The career I've had for the past 15 years--building websites--did not even exist when I started college.
The world you will live in in your 40s will be radically different than the world you live in today. Education is the best tool you can ever hope to have for coping with that change.
Go to college and make sure you study things you don't like or don't think are important--like literature, or art, or a foreign language. This will force you to get good at learning things, which is the #1 skill you need to thrive over your lifetime. (But being good at writing and analyzing is itself a very useful skill to have.)
If you are worried about the debt load, then do something to mitigate that, specifically. Do the first two years at a community college and then transfer to a university. Or take a couple years to work, and save up your money, then go to school. Or go part time while you work.
But definitely pursue your education. Otherwise you put yourself at the mercy of other people who did.
The world you will live in in your 40s will be radically different than the world you live in today. Education is the best tool you can ever hope to have for coping with that change.
Go to college and make sure you study things you don't like or don't think are important--like literature, or art, or a foreign language. This will force you to get good at learning things, which is the #1 skill you need to thrive over your lifetime. (But being good at writing and analyzing is itself a very useful skill to have.)
If you are worried about the debt load, then do something to mitigate that, specifically. Do the first two years at a community college and then transfer to a university. Or take a couple years to work, and save up your money, then go to school. Or go part time while you work.
But definitely pursue your education. Otherwise you put yourself at the mercy of other people who did.