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Why bother applying for it when you work so hard for a degree to get pay this low? This work can be done from home and pay higher.
Why bother getting a degree if you come out of college with no skills in the field you spent four years learning about? A degree might be a foundation for something, but eventually something needs to be built on top for it to be anything more than a slab.
a degree doesn't make you that professional. IE: degree in math doesn't make you a mathematician or statistician. What else did they do in the years they spent in college to turn that degree into something meaningful?
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The entry level $23/hr position I have open now requires two years experience but no degree, just college-level coursework or equivalent seminars and workshops related to real estate/business. Over 30 applicants so far in 10 days, every one has a degree and three have advance degrees (though only 5 have the experience).
Why bother getting a degree if you come out of college with no skills in the field you spent four years learning about? A degree might be a foundation for something, but eventually something needs to be built on top for it to be anything more than a slab.
a degree doesn't make you that professional. IE: degree in math doesn't make you a mathematician or statistician. What else did they do in the years they spent in college to turn that degree into something meaningful?
degrees are worthless if they don't lead to careers
It's basically credential inflation which is becoming more common as more and more people get college degrees. You will end up needing a bachelors to do the low wage jobs a HS grad used to do.
Cheap scummy, exploitive, spoiled/out of touch/no common sense employers looking for purple squirrels for the lowest money possible. No decent/rational human beings post a job for “data entry” that requires a bachelors degree. You know what you’re gonna in return for that kind of wage? Bottom of the barrel applicants and chances are no 4 year graduates except horrible or desperate ones and all you will have is revolving door of employees and chances are your company goes down to the tubes due to “corporate brain drain” because of astronomical turnover rates
It’s quite simple really. “Play it cheap get horrible quality or no one at all”
The college graduate chances are isn’t gonna put much effort into that job after a few months as well and pretty much zone out and bounce quickly
The only time you MAY get a college graduate of quality for that type of position is if a hardcore recession is going on. They still won’t stay there long however
degrees are worthless if they don't lead to careers
a degree is not a job certificate... if they can't make their own choices in life, they don't get a career
what did a degree "teach" you about data entry and call service? Why would doing homework translate to that job? Or even pouring coffee at starbucks?
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