I left school early and started my family early, so I never had time to get a degree and ended up doing boring, low-paid jobs. So I decided to go back to college. It wasn’t easy, as I still had to work part-time and find time for my children as well as do all the coursework, but I managed to graduate with a first class honours degree and then went on to get an MA.
It enabled me to teach at uni and I love it! Especially teaching adults who, themselves, have gone back to college to get their degree. So for me anyway, it was well worth it.