Is it even worth going to college?

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Because I fear even if I finally had a well-paying career that requires a degree, I'm afraid I would be micromanaged like at my current unskilled labor job. We American workers have barely any protection rights. Not to mention there's that stupid work at will law which anyone can be fired or laid off unless if you had sex with the boss.

I do aspire to have my own freelance business. But at the same time my gut is telling me I am still not skilled enough yet and I am having my doubts it will be enough to pay bills in my state.

Hopefully I can find remote work if I were ever to become an engineer. However, I hear those types of jobs are a unicorn...

Depends on whether you have to pay for it or not. Harvard pretty much picks up the bill if your family can't afford to pay, making it one of the best places to go to in the USA!

My wife was a scholarship administrator twenty years ago. She said that most engineering students had someone else picking up the bills, one way or another. A lot of companies would pay for their education.

https://ebcareers.com/learning/
The catch? They make submarines for the US military.

If you are good designing stuff you can make a lot of money on temporary contract work.
Learning the fundamentals is essential for being able to make wise choices on what work to take on.

I know a lady who got her civil engineering degree and worked as civil engineer until she realized that all the customers ever wanted was for her to cut costs. Here is what we want. Can you do it cheaper?
She got out of that and is now a landscaper, designing gardeners for rich customers.

Similarly, I have friends who maintain rose gardens for the wealthy. One of them used to be a surgeon but is much happier as a rose gardener! I think he has outed himself as having autism in a book that I haven't read.

Well kinda depends on your intentions , Spent 2 years in college , and it did help me into a job into a entry level programner position, but due to the glut of actual longer term of people working in the feild. Was stuck in computer operations. And this was many years ago. And as time passed had to take whatever job would pay the bills, when that term of computer work ended, When they outsourced their computer operation dept. So did eventually stumble into a
low level business opportunity. Which paid the bills as a extra gig, when I had a regular,( pay the bills type job) .
So now the business , started to demand more of my time . So let the pay the bills job go . And it had paid the bills and as long as I kept my needs simple . Was able to make more money and grow the business. But it required alot of dedication to my own business .But I did get to control my own hours of work. Best wishes. btw did do a short term trade school inbetween, but that line of work turned out to be not for me. ( few things are as satisfying as being your own business).took me two trys, to get one going that paid well. if you wish to study,might study on what is required to make a go of it with your own business,especially if you can run it or do it by yourself. I cut every corner I could to get things started for the business . . best if you start with something you already have some familiarity.