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The ones who are lucky love their jobs and make good money. But like I said most of the guys I know who are my age early 30s have struggled very hard in the beginning and not half of them where liberal arts majors. I was just making a point that unless you are in a lucrative field things are still not good. I know two RNs who went over 6 months before they found jobs. WHY? Because many jobs they applied for required 2-3 years experience. They both found jobs eventually but it was not as easy as people think. I see that your family is on the right track but my point is that many of these college grads need to understand what their degrees will really do for them. It's not just liberal arts majors who have a hard time getting a job.

I took a pay cut from my previous job when I first graduated because my field is very hard to enter.

On a side note. A lot of them need to think about what degree they are going to go for. These days a college degree is not worth what it was even 10 years ago imo. There are exceptions to this. My wife and I struggled so hard to find good paying jobs for years. They have to be ready for the reality that $10-$14 dollars an hour is common in this economy for a bachelors degree and many of them will have to move back in with their parents unless they are lucky. The only people I know who made a liveable wage straight out of college with a Bachelors degree are a few with Business degrees, those lucky enough to find a teaching job and of course all the guys with engineering degrees. They all make a ton of money for young adults! All the engineers I know make between $75,000-$150,000 and not one of them is over 32 years old. Everybody else is a waiter or doing construction because it pays better then working a retail job. Sad but true.

Saying all this now imagine how bad it is for someone who doesn't have a degree or a trade or started their own business and was lucky enough to get it off the ground. This is why I walk in to wal mart and see 40 year old men working for 12 bucks an hour or waiting tables(which you can make decent money waiting tables). I have a friend who waits tables and makes more then me easily. You would be shocked to find out how many people have college degrees and wait tables or work a retail job!

In the suburbs the star/sat scores are always higher. I won't go into it. You can draw your own conclusions but the other factor that many forget is maturity! Many of our young adults these days are in what they call "delayed adulthood". Basically even if they have the academic ability to get through college they just don't have the maturity to commit. Many can't deal with working full time and going to school full time.

I am sorry but I have done harder things in my life then college. I had plenty of friends who didn't go and still make more money then me. I also had many friends who were way smarter then I and dropped out. Mainly because they couldn't manage their time well or partied to much. Just my 2 cents. College is a lot easier when your not 18-21. That is what they are forgetting. Most of them are still kids mentally.