As a University graduate, my first answer is ‘No’ and my second answer is ‘Hell, No!’
And this is from someone, who actually thought he was taking a useful degree when I went in, namely in the biological sciences. How was I to know that I would be finishing my M.Sc. several months before Wall Street looted all the banks, and that I was about to get the double whammy of my degrees suddenly becoming as worthless as dirt, and at the same time making me almost unemployable?
/and no, I’m not looking for sympathy - it was my own fault for being a stupid rube that fell for the lies of the snake oil salesmen of so-called ‘higher education’.
You have a M.Sc.in the Biological Sciences and can’t find work? This is absurd. You need to move from your current area, (state) and find what suits you. There HAVE to be jobs out there for your field.
Were you in medical technology; I understand that field has almost disappeared, but I don’t know why.
Tell me about it. I quit a $72,500/yr. job (salaried, 40/hr weeks)at age 24 to go to college, just to have the economy tank a year before I finished. I was looking at $38k max salaries when I got done.
With a little persistence and literally being willing to move all around the country, I’ve done much better than most...but wasted a lot of income potential in the meantime.
My only hope is that my top end will be considerably increased. Financially, I’m several years behind my goals of 10 years ago.