In India, normally a family invests around 12 to 18 years of their child’s life in education with an intention to get the next 40 years of work – life.
And the investment is just not money. The investment is massive with NO guarantee of returns either financially or socially

Due to an absence of a reliable career information base, guidance and development support, career decisions are focused on choosing education streams and not on choosing “occupations” where one spends 40 years of life making a living.
This forces individuals to fend for themselves, presumably making mistakes and becoming “experimenters” in life. Most land up making unplanned, unprepared, unaware and incapable entry into occupations, thus reducing employability and increasing frictional unemployment.