Two-thirds of American employees regret their college degrees

[sandsthetime]

Originally Posted by desertdetroiter

There’s no such thing as a worthless degree. I don’t know how many times you folks have to be told that.

This should be a sticky post.

[john620]

The problem in the first place is college is hugely unnecessary. Intellect is a matter of genetics and cultivating it. That does not require sitting in a classroom and being fed biased information and being forced to memorize it and complete tests and write essays to the satisfaction of a professor. The core curriculum has little connection to your career interests and skills and serves to provide jobs for people in fields that have little demand in the real world. This is the 21st century with information avaliable at our fingertips. College is an archaic model. Having an engineering school, graphic design school, coding school, medical school, and etc. makes much more sense for those who want to enter fields that require institutional training (and most jobs don’t). So much money wasted on the unnecessary.

The other problem is at 18 or 20 you don’t know what you want to do in life. This is not 1900 where most people had kids at 20 and life expectancy was lower. It would be best if kids didn’t immediately go to college months after finishing 12 straight years of mindless repetitions and mundane test taking. A few years outside of school would make it more clear what field one would like to pursue.

[Listener2307]

About 35% of jobs require a degree before an application will be considered.
It'll probably go a little higher as time goes by.
I think young people do themselves a real disservice by insisting that they get a job "in their field". For the first year or two out of college, most college graduates hardly have a "field".