In Canada, if a young individual doesn't have at least a CEGEP or an undergraduate education, it's nearly certain that his future career prospect will be wrecked by the lacking, unless he runs his own business or he's a tradesman or something like that.

It's not discrimination or something, but it's just the damn competition in the market.

Where there always tend to be some, if not many, young people with Arts degrees making a living close to minimum wage, potential employers have many choices. Then why would he choose one mentioned above instead of another with an Arts degree? At least the latter writes and speaks better, if not much better, than the former, most likely.

On the other hand, my above words are not to say that the person without a higher education can't manage to get one in the future, near or far. After all, this is Canada. It shouldn't be too hard to attain, if one puts his mind to it, reasonably, before his fifties.