Everything You’ve Been Told About College Is Exactly Wrong

Students, what is it you want?

I’m guessing it’s a good job or a business of your own doing fascinating and satisfying work. But not just any job or business. You’re looking for a career that won’t be threatened with extinction as companies turn to AI and automation to lower costs and eliminate the problems that come from dealing with us pesky humans.

You’d like to be able to acquire the knowledge and skills you need to have that great career and make a lot of money without spending four years of your life and loading yourself down with a massive amount of debt.

If that’s you or you’re the parent or friend of someone who fits that description, Read on.

Look, if you’re passionate about going into the hard sciences, then, yeah, college is really the only way forward. I wish you the best and you can stop reading right now.

But, for the rest of you, and you parents and mentors out there, there are alternatives to traditional schooling that are better, quicker, and orders of magnitude cheaper.