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Mon May-16-11 12:45 PM
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| 27. One reason so many jobs require a degree... |
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A degree shows that a student was able to handle what amounts to an expensive four year project that required considerable short term sacrifice for a risky long term gain. Presumably, someone able to pull that off is more likely to perform well than someone that couldn't. In other words, it's not just what they learned in college that makes a degree valuable but what they were able to demonstrate in achieving it.
With that said, I've hired several degree-less people in my time. The thing that they all had in common was 10+ years of work experience in fields normally requiring a degree. Someone else was willing to take the risk on them.
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| -U.S. College Education Isn’t Worth Price: Report |
marmar |
May-16-11 07:39 AM |
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Yes and no. |
no_hypocrisy |
May-16-11 07:41 AM |
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As my mother used to say . . . |
janet118 |
May-16-11 08:11 AM |
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The Labor Dep. agrees with your Mother, 92% of all jobs are found through Friends and Relatives |
happyslug |
May-16-11 12:12 PM |
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In my experience |
FreeJoe |
May-16-11 12:39 PM |
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And the college grad has to work for the next 25 years (or more) to pay off the accumulated debt. |
LiberalAndProud |
May-17-11 03:15 PM |
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It is only worth it if there are jobs for which to compete, and which |
Skidmore |
May-16-11 07:42 AM |
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"Good value"? Well, if Americans want JUST a Vo-Tech school, maybe not. |
WinkyDink |
May-16-11 07:45 AM |
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Actually, controlled studies of earnings (vs. asking a survey question) |
spooky3 |
May-16-11 08:25 AM |
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Yeah? Where was Bloomberg on this five years ago?? |
canoeist52 |
May-16-11 07:49 AM |
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Increasingly true. |
earthside |
May-16-11 08:04 AM |
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It gets even better |
exboyfil |
May-16-11 08:12 AM |
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I am starting to believe |
Celebration |
May-16-11 08:23 AM |
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I totally agree |
FreeJoe |
May-16-11 12:41 PM |
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Oh Oh Oh |
90-percent |
May-16-11 08:30 AM |
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So, if you are not a humanities major you don't know how to think and are "emotionally illiterate"? |
FLPanhandle |
May-16-11 12:55 PM |
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Your conclusion of my post |
90-percent |
May-17-11 03:09 PM |
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I think it's important to go to college, but I do think that many people who go to college |
Brickbat |
May-16-11 08:37 AM |
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let that bubble burst NOW. i have a kid going in two years. i do not get or know how so many |
seabeyond |
May-16-11 10:35 AM |
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I find myself encouraging my kids to take a year off before going to college, to strongly consider |
Brickbat |
May-16-11 11:18 AM |
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idea of paying for college makes me sick, frankly. |
seabeyond |
May-16-11 11:20 AM |
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If you get into an Ivy you don't have to worry about being able |
laureloak |
May-16-11 11:29 AM |
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hm. lol. do tell. nt |
seabeyond |
May-16-11 11:33 AM |
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When I was at the Univ. of California in the mid-80s, tuition was dirt cheap. |
Arugula Latte |
May-16-11 11:23 AM |
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well, it certainly transformed my life for the better.... |
mike_c |
May-16-11 10:32 AM |
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Then reduce the idiotic demand for it |
Dreamer Tatum |
May-16-11 10:46 AM |
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Totally agree. The problem is, many of those jobs that didn't used to require a degree are gone. |
Brickbat |
May-16-11 11:30 AM |
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This isn't anything new but K&R for visibility |
jtown1123 |
May-16-11 11:04 AM |
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Congressional testimony hits |
melm00se |
May-16-11 11:31 AM |
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Salaries will have to be raised or watch Brain Drain |
lovuian |
May-16-11 11:35 AM |
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One reason so many jobs require a degree... |
FreeJoe |
May-16-11 12:45 PM |
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