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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 487144" data-attributes="member: 2">I think the most important thing that you can do for your family is complete your undergraduate degree. If you're not in a technical field, having that piece of paper is really worth at the minimum several hundred thousand dollars over the course of your career. For many people, it's the difference between a low-paying and boring job and a higher-paying, challenging one in an interesting field.  Oddly enough, for many folks it doesn't especially matter what your grades are or where you went to school; just graduating from college gets you past the initial hurdles that would otherwise disqualify you from the position you'd want.I'm not so sure that an advanced degree is as important. I think career experience is just as relevant in many vocations.If you decide to go back to school, I'd involve your mother in law in the decision, since she's letting you guys stay there. It's probably good for her to know that her kindness is paying off real dividends.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>