How many couples are making it with little or no college???

Question

Are ur bills tight?? Is ur family happy???

Answer 1

Me and My Wife are doing OK. I'm A Projectionist for AMC Theaters and she is an Accountant for a flooring Company. I love her more than any earthly possession I have or don't have. College is nothing to stress over, just something that might help if you can do it. If not, don't sweat it. Just Love your Husband like he Loves you and do your best to keep doing what you do best. But keep in mind that you'll have to work a little harder and there can't be any sick days unless you are sick. LOL :) Just kidding, just play everything smart and you should be just fine. By the way, your Husband is one lucky dude, cause you are Pretty.

Answer 2

My wife has a college degree and a very good job. I had to make a career change in my late thirties with some college and no degree. I still receive a pension from my previous job, but I went to a trade school (not a college and I took several tests to get certified in my new chosen career field. Money was tight for a few years, and if I had a college degree, getting a job would have been easier. But, i was lucky to get an entry level job at a company and getting promoted from within. After two years with this company, i am now working in my new career field, making a decent living, and getting trained by my company. I have no intentions of leaving them because prospects here are excellent. But, I still wish I finished college. My children definitely will. I'll make sure of it.

Answer 3

Girl, let me tell you my fiance does even have a H.S Diploma and he's making $90-100K/yr! I have mine but no college and I've been making between $40-50k/ yr! Sales is the way to go if you know how to hustle a bit you'll do wonderful in sales!! But it is definitely possible to make good money without any college courses! It's just hard sometimes to find the business you want to be in with out college! Like me I didn't really choose car sales but that's what I'm doing and at first I hated it but now I love it and it's getting easier for me my fiance used to be a drug dealer when he was younger so really he's a hustler by nature so He would succeed in any kind of sales opportunity but he like what he does and he's an executive manager and oversees at 22 people at his job! So let me just put it this way all together we have 4 children (2 are his from a previous relationship, 1 is mine from a previous relation, and we have a child together) and they are all very well taken care of I'm on vacation and have some health problems which are preventing me from working for the next couple mo. but we everything under control and nothings being lost we have good health care and so do our children. So while college just makes the jobs somewhat easier to find and gives a few more options (I'm not against going to college) it's not critical for you to be successful or wealthy!!!

Answer 4

No college here. My wife was a stay-at-home mom for the first 8 years of our marriage. We did it by hard work, committment and forgoing some conveniences that we could live without.

Finances have been tight at times, usually because of debt, though, as opposed to not making enough money. A lot of the debt was pre-marital. We are very happy and our kids are quite well-adjusted.

Currently I'm in a professional occupation. She has been back in the workforce for one year and is currently in training for a lucrative management position with a major retailer.

Answer 5

Our family is very happy and the bills are tight. We are both considering college now but still don't know what we want to be in. College seems like hard work.

Answer 6

I know of many couples that meet that criterion and are making in excess of 100k each within the marriage. Coupled with an excellent thrift savings plan they save 75% of one of those incomes while living off of the other. In just a few short years after saving for 15 years they will walk away with an astonishing amount of money. Pretty good for people who didn't finish college.

Thrift savings per the Federal Government Law Enforcement Rates doubles whatever the contributor saves per pay period.
So that's 150k a year for 15 years.

I know of many such couples. I also know of couples with the college education who are just scraping by and who are unable to get the jobs they studied for due to their inexperience.

Lastly, I must speak from personal experience. My brother and his wife both had successful careers, no children, and an unlimited amount of cash due to inheritances. They divorced after 7 years. Neither having any children. Neither having any TIME for the other.

It takes alot more than the diploma to make a family happy.

Answer 7

You don't need a college degree to get a good-paying job. Some may even find it more difficult to pay off student loans while trying to raise a family. Personally, I know it can be hard to do so, but it's manageable as long as living expenses aren't too high in the area. My partner and I have been able to manage just fine for the past 2 years, but if you want to save money, you might need a second job (that's what I did). I come from a wealthy family, but they only want me to be safe and happy. As long as we have locks on the doors etc., they know I will be okay. We don't have children to look after.

Answer 8

My wife has some college and I have none. She was a stay at home Mom for the first 10 years of our Daughters life and even now only works part time to ensure she can drop her off and pick her up each day. Yes we had to make some material sacrifices and struggled financially but we are doing fine and we are very, very happy.
Intersting question

Answer 9

I dropped out of college and haven't looked back. I earn enough so that my wife can stay home with our daughters. We don't worry about money.
We do have the following though:
1. Emergency fund of about 6 months of expenses.
2. No Debt.
3. A monthly budget
4. Retirement investments every month
5. College investments for our girls
The secret is to get out of debt. With no debt, it's amazing what you can live on!
As to the happiness question, I would say that money doesn't bring happiness, but it does help. We're very happy.

Answer 10

If you're not going to college, then the best way to be financially secure is to be self employed and very motivated! Everyone in my family (parents, grandparents) did not go to college, but they are all self employed and worth a ton. My husband is self employed as well, but we're just starting out. Things are tight right now, but with time will improve. You can achieve anything you set your mind to, even if it doesn't involve a college education!