<prompt> Human: I ask this both in a general sense and in a person context kind of way. I come from a low income family. My dad makes about 850 a month not counting Uber on the weekend and my mom makes maybe 2000 a month at high estimates. Their credit is pretty bad, generally because of some bad financial decisions while young and almost losing our house multiple times due to having trouble with payments. I am not really sure what I want to do later in life, but as Im entering my Senior year of high school I feel like I dont have much time to figure that out. Law seems like something I would be good at, and Ive wanted to at least try it. My idea was that after I graduate I would go to my local community college and get my AA while doing as many college classes my second semester of high school as possible, through dual enrollment courses, then transfer preferably to a school like Penn State I live in Northeast Florida. My parents, however, dont like the idea of me staying at home for two more years after I graduate they grew up with the belief that after you graduate you move into your own place and also are pressuring me into going to a four year college down south or ivy league law schools I have great grades and have easily maintained an almost 4.0 GPA, along with taking many AP and Honors classes. I am fine with the ivy league universities on paper, however they dont seem to understand that I dont want to be in debt my whole life going to a school specifically for something I might not like. They argue that college is great socially and for networking and missing out on those first two years can make things very hard they did not go to college, however my grandpa did and his dad did and his dad did and so on. Im very scared for the idea of being in debt, and I dont want to follow in my parents footsteps of establishing a bad credit early on.  <response>: Id pick a career, determine the training required to land it, then consume that amount of training. That might be college, but I wouldnt educate aimlessly. 