FInd Your Niche by Lashunda

FInd Your Niche by Lashunda - May 2014 Scholarship Essay

It has been six years since I attended college. I honestly do wish I could turn back time and I would be finished by now. Here I am six years later beginning school again to finish up what I began seven years ago. The difference now is that I know what to do in life. The best advice I was given was to find your niche and then get your degree.

Growing up I was told that education would always get your foot in the door or that education is the best foundation for making more money. However, what I have learned is that most people have wasted their education. Studies have shown that the majority of people who attained their degrees do not even work in that field. That is ludicrous to spent money, getting into debt and end up loving a job you did not even go to college for.

I was that student and I attended two schools, one accredited and one not accredited, and am in debt for trying to attain a degree in the medical field. Once everything is all done, I realized that the medical field was not for me. I wish I had followed that advice of finding my niche first. Now seven years later, after working in the financial field, I finally found what I love to do. I am going back to school to attain my degrees to expound on my experience. I feel that if I have to spend money on my education, it should be one that is worth my time and will also benefit me and my daughter in the end. College tuition is becoming way too expensive to be wasted on a degree that may be useless. So even if you have to volunteer at different places, work various jobs, it is not worth wasting thousands of dollars maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars on a degree that will not benefit you.