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According to BLS http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t04.htm, unemployment among those with a "bachelor's degree and above" is 4.3% but it's 15.0% among HS dropouts. Living with mom and dad and delivering pizzas or serving cappuccinos may suck, but it's still a lot better than living in a cardboard box on the street or one of the Obamaville tent cities!

My kid just earned her MS but had her "dream job" 4 or 5 months before she received the degree. So like everything "it all depends".

I turned down an ivy school for my (much cheaper) State U MBA some 20 years ago. (I had a kid and a mortgage.) I'm still not sure it was the right decision. Was it worth it? Dunno -- but I had FUN! I still use some of the stuff I learned on occasion. I wouldn't recommend spending a ton of money on a second or third tier MBA degree.

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ANY job where you’re a productive member of society and not destroying others is respectable.

I don’t care if someone cleans tables and takes out the trash, they’re still doing something and I still have respect for that person in that regard.