Choosing between going to graduate school or not is a rather important decision for a lot of students. There is no one specific answer for everyone, but I suppose there are considerations we must all take into account.
I had intended on going to graduate school straight after completing my bachelor degree since I was in high school. I had always assumed that was the right choice for me. My parents both went, and I had grown up thinking that was the best way to go. However, toward the beginning of last semester, I began to think otherwise. I was done being a student, and was ready to go on with my life. The considerations that go into making such a decision were not taken lightly, and as an engineering student, I really had to think about whether I would be capable of getting a job with a B.S. And there was, in fact, even the question of whether engineering was what I wanted to go into. Though I have spent four years in college, I am admittedly still unsure of what I want to do with my degree, let alone my life. So here are some of the reasons - my own, personal ones - as to why I chose not to go to graduate school: