Many people still believe you're at a disadvantage if you don't have a college degree.

But the crazy thing is most students who finish college are the ones with a serious disadvantage.

The average student graduates with nearly $40,000 of student debt! That's a serious problem. And not only financially.

When you zoom out on the college debt crisis, you'll find a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s who've delayed important life milestones because of student debt.

Life milestones like getting married, having kids, buying a house, settling down.

Contrast that bleak picture with young adults who opt out of college and student debt to gain real-world experience, instead.

Young adults like Nick Arl.

That's him in the picture above. Nick is smiling because he just bought his first house. At age 21. With no college degree.

Nick worked at McDonalds during high school. He was promoted to manager before he turned 18. Instead of college, he took a job working construction. 

Then Nick completed an apprenticeship program that helped him break into sales.

Today, Nick's got an awesome job at a growing company where he's been promoted several times, and now leads a team. 

Nick has no student debt. He makes great money. He owns his own house. 

But Nick is not alone. 

There are thousands of stories just like his. Stories of young adults who deliberately chose to opt out of a broken system. 

Young adults like Mia Liang. Who went from homeschooled, pre-professional ballerina at age 16 to the youngest member of a thriving marketing agency and self-published author at age 18.

Mia skipped college to pursue an apprenticeship program. 

Today, she's got an awesome job as a marketing analyst. She's financially independent. She's published multiple e-books. And she's not even 20.

There are thousands more stories just like Nick's and Mia's.

Of young adults who've decided to bet on themselves instead of broken institutions. 

And prioritize their own personal, professional, and financial independence rather than riding the conveyor belt through life.

That's where our apprenticeship program, Praxis, comes in. 

In under a year, we help young adults explore a full spectrum of career opportunities in business with the goal of helping them discover a great starting point.

Then we help them build the skills they need to get hired - and actually help them land their first professional job.

They make tons of friends, develop a bunch of useful skills, start earning great money, and have a team of professionals + advisors to help them out at every step along the way.

Stories like Nick's and Mia's are the norm for graduates of our apprenticeship program. 

And it could be the norm for most young adults, too, if they opted out of a broken system.

Just imagine a world where most people are building fulfilling careers and enriching lives, instead of strapped down with student debt and struggling to make ends meet.

That's the world we're building at Praxis.

...If you'd like to learn more, then follow this link to get our guide on how to skip college successfully.

We've boiled down all our best insights and advice about why college no longer makes sense, and what you can do instead.

We also share more stories of other young adults just like Nick and Mia.

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I look forward to sharing more stories with you soon.

-Mitchell 

Mitchell Earl
Chief Operating Officer
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