Pandemic pushes students to defer school, focus on entrepreneurship
Jessica Fonseca, BNN Bloomberg
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There are signs emerging during the COVID-19 pandemic that university students would rather make their mark in the workforce than attend virtual classes.
With youth unemployment rates hovering just shy of 20 per cent, near the highest level of the pandemic, some students are taking matters into their own hands by following the entrepreneurship path rather than focusing exclusively on their studies.
Among those students is Harrison Snyder, a third-year media production student at Ryerson University, who thinks his time could be better spent focusing on his start-up selling vintage clothing.