RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 21, 2018 at 9:53 am
(This post was last modified: May 21, 2018 at 10:19 am by The Grand Nudger.)
When I got out of the military I got a better job than any of my buddies who'd done the college thing first, and holding -that- job has been better for my employment prospects than their degrees have been. I'm still 30 credits out. My best bud has a bs in computer science..he -just- got a raise that put him on par with my salary from 11 years ago. I;ve since left the job market entirely and at last call I kept getting a bunch of "you're over qualifieds" whereas he's still struggling to find anywhere else that would employ him. About 7 years ago I -almost- took a job as his supervisor, because you don;t need a degree to boss around the tech guys....experience bossing people around will get you that job much, much more reliably.
In an economy full of grads looking for work (any work) it;s other things that get you the jobs you want. Not that a degree won;t help...but, if you know anybody who does corporate staffing or headhunting..ask em, and they'll tell you that having a degree isn;t what people think it is.
To echo Min, my mother has a masters in secondary ed with a focus on developmental difficulties. She drives a cab because she makes a hell of alot more money doing that. My aunt has MBA focusing on healthcare...she works as a community college admin assistant, like she always has. My grandfather was a nuclear engineer. He works at a bodyshop. My sister went to fire college after emt training.....she does data entry for the VA, lol. I;m the family's waste of intellectual potential...lol, the stoner who doesn;t have the discipline to finish what I started.....but they;re the underemployed unfortunates. My grandfather and my sister aren;t in debt, gi bill. My aunt got the job so that she didn;t have to go into debt, and my mother...bless her soul..has basically said fuck it and refuses to repay her impressively large student loan/credit line. My wife was on the hook for a degree in finance she never used (which is a shame, because what she really wanted to do was radio, lol). The student loans are only ever a portion of the debt that people go into when they devote to college fulltime.
Meh, do the math, I guess. If you absolutely have to have a specific degree to get a job you want and you know you'll get the job and you know it will be enough to cover your biulls with enogh leftover to crush the interest...then it;s a no brainer. Anything else, though, the decision isn;t as clear cut as college advertising disguised as income polling would suggest. In a perfect world I guess it would be, but we live in Murica!
In an economy full of grads looking for work (any work) it;s other things that get you the jobs you want. Not that a degree won;t help...but, if you know anybody who does corporate staffing or headhunting..ask em, and they'll tell you that having a degree isn;t what people think it is.
To echo Min, my mother has a masters in secondary ed with a focus on developmental difficulties. She drives a cab because she makes a hell of alot more money doing that. My aunt has MBA focusing on healthcare...she works as a community college admin assistant, like she always has. My grandfather was a nuclear engineer. He works at a bodyshop. My sister went to fire college after emt training.....she does data entry for the VA, lol. I;m the family's waste of intellectual potential...lol, the stoner who doesn;t have the discipline to finish what I started.....but they;re the underemployed unfortunates. My grandfather and my sister aren;t in debt, gi bill. My aunt got the job so that she didn;t have to go into debt, and my mother...bless her soul..has basically said fuck it and refuses to repay her impressively large student loan/credit line. My wife was on the hook for a degree in finance she never used (which is a shame, because what she really wanted to do was radio, lol). The student loans are only ever a portion of the debt that people go into when they devote to college fulltime.
Meh, do the math, I guess. If you absolutely have to have a specific degree to get a job you want and you know you'll get the job and you know it will be enough to cover your biulls with enogh leftover to crush the interest...then it;s a no brainer. Anything else, though, the decision isn;t as clear cut as college advertising disguised as income polling would suggest. In a perfect world I guess it would be, but we live in Murica!
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