00:00what's happening guys it's shane here
00:01and in today's video we are gonna be
00:03going over eight alternatives to getting
00:05a college degree college has been
00:07getting more and more expensive and the
00:09value of a college degree overall has
00:11been going down especially over the last
00:13few decades and so for that reason there
00:15are some very viable alternatives to
00:18college and these are other choices that
00:20you should absolutely consider now it
00:22really is going to be person to person
00:24whether you go for a college degree that
00:25can be a great choice for some people or
00:28if you go for these alternatives and
00:30hopefully this video will help you
00:31figure out which path that you should go
00:33down so i'm gonna be going over eight
00:35alternatives and then at the very end as
00:37a bonus i'm gonna be including a ninth
00:39one that is sort of still a college
00:41degree but i think it's something you
00:43should definitely consider if you don't
00:44want to go the traditional college route
00:47and we are going to get into it right
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01:19some of these are going to be pretty
01:20obvious but definitely still worth
01:22discussing so number one on the list is
01:24going to be trade school now there are a
01:27lot of really good trades out there i've
01:29done several videos on the highest
01:31paying trades and the best trades etc
01:33and i think when people picture trades
01:35in their head they just think okay like
01:37a plumber or something right and
01:39that is a good job especially in certain
01:40areas but there's a ton of other types
01:43of trades as well so for instance dental
01:45hygienist is a trade that you can go
01:47down that's not something you would
01:48probably picture in your head another
01:50one is medical sonographer somebody who
01:52creates those images that are inside of
01:54a person's body now when you look up how
01:57much trade careers make on bls which is
02:00the bureau of labor statistics uh
02:02they're pretty good but a lot of people
02:04would think maybe they're on the lower
02:05side but what i found researching this
02:08over and over again is that for some
02:10reason bls under reports how much trade
02:12careers actually make and the reason for
02:14that is likely because a lot of the
02:16transactions are actually in cash and so
02:18the way that it's reported to the
02:20government is probably a little bit
02:21different than if you get paid at a
02:23normal job and all of your payments are
02:26either a check or they go right into
02:27your account but i can tell you for sure
02:30from firsthand experience knowing a lot
02:31of different people including my own
02:34trade careers make a good amount of
02:36money and it's especially good if you
02:38start your own business number two on
02:41the list is going to be very closely
02:42related and that is doing an
02:44apprenticeship so depending on what
02:46state you live in uh the region you live
02:49in uh whether you are working union or
02:52non-union and a bunch of other different
02:54factors you might go to trade school or
02:56you might also do an apprenticeship and
02:58apprenticeships are great because you
03:00know trade school isn't too expensive
03:02but you do still have to pay you know a
03:04decent amount of money however with an
03:06apprenticeship you're actually getting
03:07paid to learn how to do the career now
03:10you're not going to be getting paid as
03:11much to somebody who's like a
03:12full-fledged tradesperson but you're
03:14still getting paid to learn the career
03:16and it's on the job training that's
03:18pretty awesome so you could legitimately
03:20at like 18 years old start your career
03:23whereas everybody else is going through
03:24like four years of college going into
03:26debt maybe they're going to trade school
03:28for a few years and so you get to start
03:30living your life right away the number
03:32three option on this list is going to be
03:34joining the military now i did a whole
03:37video on all of the benefits the pay etc
03:40the perks that you get for joining the
03:42military so i'm not going to go over
03:43that in detail here but you know the
03:45perks and the benefits are very very
03:47good and besides the perks and the
03:49benefits a lot of the time especially
03:52depending on the path that you go down
03:54in the military you're literally going
03:56to be getting paid to be trained for a
03:59high-paying job and i talked about this
04:01in that video where a friend of mine
04:02that i went to school with he actually
04:04joined the military and he basically you
04:07know worked really hard for i think it
04:09was like two or three years or so
04:11and he worked as a nuclear technician on
04:14a submarine and so he was basically
04:16being trained during that entire time
04:19for some really advanced stuff and he
04:21was able to land a six-figure job right
04:23after leaving the military now the
04:25military also gives you the option to
04:27pay for your college later on so if you
04:29decide that you know what later on you
04:31do want to go to college you're going to
04:33have that option as well so the military
04:35could of course be a temporary thing
04:36like three or four years or so where
04:38you're basically making some decent
04:39money and also getting paid and then you
04:41have a lot of perks and benefits or you
04:43can decide to make it your career and
04:45that would probably involve you being in
04:47the military for about 20 years or so
04:49but the cool thing is at the end of
04:51those 20 years you can pretty much
04:53retire right so if you join the military
04:55at 18 years old you can pretty much
04:57retire at 38. so there's definitely a
04:59lot of perks and benefits to joining the
05:01military not the best choice for
05:04everyone um you know there's some
05:06downsides definitely but it is something
05:08for you to look at and for you to
05:10consider number four on the list is
