A BA degree is the new HS diploma since a HS diploma these days is a joke.
Amen! I recently told my cousin’s kid not to go to college and get into a trade. If the women don’t find ya handsome, at least they’ll find you handy. Plus, you’ll have money and women love that too :-)
My BS degree never got me anythinng except a discout on my auto insurance. Can you believe that they would even ask that question at my age after more than 50 years of neary accident free and ticket free driving?
My BS degree never got me anythinng except a discout on my auto insurance. Can you believe that they would even ask that question at my age after more than 50 years of neary accident free and ticket free driving?
SIX years to get an utterly worthless degree in leftist bullsnot?
What a colossal waste of time. He'd have been better off joining the Army. MUCH better off. Six "long" years in the Army would have given him a lot of worthwhile experience dealing with all sorts of people in stressful situations, some marketable skills, and most of all pride and self respect knowing that he had stood up to defend his homeland.
If I had it to do over again, I would skip college and go into the trades. Better life, and more money.
Bachelor - - -
Sexist, and Micro Agressive
If it’s in the pseudo-intellectual mag Atlantic it’s probably all wrong.
I have a BS degree, never needed it for my work in administrative/bookkeeping. Our three adult sons only had a smattering of college and are all successful in the fields of their choice: one is in sales, another in real estate, the third in high end restaurant. They all make a great income and don’t have student loans to drag them down. Their peers, on the other hand, earn much less and have degrees, AND a mountain of debt. Go to college only if you’re pursuing your passion. Parents, let your kids pursue what they love.
I no longer revere the GOP, and I hate Universities and consider liberal arts BA`s worthless.
I also NEVER trust unemployment stats or the stock market.
The community college where my wife works has recently decided that a BA is the minimum for pretty much everything above janitor. They’re trying to squeeze out the non-BA holders, which includes her. But given the pace that place moves she should hit her 80 points and be able to retire before it hits crisis.
When I was an undergraduate, a BS in political science meant you were pre-law.
For what the heck kind of private sector employment does a poli-sci degree qualify him? Guess he wants to live on the government dime, with all of us paying.
If I was just starting out today, I would not go to college but would get training online, on the job, and through apprenticeships and internships. It doesn’t make sense to go in hock five or six figures and have a degree that is near-worthless in psychology, political science, sociology, communications, gender studies, black studies, brown studies, ad nauseum. I got an engineering degree from UCLA in 1971 and it got me regular work for 30 years, but after a couple of layoffs, it was evident that the credential had become obsolete and I had to “re-invent myself” for the jobs that were available. Many people I knew kept trying to sell their degrees past the expiration date - they wanted a job with “benefits” that were rapidly going away. Some are still trying.
“America Needs to Let Go of Its Reverence for the Bachelor’s Degree”
yes and no.
yes: any degree that’s not a hard science or math related degree.
no: any degree that’s a hard science or math related degree.
Hmmm....
Wait...what?
WHAT?
Is he kidding?
If I had stayed one more year in undergrad, I could have gotten a BS degree in Political Science.
But keep in mind that this was while I was already acquiring a BS in Chemistry, and was minoring in political science, taking senior level classes as a sophomore and getting batter grades than the senior polisci majors.
The problem is lack of meaningful SUBSTANCE at ALL grade levels, BEFORE entering college.
Quit with the social indoctrination, bloated administrations, and Roman Palace architecture, and you’ll discover more than enough budget to teach the essentials necessary to create a productive citizenry.
It’s a good article, and upside down BAs are a good idea. Another good idea would be post-High School aptitude testing. Employers require BAs because they are filters or sieves. Having a BA, in whatever field, demonstrates that the holder has a certain level of intelligence, can manage time to some degree, can take instruction etc., all of which are valuable to employers. This is why employers might require a BA to work in a call center or to be a clerk pushing mortgage paperwork. But it is wasteful to require that someone spend $120k in a four year college in order to demonstrate aptitude for employment. Instead, we ought to be looking to aptitude testing, something similar to the test batteries used by the military, to determine aptitude out of high school. Here’s an interesting interview on the subject.