{"id":136644,"date":"2022-09-20T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-27-year-old-college-dropout-earning-135-000-a-year-explains-4-things-that-were-more-valuable-for-her-career-than-getting-a-degree"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T10:45:00","slug":"a-27-year-old-college-dropout-earning-135-000-a-year-explains-4-things-that-were-more-valuable-for-her-career-than-getting-a-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-27-year-old-college-dropout-earning-135-000-a-year-explains-4-things-that-were-more-valuable-for-her-career-than-getting-a-degree","title":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old college dropout earning $135,000 a year explains 4 things that were more valuable for her career than getting a degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jasey Tragesser Jasey Tragesser, 27, dropped out of college in 2014. Today, she&#8217;s making over six-figures &#8212; and remains free of both a diploma and student debt. She has four keys to success for anyone without a college degree. In 2018, four years after Jasey Tragesser dropped out of college, she was still making only $300-500 per week as a waitress in Boston. Today, the 27-year-old is earning $135,000 per year as marketing manager for a software-as-a-service company &#8212; and has no plans to finish her degree. She told Insider that hard work, alternative education, job switching, and a bit of luck helped her move up the income ladder without having to take on student debt . &#8220;College is so expensive and reasonable companies are realizing that not everybody can afford it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But there are so many smart people and so much talent they could be missing out on if they require a four-year degree.&#8221; Tragesser is among<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasey Tragesser, 27, dropped out of college in 2014. Today, she&#8217;s making over six-figures without either a diploma or student debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[177,96,35,379],"class_list":["post-136644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-colleges","tag-education","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}