It's interesting to read these posts. In Holland EVERYONE does further education of some sort. If you're smart enough to do a degree, you DO one, most of them immediately. And for the ''lower-skilled'' there are hundreds of technical courses, teachers courses etc...
I guess the most important part is knowing who you are, what you are good at, what you are interested in, and how much money you want in life.
I love maths, for which I am lucky, I do not need a lot of money to be happy, but I might end up in a job in which I earn enough easily, so I could work part-time and still be comfortable (I know how naive I sound, but fingers crossed). Whereas I also have friends who love money, clothes and expensive gear and whatnot, but they're doing an arts degree, don't really get why. Then again, it might give them a motivation to work their freaking butts of until they are where they want to be. If they manage, good for them, I don't think they will.
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