College vs. Trade School: How Gen Z is navigating future pathways

In this week’s episode of Money Glow Up, host Tiffany Aliche speaks to career expert and executive coach Laura Gassner Otting to explore whether trade school or college is the better financial choice, diving into the benefits of each path.

Gassner Otting explains that while college graduates may earn more over the course of their careers, trade school graduates start earning earlier — and without the burden of student loan debt. “They’re graduating without debt, and people coming out of trade schools immediately start usually earning union-protected wages,” Gassner Otting says.

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00:00 - Laura Gassner Otting joins Money Glow Up

02:36 - What is a trade?

04:09 - Gen Z redefining success  

05:34 - Financial benefits of attending trade school

06:38 - Financial benefits of attending college

12:49 - Venture Capital investment in trade schools

13:21 - Factors to consider when shifting directions in your career

15:33 - GassnerOtting on her career trajectory and shaping AmeriCorps

17:35 - Pivoting after establishing a career

19:20 - Gassner Otting on the coin flip study

21:42 - Takeaways

Laura Gassner Otting is a career expert, bestselling author of three books, serial entrepreneur, executive coach, and keynote speaker. She’s an instigator, a motivator, and a provocateur, and she’s never met a revolution she didn’t like.

Yahoo Finance's Money Glow Up is hosted by Tiffany Aliche, and produced by Lauren Pokedoff and Shelby Boamah.