Why are people still touting a degree as though it is a guarantee to a middle class lifestyle?
We are in a society where there are university and even high school dropouts who are millionaires and billionaires. There are a lot of people who have university degrees, but who are NOT working in the fields they went to school for…and are stuck taking jobs that only require a high school diploma such as many pink collar type jobs, and labor jobs. These people are drowning in student loan debt…and the longer they are stuck in those jobs, the less value that degree has to a potential employer. This is a fact, and any HR person will tell you so
Yet, the politicians still keep insisting that EVERYONE should go to college, but is this really still an appropriate thing to do? Maybe it would be better to have more vocational options rather than having more overeducated people with unrealistic expectations who wind up underemployed…or even unemployable. Please…no rude and hateful comments here. This is based on observations on what’s going on in the workforce.
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My friend dropped out of college when he was like 21 and now he’s 30 and makes 100K as a computer programmer. He said he still wants to go back, he only dropped out to piss his dad off.
Because those people lived in ghettos or trailer parks so they didn’t get the news
Wow great question! I agree with you. I am 29 and throughout my life I was brought up with the idea that if you want to make it in this world you have to go to college. I went to college had to take all those stupid generals I had in high school….so it was two years regurgitated more intense studies that I was already familiar with and pertained nothing to my major. WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME I never finished college. I am drowning in school loans over something I never achieved and whats worse is that I see my friends who went to college and graduated are in the same circumstances I am only with perhaps a bit more debt.
I say to others if you want to go to college go but think long and hard because its tons of work and your going to have lots of distraction. New life, new friends, new freedom, no barriers.
If you don’t want to go don’t work wherever you are happy whether its at McDonald’s or a Laboratory at least that person is working and trying and those without the debt I have…..I am jealous of. My sister never went to college. Found a good job moved up in a matter of years has a new home, car, and money with no debt of school….I wish I had that.
We live and learn I guess and I think its wrong to push college as the only option when if you go to college it seems your left with the same options you went it with.
Great question.
For the record many of my former classmates who didn’t go to college are making more than some of those who have gone to college.
Peace.