The simple fact is that a lot of the jobs that require a college degree, really don’t. Seems that a good many college degrees are more a means of keeping professors employed than anything.
Someone with reasonable intelligence and ambition can learn just about anything on the job. I’m not going to trust a brain surgeon with OJT but I’m a high school dropout who learned to program, operate, and maintain robotics while managing a paint room full of painters.
College professors and their students should be on the cutting edge pushing the envelope in science and technology.
Many times, the first thing they ask you when you apply in person or online is if you have a bachelor’s degree. For jobs that really don’t require one.
Amen brother.
I have seen many a machinist become a programmer on his own.
“The simple fact is that a lot of the jobs that require a college degree, really don’t. Seems that a good many college degrees are more a means of keeping professors employed than anything.”
especially true in graphic design. you don’t need a master’s degree to teach intro any graphics software. rather have a teacher with no degree and 5 years experience in the software. most graphic design degree requirements are so artists who can’t make a living selling crap they call art can get a job. i have been to cherry creek arts festival and wouldn’t buy 40% of the stuff and would have to be paid to put another 40% of the stuff in my house. remaining 20% is quite good and i have bought some in the past.
I’m not going to trust a brain surgeon with OJT
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Actually brain surgery and most others is mostly OJT