>>649259015College degrees are a good idea if you go for something marketable and in demand. If you go for music/business and go into a lot of debt over it you will be wishing for this point in your life right now where you didn't have to come up with a mortgage payment to pay off a piece of paper.
Seems like the economy was making a shift to a more skills/trade/blue collar work lately. Work entry level positions in oil&gas (more downstream, upstream is still taking a beating).