minnesota where not by one thousand one hundred seventy six percent during the same time period that annual median income has only grown by three hundred thirty one percent and minimum wage by one hundred forty federal i feel very scared about being in that right now the only debt i have is my car which is going to be paid off in a few years at three and i'm going but i definitely feel worried about going into debt for school it's just going to be a lot more money than me now because i don't have much of a career plan because i'm not sure how i'm going to pay that money students increasingly find themselves under pressure to attend college directly after high school this is a testicle likelihood of higher lifetime earning potential leads many parents and counselors to advocate college as the best post high school option however with the global economy rapidly changing many recent graduates are finding themselves and a worse financial position on their counterparts who skip tire education while student along bourbon has drastically increased high earning positions for recent graduates have not unemployment and i underline it remains high for graduates possessing a bachelor's degree for economic reasons many young people have been forced to move back in with their parents many have also opted to take not degree work our positions in the service industry and an attempt to pay off their loans and i mean it's hard to feel like an adult when you still live at home where you were a kid and you still you know i think it's really hard to feel like you're an adult until because i do have friends i have a friend who bought his own house and his own car and didn't go to college just went straight to working and it's kind of hard to so look at  situation and look at my situation to wonder you know i did the right thing by going to college because as you know you go you continue to get your education and it's like right now  are all becoming popular alternatives to the traditional far here education as the current generation of teenagers prepares for adulthood they'll have to seriously consider if a college education is still worth  maybe try to figure out what you want to be like because people people didn't tell me i cared to figure it out or another like oh you'll lose your girl you'll change your mind a whole bunch of times and i kind of think that you know some of my friends didn't do that and they did figure out what they were going to do and they're just been doing back and now they're getting a better situation so i don't know i think not to say that you can't change your mind because yes we can and probably will but if you have a clear idea of this is what i should study you call it was maybe this major could be beneficial for us jobs i feel i got lucky and found something i like and was interested in it pretty well pretty good at it but i feel a lot of people just kind of go without thinking about it and then they have bachelors of arts degree and a whole lot of that and they're not sure why they got that and college used to be a sure sound investment and whether or not people want to argue that say a degree is priceless or your education is so important i feel those that feel like that's