The most important things I gained from university weren't vocational knowledge or my degree. I don't use most of what I learned at university at my job and nev

The most important things I gained from university weren't vocational knowledge or my degree. I don't use most of what I learned at university at my job and never will, and beyond putting it on my resume, and after my first grad job no employer has actually looked at my degree, it's a requirement on plenty of jobs but I could absolutely get away with lying about having a degree with no real consequences. I could definitely do my job without having gone to university and I'm not a JS dev building misc CRUD apps (not to belittle people who do that for a living). It's hard to put into words, but university was a unique experience for me that was instrumental in helping me grow to become the person I am today. Finishing high school and then going to a coding bootcamp for a few months before joining the workforce just wouldn't have provided that space for me to "discover myself", for lack of a better term. That's not to say that everybody should go to university, although I definitely benefited from it and don't regret it at all, I was definitely railroaded into tertiary education by my parents and teachers. And that's not to say that university is the only place where I would've experienced the kind of personal growth that I did. I have plenty of friends who went into trades and completed apprenticeships (actually more than went to university), and most of them don't regret doing that either.