Posted on 08/27/2015 10:53:59 AM PDT by C19fan
One recent college graduate is so frustrated with her lack of job prospects that she's attempting to sell off her college degree - for $50,000. Stephanie Ritter, a 26-year-old Florida State University alum, has listed her diploma on eBay for the staggering sum to cover the 'actual cost' of attending the school. Now $40,000 in debt and living in Southern California, Stephanie is fed up with being unable to find a job in her field, despite having a Bachelor's degree - so she's come up with a drastic solution to pay off her loans and 'validate my use of time between 2007-2011'.
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“Just whores and skanks. “
And not very many of them at that.
She didn’t learn much in college if she thought she was buying a diploma.
She should have understood that she was buying an education.
With that level of misunderstanding, I’m not surprised that she can’t find a job.
I imagine, or at least hope, he got some use out of his history degree by now. Back then, tuition wasn’t life-threateningly expensive as now, either.
I read a blog post once by a woman who had post graduate degrees and professional experience in nuclear physics. She had chucked it all and gone to work for a small museum doing maintenance-type physical labor. I made a comment on her blog about what a waste of money and resources her education had turned out to be. She sent me an angry email, insisting that I had no idea about the amount of skills necessary to do the work she was doing.
Believe it or not "Art Therapy" is now becoming a bigger part of the Medical Profession treating things like PTSD and Abused kids and such. Its even being covered under insurance.
His problem was that he likely expected the degree to magically generate money for him with little effort on his part; if one is talented, diligent, and ambitious, they can earn a good living with a degree in History.
Exactly. I lost mine somehow before I even had my first post-college job. No employer has ever asked to see my diploma (college or high school). If they're going to check on these things, they will call the schools and check by social security number/name/year.
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Why not, she can get the school to give her another one for $25.
So she would make $49,975 and make a BS supposed political statement.
Ritter told Buzzfeed she has a few back up plans: either become a "sugar daughter"
Peculiar that she's a dyke, and interested in being a "sugar baby". She didn't look all that attractive for a "sugar baby". If you're spending money on a whore, she should at least be pretty and well mannered.
Does not paint her in a positive light for the qualities mentioned above.
That's just MEAN, man. You say that with a straight face, and someone might take you seriously. I'd wait until I was in my car on the way home before laughing... I can just see you tenting your fingertips and whispering "Excellent..."
Don't you know ... It's not STEM Degrees that are so terribly valuable these days. It's STEAM Degrees ... Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS, and Mathematics.
Warning: It's a link to the HuffPo.
Hilarious!
My BIL’s brother’s daughter got a ‘degree’ from FSU too...in Women’s Studies.
The she got a full ride scholarship to Georgetown to get a Masters in Women’s Studies.
Then she “married” her wife. (I told him, ‘no she isn’t married).
Then she became a professor of Women’s Studies.
Then she divorced her wife. All in the span of about 5 years.
Livin’ the dream!!
1st hand experience with that one. Not me though. I’m a couple of tech colleges product.
One of those tech colleges had a teleproduction program that I took. 6 or 8 classes and I got a job at the new SCETV headquarters soon after graduation.
My wife has an MLS and ran into the same things.
My wife has an MLS and ran into the same things.
Good catch....LOL !!
True ... to an extent. The degree may not be worth much but the study is another matter.
You either have the talent or you don’t.
And if you do, studying with/under accomplished artists can develop that talent. And yes, talent must be developed to realize its full potential.
Nobody on Broadway says “oooohhh, you have a degree!!
But professional training shows.
Still, taking out a loan to pursue an arts degree is terribly risky, even if you do have talent.
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