9 Out of 10 New Jobs are Going to Those with a College Degree

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I don't think that everyone who doesn't go on to get additional training is lazy. There are SO many reasons that college can be out of reach for people. My daughter, for instance, is anything but lazy, but she has real struggles with school. The thought that she may not want to continue on with something that is so damn hard for her when she no longer has to is completely understandable to me. I want her to be successful in life, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be a 4-yr degree that gets her there - she's going to have to do something else; choose a job that doesn't require a 4-yr degree but still pays well, or start her own business, or something non-traditional.

For anyone with kids, at some point, it can be impossible to go to school. When my kids were little, my youngest never slept for more than 2 hours at a time. Plus my husband traveled for work. I barely slept for 4 years, I was on full zombie mode. When was I going to go to school, and how was I going to learn anything under those circumstances? There are plenty of parents in these types of circumstances, who just cannot take the time to get schooling. Let's not even talk about single moms.

I think that there's going to be some kind of backlash against this type of thing - employers wanting a 4yr degree - because in SO many cases, it isn't necessary. Sure, they can claim that they don't want to train employees, but really, how many of us learned the job we do (or have done) because we learned it in school?? I sure didn't. I may have had some knowledge to bring with me, but every company I've worked for does things differently, to the point that they HAD to train me to do things "their way" each time I started a new job. My husband is starting a new job, and they're setting up training already. He has 20 years of experience, and multiple certs (he's in IT), but the training is about how THEY do things. So saying they don't want to train people is just silly.