As a person who went back to college after time off and plan to graduate in the fall at age 29, I'm horrified to read how soooooo many articles are proclaiming a college degree as a waste of money. I read how experience in a job means more than a degree, and how just getting into a trade is better than wasting money on an education and winding up working in a warehouse or factory when you can't find a job.
I understand that there are many people who have been lucky enough to make it without a degree, but I feel like these articles are also down-playing the other 90% of people who never finished college and wound up in unskilled labor jobs theor entire lives and struggling just to get by. Besides, if everyone just decided to get into trades then there would be an oversaturation of people in the job market for trades and employers would have to set restrictions on applicants in order to sort through people who are best qualified (aka, they would say you need a degree of some sorts and 5+ years of experience).
I just refuse to believe a college degree is worthless. How do you have a shot at a job that makes it a minimum requirement to have one if you don't bother to get one? I think those articles are complete horseshit and were written by people who didn't get out of college and make 100K a year immediately, so they got hurt feelings and said their degree was meaningless. I think too many people think that a degree means you automatically get a 6-figure job right out of the gate, and if they don't make a lot of money or find a job two weeks after graduating, they bitch and say they got screwed over.
I've been out there in the working world without a degree and I couldn't find shit for work. Wound up working in grocery stores for barely above minimum wage, and then warehouses where I busted my ass doing hard physical labor and being treated like dogshit. I have to imagine that I will do better than that once I finish school.
I understand that there are many people who have been lucky enough to make it without a degree, but I feel like these articles are also down-playing the other 90% of people who never finished college and wound up in unskilled labor jobs theor entire lives and struggling just to get by. Besides, if everyone just decided to get into trades then there would be an oversaturation of people in the job market for trades and employers would have to set restrictions on applicants in order to sort through people who are best qualified (aka, they would say you need a degree of some sorts and 5+ years of experience).
I just refuse to believe a college degree is worthless. How do you have a shot at a job that makes it a minimum requirement to have one if you don't bother to get one? I think those articles are complete horseshit and were written by people who didn't get out of college and make 100K a year immediately, so they got hurt feelings and said their degree was meaningless. I think too many people think that a degree means you automatically get a 6-figure job right out of the gate, and if they don't make a lot of money or find a job two weeks after graduating, they bitch and say they got screwed over.
I've been out there in the working world without a degree and I couldn't find shit for work. Wound up working in grocery stores for barely above minimum wage, and then warehouses where I busted my ass doing hard physical labor and being treated like dogshit. I have to imagine that I will do better than that once I finish school.
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