I graduated right into a well paying job right after college-I stayed there till I left that community and my husband used his two year diploma to work his way up into upper municipal management in that field. Same with our oldest, they are working in their chosen field making good bucks after graduating with a two year diploma while our youngest has never been able to work in her field after getting her soft science degree (would need to have gone on for her masters) but she used that degree to help join the military as an officer, so I guess it was a positive life experience for her.