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You Are Picking the Wrong Degree: How to Choose a Major with Real Opportunity

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You Are Picking the Wrong Degree: How to Choose a Major with Real Opportunity (College Refocus Series).

Most families start with a college or a major, then hope it produces a career, a paycheck, and a life their student actually wants. That is backward.

Before a student spends four years—and often a substantial amount of money—on a degree, families need to ask the questions in the right order:

• What is this student genuinely good at?
• What kind of work and lifestyle do they want?
• Which careers fit both the student and the life they want to build?
• What do those careers pay, not only on day one but over time?
• Is a bachelor’s degree, apprenticeship, certificate, or another route the smartest way to get there?

In You Are Picking the Wrong Degree, college-planning advisor Kevin Kunkle puts degrees on trial through two tests: personal fit and financial fit. He follows four fictional students as they consider a Costco career, an electrician apprenticeship, a history degree, and mechanical engineering—then compares their work, earnings, education costs, benefits, debt, advancement, and satisfaction over time.

This is not an anti-college book. It is not an anti-trade book. It is an anti-guessing book.

Parents will learn how to connect interests to real careers, compare a degree against realistic alternatives, evaluate the true return on education, and build practical Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C options before tuition bills arrive.

Don’t choose a degree and hope it produces the life you want. Decide what kind of life your student wants, identify careers that can realistically support it, and then choose the education that gets them there.

You Are Picking the Wrong Degree: How to Choose a Major with Real Opportunity (College Refocus Series).

Most families start with a college or a major, then hope it produces a career, a paycheck, and a life their student actually wants. That is backward.

Before a student spends four years—and often a substantial amount of money—on a degree, families need to ask the questions in the right order:

• What is this student genuinely good at?
• What kind of work and lifestyle do they want?
• Which careers fit both the student and the life they want to build?
• What do those careers pay, not only on day one but over time?
• Is a bachelor’s degree, apprenticeship, certificate, or another route the smartest way to get there?

In You Are Picking the Wrong Degree, college-planning advisor Kevin Kunkle puts degrees on trial through two tests: personal fit and financial fit. He follows four fictional students as they consider a Costco career, an electrician apprenticeship, a history degree, and mechanical engineering—then compares their work, earnings, education costs, benefits, debt, advancement, and satisfaction over time.

This is not an anti-college book. It is not an anti-trade book. It is an anti-guessing book.

Parents will learn how to connect interests to real careers, compare a degree against realistic alternatives, evaluate the true return on education, and build practical Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C options before tuition bills arrive.

Don’t choose a degree and hope it produces the life you want. Decide what kind of life your student wants, identify careers that can realistically support it, and then choose the education that gets them there.