> And it only hit her just then after spending all that money that she had to find a way to pay it back on that low of a salary. I wonder what the trade offs w

> And it only hit her just then after spending all that money that she had to find a way to pay it back on that low of a salary. I wonder what the trade offs would be if people had 2 years of work experience after high school but before entering college. Obviously, it would harm some people who would be delayed in their education (e.g. areas where there is a minimum of skill that isn’t gained in high school like medicine) but would also not cause as much harm to others (like software where some entry-level jobs wouldn’t really require a college education). I think at the very least it would allow students to consider what major they want to pursue, and also help give them both world experience and a larger bank account/fallback. I knew quite a few people who went into “undeclared engineering” or simply “undeclared” and wasted more of their years of university trying to find something that they wanted to do. It would have been much better if they had had the opportunity to explore that in a job, and get paid for it.