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Should you go to college if you don't know what you want to do?

Asked by Aesthetic_Mess (7894points) March 5th, 2014

My good friend is going through this crisis.

She is about to graduate high school, and has absolutely know idea what to do with her life. She doesn’t have anything she’s really passionate about and wants to study, and she doesn’t want to spend time in college if she doesn’t have a focus.

I don’t want to tell her to go or not to go, because I know that college can help you find interests, but I know that she does not want to get a “useless” degree in English or Liberal Arts though that is what she is interested in. She is worried about the economy, and how difficult it is to find jobs even for college grads. She doesn’t want to come out with debt if she can’t get a job to pay it off. I guess she’s really questioning the worth of college.

Should a person go to college if they don’t know what they want to do, or does not have a clear career path for themselves?

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