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I am receiving increasing pressure from my mom to finish my degree. I had originally canned the idea because I was making 125,000/yr at the time, so didnt really see a need for it. However, my mom just got done her own degree from a degree mill and her womenly instinct are telling her she feels ashamed of having a non degreed son. Ironically I'm the second highest earner in the family, but that's completely irrelevant. Now if this was 30 years ago, then sure I could entertain the idea. However, coming from a background of it never coming up, it's really really hard to justify spending all this time and effort for a piece of paper that will do nothing for my life. I have my own business, I am getting multiple clients, I have a house, and God has blessed me in ways I never knew would be possible. However, in this case, is there even a point to getting a degree? She doesn't even care what the degree is in (she suggested General Studies), she just wants me to have a degree come hell or high water

I am receiving increasing pressure from my mom to finish my degree. I had originally canned the idea because I was making 125,000/yr at the time, so didnt really see a need for it. However, my mom just got done her own degree from a degree mill and her womenly instinct are telling her she feels ashamed of having a non degreed son. Ironically I'm the second highest earner in the family, but that's completely irrelevant. Now if this was 30 years ago, then sure I could entertain the idea. However, coming from a background of it never coming up, it's really really hard to justify spending all this time and effort for a piece of paper that will do nothing for my life. I have my own business, I am getting multiple clients, I have a house, and God has blessed me in ways I never knew would be possible. However, in this case, is there even a point to getting a degree? She doesn't even care what the degree is in (she suggested General Studies), she just wants me to have a degree come hell or high water

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It depends if your business is sustainable long term, like is it selling 'We Love Biden' hats or is it a construction company?

Having a degree is essential for building a career within a company, but if you have your own company then that's all down to hard work, opportunities taken and luck.

Parents may have a fixed idea about what works in life and they will always push the safe option (education) because they know that kids are stupid, even their own.

I'd work on having a slush fund, so if you did need to retrain you'd still had that option. Also, do what makes you happy rather than what makes other people happy

As a general thing I would always recommend higher education while young, because that experience and confidence is useful.

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I work in software engineering, and I already have a few clients at hand, one pays around 60/hr, and the other pays around 50/hr. Waiting to hear back on the third client which pays around 100/hr. So overall for this year, Im projecting around 425,000 in total revenue. I had mentioned this to my mom but she said it wasn't about the money, and still needed to get a degree because I could be missing out on some opportunities without it

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I work in software engineering

yeh, you'll never need a degree, that's all experience and talent. And everything you know is going to be out of date every few years anyway, so you'll be used to picking up new skills

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What opportunities? To be brainwashed by Marxist colleges?

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In that case, you should only go after a degree if it offers you useful knowledge that will help you in the future. Seminars on specific subjects would be more useful to you instead of a formal degree. Frankly I can't understand your mom.