social standards

I was talking with one of my friends and we were talking about how admased we were that most of our friends are either not going to college or only going to a 2 year college. Ever since we were little you are told that is what you do go to emilentary then jounior hight then high school, and then college. My dad even says to me all the time that is what a person does in their life. My dad when I was little never thought school was important and would always take us out for little reasons. In our society it also is hard to find a good job without a college education, so my question is to those people what are they going to do when they can't find a job?