Good points Darryl, and I would like to add to them...
5. A College degree will increase your career options over your entire life, both in optical and out. Many high paid optical jobs in management and sales reps go to people with degrees but no optical experience. If you had a degree, you will simply have more high paying career options and be able to leverage your education and skills in new ways. It feels great to be recruited, and graduates are recruited exponentially more than non-graduates.
6. Stress. The more skills and knowledge you have, the less stress you will have in your career and job.
Although I agree that College is the best choice for today and the future, its a best solution, not a perfect one... but there will never be a perfect solution. There are legitimate problems with the college system, its inefficiencies and expense relative to income in Optical. Although these are legitimate concerns they still don't trump the basic truths Darryl has laid out here. The problems of not having a degree are simply greater than the problems of having one. Even owning an ugly car is faster than walking.
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