[cherry]

the college industry is just an industry....it has raised its rates up for decades far exceeding the CPI and they get away with it....

everyone needs a college degree to "get ahead".....

well no....MOST people do not....

there are lots and lots of people out there who have common sense and work ethic and intelligence that a college degree will not enhance whatsoever except take their money and delay their careers....

[Buckeye McFrog]

there are lots and lots of people out there who have common sense and work ethic and intelligence that a college degree will not enhance whatsoever except take their money and delay their careers....

The problem as I see it is that employers have totally drunk the kool aid and do not even want to consider your point. They want to see a degree, and if it's from an elite school all the better. Don't talk to them about anything else.

When I was a kid I applied to, and amazingly, got accepted by a fairly elite college. I did not go there because my dad felt it was too expensive. I have always regretted that decision, after years of watching employers fawn all over pinheads with Ivy League degrees while low-paid Common Sense types ran around trying to fix all their mistakes, getting neither recognition nor thanks for their efforts.

Hindsight being 20-20 I should have borrowed an arm and a leg and part of the other arm and gone there. My days of having to work for a living would be over. Employers see that on your resume, they have their multiple orgasm, and they cut you a check.

Sadly one of life's lessons has been that you will never go broke underestimating how shallow people can be.