And yet we’re being told a college degree has become a waste of time. So which is it?
It always has been a waste of time, but you can thank the government for making it a requirement, because it didn’t know what else to do with millions of men who are suddenly coming home from the war with nothing to do. The college diploma helped slow their entry into the workplace to help absorb their numbers. That’s about the only worth it had at the time.
Unless you really need a specialized skill from the getgo on par with a brain surgeon or rocket scientist where one needs to have a massive amount of information memorized, most people could learn their job skills on the job in about the same time it took to learn it in school.