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Any degree is still better than no degree at all. Most generic job postings simply require a generic bachelors degree. It's the new high school diploma.
100% true, most (non-specialized) employers don't care what the degree is.... so long as you have one
I think that is why you see some seemingly useless degrees still being popular choices
It's easier
why work so hard getting a BS in Engineering when you can get a BA in Art...... "a degree is a degree" to many employers
I got a poverty healthcare degree. I only went to college to get laid though. I could care less about money and careers. I just want to smoke weed and play video games.
100% true, most (non-specialized) employers don't care what the degree is.... so long as you have one
I think that is why you see some seemingly useless degrees still being popular choices
It's easier
why work so hard getting a BS in Engineering when you can get a BA in Art...... "a degree is a degree" to many employers
I think that is mostly true. While there are some positions which absolutely require a degree in a particular field, many more seem to require "insert" general degree.
More often the tricky part is getting the interview in the first place. If X company is looking to fill 1 position and they have 50 people with degrees applying for that position, well my heart goes out to the other 49.
some point in the early 90s is when college degree started losing value, and choice of major became more and more important. Do young people today major in economically useless subjects because of ignorance (lack of knowledge about education bubble), or laziness? Somehow intuitively, they must understand that they can't drop 50k on an economically useless major and expect to find a decent job when everyone else is going to college too, right?
Because not everyone is good at math/science/technical stuff. You either have the right brain type for it or you don't.
I think everyone is told they have to go to college and anything less than that means you're going to be a failure and therefore have failure parents. It's ridiculous because not everyone is cut out for college, they come out dumber than they were when they went in because now they're in debt and have no life skills. They choose silly degrees like history or english, just like everyone else and end up in a job they could have gotten with some business courses at a tech school and some experience.
I have a college degree. By choice, I'm not working in the field I studied, though I have. But in all honesty, it was the business and computer classes that I took in high school that got me the jobs with health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave and stability.
I give my kids the opportunity to attend college if they want (on their dime with some assistance as their grades hold) but I strongly suggest looking into vocational and technical schools too. Plumbing, welding, medical assistance, lineman, police, fire - you'll never be jobless!
I think everyone is told they have to go to college and anything less than that means you're going to be a failure and therefore have failure parents. It's ridiculous because not everyone is cut out for college, they come out dumber than they were when they went in because now they're in debt and have no life skills. They choose silly degrees like history or english, just like everyone else and end up in a job they could have gotten with some business courses at a tech school and some experience.
I have a college degree. By choice, I'm not working in the field I studied, though I have. But in all honesty, it was the business and computer classes that I took in high school that got me the jobs with health insurance, paid vacation, sick leave and stability.
I give my kids the opportunity to attend college if they want (on their dime with some assistance as their grades hold) but I strongly suggest looking into vocational and technical schools too. Plumbing, welding, medical assistance, lineman, police, fire - you'll never be jobless!
You make good points but the problem is that there is little market for 18 year old workers. Thus they'd be doing very little during those years. I personally favor a return to the apprenticeship system, at least for many students who have street smarts but not college smarts.
As for useless majors, if someone is heading for graduate school, as I did (I am a lawyer) taking courses that are interesting and for which one has an aptitude helps the GPA and in turn admission to graduate school.
it's the people that get them with no plans that make themselves worthless... with or without degree. They just had no plans beyond getting a piece of paper. Switch out the paper, and they would still not have a plan.
Really, anyone could make anything worthless by lack of planning. If someone gave you Apple, you could run it into ground and be left penniless as easily as the guy in the basement figuring out how to put together an invention and becoming one of the richest guys
I've always had an interest in mental health and the social sciences, in general. I wish I would have gotten a master's in psychology instead of security studies because it would have allowed me to become a licensed professional counselor or licensed psychological associate. There is a severe shortage of mental health professionals, and Texas and some other states are offering to pay their student loans in order to encourage more people to enter the field and work in underserved areas. But, I was able to use my BA in Social Science to register as a licensed chemical dependency counselor intern and work toward a full license. I wouldn't have been able to do that with a degree in a natural science, business, engineering, technology, etc.
By the way, I do have an aptitude for science and technology. I'm close to finishing a business administration/computer information systems bachelor's and a biology associate's. I'm just doing those for personal fulfillment. I used to be a business admin and computer science major when I first started college, but found those subjects to be extremely boring.
According to some lists, nursing, accounting, and computer science or information technology are among the top 10 most popular majors in the U.S. Business administration is, by far, #1. There are way more nursing majors than art majors. These types of threads are based on a false premise.
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