I have made a thread like this about a year or 2 ago, and thought I would do it again just to see if it can last longer.
I will spare you links and youtube videos explaining college hoaxes, and I understand a lot of facepunchers go to college.
But I think we can all agree there are some degrees that there is just no reason to go to college for, and there are degrees that are just completely useless.
I am not going to college because I havent found what I want to do yet, and I think there really is no place for me in college.
College seems to really be only for medical, law, and engineering degrees.
College is definitly not what it used to be and IMO is just an institution that preys on ignorant victims and then doesnt care about them after they got your money, but I could be wrong because I dont go to college.
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I wouldn't need to go to college if I was planning on becoming a plumber. At least not if I wasn't planning on doing some very advanced work.
For some jobs, decently paying jobs at that, it's not necessary. With that said, most people would benefit from an associates so that they know how to run a small business better.
Certain degrees are useful, something like engineering, physics, anything in the academic field. As for most degrees, especially liberal arts degrees, they are most likely going to be useless to you and you'll have a hard time finding a job when you graduate (and you'll be up to your neck in debt that you can't pay off). You'll also have wasted 4+ years of your life that you could have been in the work force, gaining experience and having the potential for advancement.
A good thing to consider is finding an internship (even if it's unpaid) and gaining skills/work experience there, maybe building a portfolio, building up your savings, learning things on your own (books, internet), and just skipping college altogether. A lot of employers are looking for experienced workers who can hit the ground running as soon as they're hired, without extensive training. In most cases, a solid amount of relevant work experience will be more attractive to an employer than a degree.
A college degree today does not carry the same value it did a few decades ago, and it isn't a golden ticket into the middle or upper class anymore. There are enough college graduates looking for work right now for many employers to simply throw your resume in the trash without a second thought unless you've got something unusually impressive on it. At the very least, taking some time to think about it after graduating high school, instead of going immediately, is a smart thing to do, and working during that period is probably your best move. Look before you leap. Jumping right into college when you don't know if it's right for you, just because "everyone else is doing it", is idiocy. You have no idea what kind of trouble you can get into taking out thousands and thousands of dollars at interest for 4 years straight and not being able to get hired after graduation. That debt can't be discharged through bankruptcy, you are stuck with it until you either pay it off, or you die (unless of course, the government steps in and does a taxpayer bailout of student loan debt, which very well may happen).
That's my take on all this, I'm a college graduate with two degrees. If I could go back I probably would have either skipped college and started working, probably done an internship as well and earn a few certifications, or I would have gone to school for engineering.
[QUOTE=Noble;37761071]Certain degrees are useful, something like engineering, physics, anything in the academic field. As for most degrees, especially liberal arts degrees, they are most likely going to be useless to you and you'll have a hard time finding a job when you graduate (and you'll be up to your neck in debt that you can't pay off). You'll also have wasted 4+ years of your life that you could have been in the work force, gaining experience and having the potential for advancement.
A good thing to consider is finding an internship (even if it's unpaid) and gaining skills/work experience there, maybe building a portfolio, building up your savings, learning things on your own (books, internet), and just skipping college altogether. A lot of employers are looking for experienced workers who can hit the ground running as soon as they're hired, without extensive training. In most cases, a solid amount of relevant work experience will be more attractive to an employer than a degree.
A college degree today does not carry the same value it did a few decades ago, and it isn't a golden ticket into the middle or upper class anymore. There are enough college graduates looking for work right now for many employers to simply throw your resume in the trash without a second thought unless you've got something unusually impressive on it. At the very least, taking some time to think about it after graduating high school, instead of going immediately, is a smart thing to do, and working during that period is probably your best move. Look before you leap. Jumping right into college when you don't know if it's right for you, just because "everyone else is doing it", is idiocy. You have no idea what kind of trouble you can get into taking out thousands and thousands of dollars at interest for 4 years straight and not being able to get hired after graduation. That debt can't be discharged through bankruptcy, you are stuck with it until you either pay it off, or you die (unless of course, the government steps in and does a taxpayer bailout of student loan debt, which very well may happen).
That's my take on all this, I'm a college graduate with two degrees. If I could go back I probably would have either skipped college and started working, probably done an internship as well and earn a few certifications, or I would have gone to school for engineering.[/QUOTE]
good post
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