Trystan Trenberth tells his teenage kids to consider a gap year before college to find what they actually care about. He points to Steve Jobs as a college dropout who succeeded anyway, and argues that life experience and practical work can be worth more than rushing into a degree.
I mean, my two kids, they're 17 and 19 now, and I've said to them for years, I'd love you to go to college if you choose to, but try and have a couple of years out in the world first so you can find your passion in something and go and study something you're really going to benefit from studying and be passionate about. Or just go and enjoy life because there's plenty of ways to make more money and be ahead of the kids that go to college by the time they're done with college. And, you know, we look at Steve Jobs, it's It's the college dropouts that employ the A-grade students that graduate college.
