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1. Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• SECTION I The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• HOW to KNOW WHAT IS of VALUE to YOUR CHILD’S FUTURE
  • Billions of dollars wasted / Millions of years lost
• JUST for PARENTS
• PRE-TEST
• A NATION FAR MORE at RISK
  • Points to ponder
• ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NOTES
  • Screen-based technology and kids
• JUNIOR HIGH and HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
• IT’S all ABOUT MATURITY
  • About your sons
• A SIMPLE TEST of MATURATION
• ANYTHING but COLLEGE
  • Eight reasons to avoid college
  • Nine college graduate horror stories
• The NATION’S BRUTAL LOAN CRISIS
  • Points to ponder
  • It’s all in the math
• SECTION II The Land of Milk and Honey
• TAKING TIME to GROW
• LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITIES
  • Volunteer opportunities and adventure programs
  • Volunteer adventure programs
  • Volunteer vacations
  • Unique self-discovery gap year programs
  • Massive open online courses
  • Just for kids and teens
  • Travel the world
  • Growing up alongside mother nature
  • Coding bootcamps
  • Adventure jobs
  • Homemade jobs
  • Today’s military opportunities
  • What on earth is that?
• YOUR HIGHER EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT PLANS
  • My higher education achievement plan
  • My college/trade school code of honor
  • The Hulk Hogan oral defense
• COLLEGE BOUND
  • Impressing the admissions committee
  • The not-all-knowing gods
  • There’s a college for that!
  • Best down-to-earth college degrees
  • Worst-paying college majors
    College pointers
  • Earn a college degree for free
  • Unique colleges for non-traditional students
  • Companies that help pay for college
  • After graduation professional development
• STRAIGHT INTO the WORKFORCE
  • Work that is high school friendly
  • Holly cow—a high school degree can take me that high?
• APPRENTICESHIPS
  • Highlighting a few apprenticeship programs
  • Points to ponder
• TRADE SCHOOLS—the LAND OF RICH OPPORTUNITY
  • Points to ponder
  • The 10 advantages of attending a trade school
  • What to watch for
  • Three case scenarios—the fruits of good homework
  • Trade schools that are out of the ordinary
  • High paying vocational professions
• COMMUNITY COLLEGE
  • Eleven great reasons to attend a community college
  • Corporations are turning to community college
  • Top 10 technical programs
• The Highest Paid PROFESSION in the WORLD
  • 10 reasons to get into sales
  • A few success stories
  • 50 of the best sales quotes on the planet
  • The author’s quotes on sales and life
• JOBS of the FUTURE
• ENTREPRENEUR ACADEMY
  • Wealthy teenage entrepreneurs
  • A fortune before age 35
  • Three plans to jumpstart a young adult startup
  • 16 stories of blood, sweat and tears
  • An exercise in the “what if . . .”
  • Other business ideas to look into
  • Top 14 undergraduate schools for entrepreneurship studies
• CONCLUSION
• RESOURCES
• The ENDING–and the BEGINNING!