The UnCollege Alternative: Your Guide to Incredible Careers and Amazing Adventures Outside College

by Danielle Wood

Think College is the Only Path to Success? Think Again!Want to think out of the box? Want to change your perspective on your future? Feeling ambivalent about going to college and going into debt? Then join the world of alternative thinking, risk-taking, adventure seeking, and change. Join the Uncollege revolution and learn that you can create a profitable, exciting, creative, and amazingly successful future without a college degree.

Whether you're a high school student considering your next step, a college student seeking change, or even a college graduate looking for creative alternatives to the conventional path, this is up-to-date guide will provide a wealth of life-changing ideas and resources, including advice on:


Great careers without a college degree
Taking time off before or during college
Opportunities for adventures around the world
Internships, apprenticeships, and training programs
Community service projects that pay
Starting your own business
You are living the most exciting time in history! Seize the day! Take the Uncollege Alternative!

Genres: Education

304 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2000

About the author

Danielle Wood was born in Hobart in 1972. Danielle has an arts degree from the University of Tasmania, and a PhD from Edith Cowan University. She has worked as a journalist, as a producer with ABC Radio, and as a media officer for Tasmania's Parks and Wildlife Service. Her first novel, The Alphabet of Light and Dark won the 2002 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award, was the winner of the 2004 Dobbie Literary Award, commended in 2004 in the FAW Christina Stead Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Writer's Prize in the Best First Book category for the SE Asia and South Pacific Region, and nominated for the 2005 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Her latest novel, Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls was published by Allen & Unwin in 2006.

Danielle is currently teaching creative writing at the University of Tasmania.

Reviews

[Jp Yuri · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it. The information about prices and such is a little outdated, but it really widened my sense of possibilities. I made a text file of resources I'm interested in learning more about, and am following up on it.