05:12basically a modern career okay and i'm
05:16going to explain exactly what i mean by
05:18this there are many careers out there
05:20that 20 years ago didn't even exist i
05:23mean think about it people hundreds of
05:26thousands maybe millions of people are
05:28now working as like social media
05:31managers right they're working in social
05:33media and social media really didn't
05:35start until 1997 and it didn't get off
05:38the ground until myspace maybe and even
05:40then you likely probably wouldn't be
05:42making in full-time income from it so
05:44think about it most of the people who
05:47are now working in social media and it's
05:49literally their career they're making a
05:50full-time income from it social media
05:53didn't even exist when they were born
05:55and this is more and more common with
05:57all kinds of different industries and
05:58fields where a lot of these jobs are
06:00going to be popping up in the next 5 to
06:0210 years where you didn't even know it
06:04existed when you were born you didn't
06:06even know it existed when you were a kid
06:08and so there's no way that colleges and
06:10formal education in general is going to
06:12be able to keep up with the speed of
06:14innovation so there is a ton of
06:16opportunity for people to get into these
06:18modern careers learn skills that you
06:21really can't learn anywhere else you
06:22definitely can't learn them in college
06:24and basically live kind of an
06:26alternative lifestyle when it comes to
06:28your work life now along the same lines
06:30number five is going to be
06:32certifications this is basically where
06:34you get training for maybe like a month
06:36or two and at the end of that training
06:37you get a certificate now a lot of
06:39certificates out there are going to be
06:41completely worthless so you do have to
06:42do your research on this but a lot of
06:44the time you are going to find
06:46certification programs in jobs where
06:48there is a ton of demand right there's
06:50so much demand that they're not able to
06:52fill it and so therefore they come up
06:54with certification programs now i think
06:56this is going to be more and more common
06:58as basically what i was talking about
06:59before happens the speed of innovation
07:02is so fast that colleges and other types
07:04of education simply cannot keep up with
07:06it you know college used to have
07:08basically a monopoly on education when
07:11you talked about getting educated after
07:13high school and college those were
07:15basically the same things and now
07:18there's just so many different
07:19alternatives and colleges are either
07:21gonna have to drastically change the way
07:23that they teach things or they're going
07:25to get left in the dust in many ways so
07:27one example of a certification that
07:29google themselves came out with was it
07:32support for instance they also came out
07:34with a certification in data analytics
07:36project management user interface design
07:39and android app development and the
07:41reason they came up with these
07:42certifications is because they found
07:45that there just simply wasn't enough
07:47people who had these skills and there
07:48was a ton of demand so they were having
07:51a lot of trouble themselves hiring
07:53people with these skills so what did
07:55they decide to do they basically opened
07:56their own like free university so they
07:59can train people in the skills that they
08:01need and there's honestly a lot of
08:03really good certifications especially in
08:06a lot of the time it's actually better
08:08in many ways for you to get a
08:10certification than to go to college for
08:13technology degrees that doesn't mean
08:15going to college and getting a tech
08:16degree is a scam by any means you're
08:18definitely going to still be able to get
08:19a job in most cases but in some cases
08:22especially if you're someone who's good
08:26getting a certification might be the
08:28better option number six on the list is
08:30going to be online training and
08:31specifically i'm talking about websites
08:33like skillshare udemy teachable as well
08:37as other online courses this is
08:38basically where you can get trained to
08:40learn certain skills online it's much
08:43cheaper than university it's also a lot
08:45more flexible and in some cases it can
08:47train you for a job and in other cases
08:49they'll actually train you to start
08:51basically your own business i do have a
08:54course on teachable it's basically the
08:56college 101 course how to get the most
08:58out of college with the least amount of
08:59time effort and money it's been doing
09:01super super well i've been getting
09:02amazing results for the clients and if
09:04you want to check that out you can see
09:06it down in the description below but
09:07yeah online training i have benefited
09:09tremendously from it myself
09:12i do have to say there are a lot of
09:14courses out there that are not worth the
09:16money they're overpriced they you know
09:18in some cases they're actually designed
09:21for you to not get results so that you
09:24if you want to kind of like learn how to
09:26spot those types of scams you can watch
09:28channels like coffeezilla but i'm a firm
09:31believer that online training online
09:33education is going to change the world
09:35in a very similar way to the written
09:37word right books when books came out
09:40when the written word came out that
09:41changed the entire game right because
09:43you were able to learn from people who
09:46might have lived like a hundred years
09:47ago right you were able to learn from
09:50people who were hundreds or thousands of
09:52miles away in the same way that books
09:54changed the education game forever i
09:56think online education is going to be
09:58the same way and the reason for that is
10:00because it essentially incentivizes
10:02people to teach important skills that
10:04they have mastered and this is just
10:06incredibly invaluable like for instance
