I just started going…. 7 years later.

The disadvantages are that sometimes life happens. If you are not careful, you may become apathetic or not want to go to school. If you are going to take a year off, take a year off after you start school, so then you can gauge how you feel about college after you have been there.

(2) If you find a job in the interim, it becomes increasingly difficult to schedule both work responsibilities and school.

(3) People often lose ambition and settle for less than they had initially aspired to attain.

(4) Life problems get in the way and before you know it, 8-10 years have passed, you’re older, and you’re still not going to school and find yourself stuck in a low paying job.

In Europe, people often take time off to travel around the world or to live in a different country. In the US, however, it can be problematic since most employers don’t seem to grasp that concept of “education.” If you plan to use the time off to travel the world, I think that would be a great experience, something you cannot gain by any other means. However, if you are doing this only because you are tired of school, then I don’t think you are being wise. Go to school and keep up the momentum.

My advice, consider the summer between graduation of high school and the start of fall your “time off”. Don’t do anything rash like buy a car or get married in that time and hit the books full force in the fall.

This is the next step in your growth, would it not make sense to take that gap year with education under your belt, rather than working as a labourer to make ends meet. Which would be more enjoyable?

try working or studing abroad

personally I want to do that so I pretty much know I’m not graduating college in 4 years.