reject college. embrace apprenticeship

You can tell this is an ancient meme because you somehow expect "non-full-time job" position to be worthwhile in any shape or form. If it's not a full-time position, my personal belief is that either 1) they're probably going to screw you over somehow, or 2) the government regulations are going to screw you over. (I'm in Finland. The government's going to screw you over if you do anything besides staring at the phone and accept the first full-time position that miraculously comes your way. In recent years, they invented a new activity: SPAM JOB APPLICATIONS. This has not worked as well the government thinks it did.)