10:09i took graham stefan's youtube course
10:12and i took a couple other youtube
10:13courses and it really helped me start a
10:16youtube channel i mean i don't know if i
10:18would have been able to do this on my
10:19own if i didn't take that course so yeah
10:21like i said before it is kind of the
10:23wild wild west right now when it comes
10:24to courses a lot of scammy ones out
10:26there you kind of have to learn how to
10:29recognize whether it's just one of those
10:31courses where they're just going to try
10:32to upsell you on a bunch of stuff but
10:34online training is big and it's only
10:36going to get bigger in the future it's
10:38completely unstoppable number seven on
10:40the list is going to be work your way up
10:43type positions now this could be
10:45something like just getting a normal job
10:48within a small kind of like mom-and-pop
10:50type company and then you slowly just
10:52work your way up into higher and higher
10:54positions you do a really good job and
10:56eventually you're basically just running
10:57the company for them but it could also
10:59be a position like a salesperson it's
11:02basically like entry-level sales you do
11:04a really good job and so maybe they put
11:06you in charge of the sales team you do a
11:08really good job there so maybe they make
11:09you a manager do a really good job there
11:11and then next thing you know you're like
11:13an executive or something along those
11:14lines now it can be pretty difficult to
11:16do this it is also pretty risky you're
11:18going to have to start off at the very
11:20very bottom usually but for the right
11:22type of person you work really hard you
11:24do a great job you can definitely work
11:25your way up within a company and good
11:27things can happen number eight on the
11:30list is of course starting your own
11:33business right so starting your own
11:35business uh very difficult your chances
11:37of success after 10 years is about 30
11:39percent so it is kind of a high risk
11:42high reward type of move it's also not
11:44going to be the right choice for
11:46everybody some people just have the
11:48right mindset to start a business and
11:50others kind of just want to go to their
11:52job do a nine to five
11:53and get their paycheck every two weeks
11:55and that's totally fine but if you do
11:57have the right mindset to start a
11:58business this can be a really really
12:00good option as well so owning your own
12:02business affords you a lot of freedom
12:04right so if you've got a wedding one of
12:06your friends have or something you don't
12:08have to ask the boss hey can i take this
12:10time off you are the boss so you can
12:11just go take that time off but at the
12:13same time especially with some types of
12:15businesses and i know this from personal
12:17experience you might have clients
12:20early hours in the morning and you have
12:22to figure out whatever problem
12:24that they have at that time and solve it
12:26you also might be in the middle of a
12:27date or something and one of your
12:29clients has an issue or something breaks
12:31or something like that and you have to
12:33cancel it and go fix it so there's a lot
12:35of freedom in certain ways afforded to
12:37starting your own business however it
12:40also is going to be more responsibility
12:43and more stress likely in some ways at
12:45least and more risk so it really just
12:47depends on the type of stress and the
12:49type of responsibility that you want but
12:51to be honest there is more opportunity
12:53than ever to start your own business
12:56again you know the speed of innovation
12:58is happening so fast and because of that
13:00there's just so many opportunities that
13:02pop up where just nobody is taking
13:05advantage of it and you can start a
13:06business there and you know find a
13:09little niche and make really good money
13:11with it and i've said this many times
13:13before and it probably sounds like
13:14overly simplified but honestly business
13:17is just all about practical problem
13:20solving you want to find a painful
13:22problem that a bunch of different people
13:25have and then solve the problem for them
13:28that's really all business is now number
13:30nine and this is going to be the bonus
13:35this is technically still going to
13:36college but you know there are many
13:39different ways to accelerate college to
13:41where instead of four years maybe it
13:43takes two years or in some times
13:45even less than that so one university
13:48for instance that i think is really good
13:49for certain degrees is wgu it's western
13:53governors university
13:55i'm not sponsored by them or anything
13:58i do have several friends who have went
13:59there and they have very good things to
14:02say about it uh it is uh basically one
14:05of the only respected online
14:07universities and yeah there is videos on
14:10youtube you can look it up of people
14:12graduating with degrees in like one year
14:14so it basically is self-paced and if
14:17you're somebody who's super motivated
14:19and you want to take a bunch of classes
14:21you can knock out an entire degree in
14:23two years and sometimes even less so
14:26yeah wgu can be a great option it's also
14:28not that expensive compared to most
14:30colleges out there and there's a lot of
14:32other different accelerated programs and
14:34ways to cut your college time down as
14:36well so for instance you know i got a
14:39doctorate in five years and nine months
14:41usually that takes people eight years to
14:43get the same degree and i was able to do
14:45that by using a bunch of different
14:46methods and basically just cutting a few
14:48classes here and there but there's other
14:50people that have taken it to the extreme
14:52where they graduate with a doctorate in
14:54like four years and i've made lots of
14:56videos on this channel about how to do
14:58that so if you haven't done it already
14:59go ahead and check those out but i hope
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