with every piercing and tattoo the odds of getting a highly paid job goes down. every toke, every dime bag, every crime... probability of a quality life drops
college can offset... a little... but not everything
If you have to ask the question I think the answer is no.Take the money you were going to PISS away at any of the colleges and put it in account earning whatever measly interest you can get.The return will still be much greater than the benefit of any college degree.There will be no jobs for the foreseeable future.
It depends. I go to University of Florida, and tuition is cheap. I also get to use my GI Bill. Lastly, I’m going for Electrical Engineering...so I’d say yes for me.
P.S. Going to Bourbon Street is a poor sampling.
A college degree is no guarantee of a middle class life but the lack of one guarantees.... god I don’t even want to think of it.
depends on what job you want to have
Like my grandpa used to say - thermometers have degrees too, and you know where they stick them!
This is the era of obama, where hard work is punished, and laziness rewarded. Why try harder, you will only be penalized. After all, according to obama, “you didn’t build it”. :P
I would not have my job today without my Bachelor’s Degree. However, I didn’t need my Master’s Degree to have the job I have today. But you never know what you may need another job with a requirement for a Master’s Degree so to have it is just security or insurance. I don’t think you can ever have too much education. Experience helps a lot too. Problem with college kids today is that they do not want to start at the bottom of the ladder and work up. They want to start mid-level as a first job and that is just not going to happen. Having a degree (no matter the major) is a step ahead. It will AT LEAST get you a look by the hiring agency or HR Department.
I admire the achievers, be they educated or not. Obviously not all have the entrepreneurial spirit, so college supposedly plants them in a “good” job just for going. As many here have said, that’s bunk now with globalization.
If you strip away “wants”’ we really have very few “needs”’ and uneducated, average, scmoes in the millions have decent lives without six figure incomes. Factor in faith in a Living God and you can walk into a coliseum of lions, penniless, looking like the refuse of Earth and surprisingly be proved to be one of THE most “successful” people of all time...at the real Graduation Day.
But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,—1Cor. 1:27
I have an M.D., a degree where the earnings are expected to go down, not up. Obamacare is adding millions of people to the rolls but actually discourages new Medical Doctorate degrees, while encouraging those who are near the end of their career anyway, to go ahead and retire.
It’ll never work folks, government will eventually be making the decisions about who is worthy of medical care and who isn’t but I believe just about everybody here already knows that.
Only a few Engineers make it without college.
When I decided I wanted to be a military officer and pilot, a 4 year college degree was/is mandatory. So I got the easiest degree I could to fill that square. No, the degree itself has made no difference in my life. The pilot training and experience has allowed a great career. The key to a good future is gaining a good technical skill that can’t be outsourced. Whether that is elevator repair, welding, pilot, or hazardous chemical trucking doesn’t matter. All are needed and pay well and won’t be outsourced.
We “un-degreed” employees in the office spent a lot of time doing two things: (1) Laughing at the idiots who had degrees but couldn’t perform simple tasks, and (2) fixing their horrendous mistakes. Their degrees were in fluff subjects.
I’m not saying that all degrees are worthless, as DH has a PhD in Physics, is successful and highly respected in his profession, and makes a very good living.
There’s a huge difference in having a degree in the hard sciences and a degree in fluff.