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About Jodie King

Jodie is a freelance writer who, in her spare time, runs a successful marketing company in the UK. She is passionate about debate and intellectually challenging pieces and lives for researching and writing - it is what she was born to do, no question!

In the past ten years, she has honed her skills as a journalist and author, focusing on issues in the higher education sector. April's specialty is writing about college admissions, rankings, scholarships, and alternative options for high schoolers and their families. She's especially intrigued by the rising opportunities for apprenticeships, community colleges, entrepreneurship, freelancing, gap year work, and gig work as viable alternatives to a traditional college.

Jodie's commitment to furnishing fact-based and analytical insights is genuinely admirable. Her work empowers students and parents alike to make informed decisions regarding their college options and ultimately achieve their academic aspirations.

January 18, 2023 by Jodie King 1 Comment

The Typical College Student: Demystifying the Norm

The Typical College Student: Demystifying the Norm

Are you a typical college student?

Who goes to college? It is a simple question and I am guessing that you have already visualised the answer. The perceptions of college life and the entire college experience are something that we develop throughout our academic lives. We might not actually concentrate on those perceptions until our final year in high school but they have been carefully nurtured and developed right up until that point.

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Filed Under: Choices after High School Tagged With: college student

January 12, 2023 by Jodie King 1 Comment

The Entrepreneur

The Entrepreneur

This is a quick look at something of a modern phenomenon, the Entrepreneur. There have always been enthusiastic and passionate business men and women. They are what keeps business trends diverse and surprising. Entrepreneurs are as old as business but the 21st century has truly embraced the whole concept as a career choice in itself.

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Filed Under: Choices after High School Tagged With: college costs, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship

January 11, 2023 by Jodie King Leave a Comment

One man’s noble convictions

One man’s noble convictions

It stand to reason that if one noble man thinks $90,000 is a justifiable sacrifice to bolster the minimum wages of his employees then something is amiss.

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Filed Under: Economics Tagged With: college, colleges sell, entrepreneur, money

January 5, 2023 by Jodie King 3 Comments

Jump off the college academic treadmill

Jump off the college academic treadmill

Should you consider jumping off the college academic treadmill?

The future becomes instantly complicated once you reach leaving school age. There is the safe decision that takes you to college or you can select the unknown. Colleges address those choices in a way that makes students believe the bold and brave decision is to continue on in higher education. That is the decision that most make. It is a very well-rehearsed, almost ordained path that educational establishments and parents alike tend to feel is the right way for every student to go. These days learning is a very different experience. Let’s just step off the college academic treadmill for a moment and consider what other options students have at their disposal.

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Filed Under: Apprenticeship, Choices after High School Tagged With: college academic

December 8, 2022 by Jodie King Leave a Comment

The Alternative Route to Riches and Success

The Alternative Route to Riches and Success

I have talked at length about the elusive vocation, the alternative route to riches. Whether you go to College, embark upon an apprenticeship, or go straight into a job is perhaps something that most teens do not take the right amount of time to consider. We are easily swayed by the norm, by parents/friends/peers and by what society as a whole seem to expect us to do. There are three strands here that make this subject open to continuous debate and change:

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Filed Under: Choices after High School Tagged With: college, college student, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship

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