Stroked my cat . <| sep |> Why would you invest thousands of dollars in a degree with a low ROI ? I like to think I ' m doing alright as a 31 year old who gets lumped in with Millenials , student loans paid off just bought a house have a job that pays descent and a small amount of money in a retirement account . And I ' m a college dropout , went to school for something with great ROI engineering assuming you graduated . My parents like many others were convinced that college success regardless of ROI because in their day it basically was , very few of my parents peers who went to college ended up worse off as a result . And with that attitude in mind after I graduated high school they told me if I didn ' t go to college they were going to kick me out of the house .