The question isn’t can you but do you want to. Sure anybody can finish college, get yourself a nice little liberal arts degree, but what does it really prove? The most that piece of paper really proves is your willingness to stick it out, I’ve got a marriage license signed 17 years ago that proves the same thing.
What’s always funny to me when sitting around enjoying social lubricant with co-workers is how many of the ones with degrees have those degrees in completely unrelated areas. We’re a communication software company yet we have people with degrees in geology and Russian literature. Does that really make them qualified.
I did two years in college and left, I was aiming at the job not the degree. Have no intention of ever getting the degree. Don’t need it, I’m making more (about 50% more) than DOL says is the average for people my age with a 4 year degree. I’ve got the experience and places that demand degrees are usually stiff unpleasant places to work like IBM and Ratheon.
I’m in the student loan “business” (per se) and I agree; some odd and unrelated degrees around here: philosophy, history, political science, psychology, sociology.
Nothing to do with student loans; we all really should have majored in something called “collecting” or “lending,” LOL.
Still, college degrees do ensure writing skills and some critical thinking ability, always beneficial on the job.
Also, I think people with college degrees might be more receptive to change and to what employers call “training.” The smartest high schoolers don’t always go on to college but they usually *are* the ones who do.
“? The most that piece of paper really proves is your willingness to stick it out, I’ve got a marriage license signed 17 years ago that proves the same thing.
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Touché Pussycat! I need to remember that conclusive logic. Wanna bet that Mr. College Degree is divorced? If so, then so much for having the ability to “stick it out” and do as he vows to do.
During my working days as a programmer, I ran across people who had college degrees from a lot of unrelated disciplines - including one who had a Divinity degree. After a while I got the feeling that programming was the Bermuda Triangle for those who got unsaleable degrees. The highest I ever got was an AA and still ended up in the $90K range by time I retired in 1999.