[Phanuthier]

Without a doubt, post-secondary education is important in this day and age. Saying you don't need post-secondary is like saying you don't need a high school degree in the 80's. And going to post-secondary doesn't mean its a life time commitment, many people change their degree numerous times, and you learn what you want and don't want to do by taking some classes. Going into university, I thought I wanted to do Chem Engg cause I loved chem in high school. Realized in 1st year that ChemE wasn't what I wanted to do, so I went into EE on a whim. In 2nd year, I thought I'd be interested in Biomed or Control Systems, 3rd year was electromagnetics, 4th year was photonics and device physics, then 1 month before I graduated, it was circuit design... even in my masters, I went in thinking I'd go digital, but ended up in analog. Now in my 1st job, I'm in a new grad rotation program in both memory (digital) and analog (among others).

Thats not to say all the electromagnetics and plasma physics and nanotechnology courses didn't help, it certainly did. A lot of transferable skills besides knowledge and facts.