a teacher just beginning earns an average of $34,302 a year, a beginning teacher with a master’s degree earns $48,285 a year and as they progress their overall average of their yearly pay comes down to $57,321 (Teacher Salary Information, p.2). Compare the average pay of a teacher and the average pay of dental hygienist. The teacher probably went to college for four years, if not more and most likely paid an excessive amount of money depending on where he or she went to college, maybe around $31,000 because let’s just say he or she went to a private college. Now the teacher earns an average of $57,323 a year. Whereas the dental hygienist went through training programs / certification programs which took two years at a minimum and