[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

For the past 20 years, everybody I know has been hounding me to get a Masters Degree.

I still haven't, and won't.

College degrees these days are completely useless.

I've seen too many people that are barely literate that say they're "working on my degree."

I'm not wasting my time or money on useless crap.

If I had to do it all over again, I would have been a plumber, diesel mechanic, or welder.

[Crucial]

I agree. It’s better to go into a trade. At the very least, it makes you that much more self-sufficient.

[miss marmelstein]

You’re smart. Years ago I thought about a Master’s Degree in English Lit at NYU. NYU, mind you. Then the reading lists: almost entirely feminist or African-American, nothing extending back farther than about 40 years. And I had read ‘Clarissa’ as an assignment in high school! How was I going to get a proud Masters in Toni Morrison?? Needless to say, I opted out.

Now I’m on line for culinary school. Bread making and food preparation.