My Decision To Get A Degree When I turn down the path to success, education is the first step encounter. Five years ago, I realized that in order to be successful I would have to go back to school. Several times when I was 18 and 21, I went to school and did not finish. At the time I went because that is what was expected of me. In my eyes, I could get along just fine without going to college. As the years moved on, I worked at many jobs offering low pay and little chance of promotion to a job I could call a career. In my mid 20’s, it was marriage and kids and still working in jobs where there