05-29-2013, 03:12 AM
College degrees don't guarantee higher income (and apparently they also don't guarantee that someone can spell properly, even though most browsers have spellcheckers these days, contrary to popular belief there is a difference between "fairing" and "faring", learn it if you want to get a real job).
People who are good at life will either get decent employment or start their own business whether they have a degree or not. A degree may give you an advantage to land an interview over those who don't have a degree if the applications are otherwise equal, but that's rarely the case in the real world. What happens a lot back in reality is that those who don't have degrees have actual practical experience instead which often far outweighs any college degree/experience. Would you rather hire someone who spend the last 4 years in college, or the last 4 years actually working in a position for which you are hiring?
It's a total myth, perpetuated by everyone who makes money off of higher education, that you need a college degree to make it in the world. How do I know? I legally came to the US a couple of decades ago without a penny, and without knowing the language. Today I work for an accredited college, earn a ~$70k salary + excellent benefits, and I still don't have a degree (though I may just clep out of 6 humanities credits to get a BA in General Studies since I have enough across the board credits to graduate).
The Bachelor degrees are pretty much useless with the only exception potentially being engineering degrees. The other degrees just don't teach students enough topics and skills that are relevant in the real world. I have hired quite a few people working for the University in the past 10 or so years and I have often hired someone with no formal education if they could demonstrate that they can do the job. In fact, I once fought the HR department over me not wanting to include that at least a High School diploma is necessary for the job. I insisted that High School wasn't necessary, what was necessary was knowing C#, .Net, and JavaScript. There is a skill test during hiring and there's an interview, for both it's totally irrelevant whether someone spend years of their life and thousands of dollars on a degree.
My advice to those who want a job is; Learn to program.
You can make a killing if you are able to tell computers what to do, and all the resources you need to learn those things are freely available online. If you spend your time learning a programming language and becoming good at it you will earn significantly more than these fluff BA degrees will ever net you.
People who are good at life will either get decent employment or start their own business whether they have a degree or not. A degree may give you an advantage to land an interview over those who don't have a degree if the applications are otherwise equal, but that's rarely the case in the real world. What happens a lot back in reality is that those who don't have degrees have actual practical experience instead which often far outweighs any college degree/experience. Would you rather hire someone who spend the last 4 years in college, or the last 4 years actually working in a position for which you are hiring?
It's a total myth, perpetuated by everyone who makes money off of higher education, that you need a college degree to make it in the world. How do I know? I legally came to the US a couple of decades ago without a penny, and without knowing the language. Today I work for an accredited college, earn a ~$70k salary + excellent benefits, and I still don't have a degree (though I may just clep out of 6 humanities credits to get a BA in General Studies since I have enough across the board credits to graduate).
The Bachelor degrees are pretty much useless with the only exception potentially being engineering degrees. The other degrees just don't teach students enough topics and skills that are relevant in the real world. I have hired quite a few people working for the University in the past 10 or so years and I have often hired someone with no formal education if they could demonstrate that they can do the job. In fact, I once fought the HR department over me not wanting to include that at least a High School diploma is necessary for the job. I insisted that High School wasn't necessary, what was necessary was knowing C#, .Net, and JavaScript. There is a skill test during hiring and there's an interview, for both it's totally irrelevant whether someone spend years of their life and thousands of dollars on a degree.
My advice to those who want a job is; Learn to program.
You can make a killing if you are able to tell computers what to do, and all the resources you need to learn those things are freely available online. If you spend your time learning a programming language and becoming good at it you will earn significantly more than these fluff BA degrees will ever net you.
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