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College is not necessary for a good job. What skills do you have?

Go into the military.

I don’t know exactly how low your family’s income is but if you really don’t have much money and you fill out a FAFSA you could get a lot of financial aid. And a lot of colleges are switching their aid from loans you would have to pay back to grants that you never pay back. Look for colleges with need-blind admissions policies that give students a high percentage if not all of their “demonstrated need” and you should still be able to go. If you still have to pay anything at all, you can often get a job right at your college to pay it off. Or if you are able to find a job outside of school, you can schedule your classes around it or maybe even consider an online college.

Don’t rule it out because of the money, there are lots of ways to work around that.