Your education fluctuates your money
If you are thinking of attending college in the future, make sure you pick the right degree.
Bachelors degrees of many majors are virtually worthless on the market right now. You need to major in something worthwhile. Computers and engineering are money fields.
Political science, english, history, art, philosophy, and so on are all very well and good, but don’t in most cases don’t account for much when applying to jobs. If you stop at a bachelors degree, make sure the field is lucrative in that subject. Otherwise you may be stuck in a situation where you don’t make significantly more (if at all more) than a high school diploma and if you didn’t have a scholarship, you will be in some nice debt.
GPA definitely counts. Try as hard as you can to get above a 3.0. It seems like the cutting line for most companies and could be the difference between a job and not. Companies look at the extra curricular activities too, but GPA is the separates.
Furthermore, don’t be so sure a masters degree will aid you either. If you pick the wrong degree - and thus wrong market - you could be in even more debt for a distinguishment that doesn’t really doesn’t raise any eyebrows.