Problem is most companies require a college education. My day job is in automation. I have done that for 18 years now, and by education I’m a mechanical engineer. When I first started, automation was fairly new, and a very large amount of people doing it were electricians that had a talent for it. My old boss wasn’t even an electrician but had a talent for it, and he ended up becoming the engineering manager for a large fortune 500 company..he was neither an engineer, nor even a college graduate. In our group there were about as many people without engineering degrees, as with. However, today, nobody will even be considered for a job in the automation department unless they have an engineering degree. I will tell you what, I would rather take an electrician with the aptitude and desire and train them, than 95% of new college graduates (even engineers)....and ironically, some colleges even offer degrees in process controls now, and those are always the worst possible people to hire..no imagination, or common sense
Sounds like my father talking.
He was a tool & die maker when pulled over to the engineering side back in the late 50s. Within a few years he had his own department. When the company was taken over by Textron he became a corporate trouble shooter for assembly lines, the job included numerous moves. His major complaint was the “collage educated idiots” with engineering degrees he had to work with.
A degree gives companies cover when they hire. With lawsuits and the EEOC, everything needs to be documented. Picking people with aptitude over credentials appears very subjective.
At least with engineering or science, there are difficult courses to master. With too many social science majors, you have people taking garbage courses with no bearing on their future employment.
Do we really need any more social work grads? ...and don’t get me started on the destruction MBAs leave in their wake as they run companies into the ground.