Death comes to us all. Life's but a walking shadow | Are you really an 18-year-old writing for advice? Maybe I'm too harsh but if you spend a $120,000 on a degree in Ag Systems Management you'll never make it in farming. Farming is all about return on investment (ROI). On the other hand, if you spend some money on an MBA you just might, but not at $120,000. Maybe the Ag Systems Management is a dressed up MBA which might be good because you won't be locked into just agriculture. But at your age, unless you're the exception, do you have enough life experience to make the decision to commit to the lifetime of hard work it will take to build a successful farm?
Quite frankly, right now, your job, is to find out what kind of person you are. There'll be plenty of time to farm in a few years.
This is off topic but while we're here, let me remind you a truth about colleges and higher education in general. Colleges (& universities) are businesses, higher education is an industry. They give you a product, information, skills, etc. in return for money. Sometimes the product is a little dubious. It's your job as a consumer to get value for money. That doesn't mean that a degree in philosophy or a few courses in logic and rhetoric can't be quite valuable. In fact, they can be quite useful in analyzing what politicians are saying (or in the current case, not saying).
Anyways, good luck. |
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