Mike AndesFounder, Augusta Lawn Care and Homeworks · Founder of Homeworks and Augusta Lawn Care

you don’t need college DEBT to have a High Paying Job

20 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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Mike Andes argues that incurring large college debt is not necessary to obtain a high-paying job. He contrasts spending many years in college plus loan repayment (describing roughly a 15-year timeline to finish education and pay loans) with entering blue-collar work immediately—starting in entry-level roles (lawn care, landscaping, janitorial, roofing, fence construction), gaining skills through repeated practice, and potentially owning a business within the same 10–15 year span. The piece is advisory and emphasizes hard work and skill acquisition as an alternative pathway.

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A lot of people think that you need to go into hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt and go to college for four, five, six years in order to get a good job in America. That's not true. You need to be able to work hard and be willing to put in the reps. But you can absolutely make a living with blue collar work. Because if I go to college, I spend five years at college, and then I spend another five or 10 years paying off my student loans. I'm literally 15 years deep before I hit zero. And in those 15 years, I could start at the bottom of an entry level position at some blue collar job like lawn care, landscaping, janitorial, roofing, fen construction. And literally in those 15 years, learn the skills, learn how to run the business, and actually go own a company in the matter of this, those first 10 or 15 years. And furthermore.