New statistics show college enrollment is still far below pre-pandemic levels. These Gen Zers say there’s no need for a degree to succeed.
She says social media has made her business possible.“It literally just started to take off. I didn’t plan for it to take off like that. But I just kept working,” she said.
Carr says she got that entrepreneurial spark from her father, Desmond, who owned a shoe store but passed away right before her 18th birthday.“My dad wanted me to go to college to have something guaranteed and stable,” she said. “But, more than anything, he wanted me to have my own business.” “That’s when I really started opening my eyes to the fact that you don’t really need school to do this job right here,” he said. “I see a lot of older men running companies as one-man shows. It’s just them, and when they die this establishment is gonna be no more.”So, when college application season came around, Harper opted to go to trade school for heat and air.
After starting his YouTube channel at age 12, today Dustin Vuong has managed to make a career out of social media.Growing up, he worked in his family’s Sacramento, California, vegan Vietnamese restaurant.began to take off in high school, he pulled back from the family business. So he decided to enroll in his local community college during the pandemic because he didn’t want to pay full tuition at a major university just to do Zoom classes.
Since dropping out, he’s landed major sponsors like McDonalds, Uniqulo, and BetterHelp — deals that helped him finance his move to Los Angeles in 2021 to pursue his dream in Hollywood.Margot Judge for NY Post
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