<p>I currently make 80k from my own business but I am still going to school for a degree incase my business fails. I heard someone say that your market value decreases significantly if you don't join the workforce one year after getting your degree. Is this true?</p>
<p>I’m not sure if it true or not, but I can say I was worried that I wouldn’t be as marketable to employers if I didn’t find a job within the first year out of college. Luckily I did. I think if you are working on something, that’s marketable in itself. For example, before I found my job I worked retail full time and wrote for an online publication in my free time. I think because I continued to write and develop my skills I was able to find work, even if my experience wasn’t “professional.” I don’t know if your business has anything to do with what you’re majoring in, but the fact that you’re running a successful business says something in itself. I don’t think you’ll have any issue marketing yourself to future employers if your business fails or if you decide to go down a separate path in the future. Your business is giving you valuable skills that employers will love!</p>
<p>Long term unemployment tends to hurt one’s chances of finding a job, regardless of degree or no degree or when a degree was earned. The assumption among employers (whether correct or incorrect in any individual case) is that the long term unemployed are the least desirable applicants, because they would have been hired otherwise.</p>