As a B.A. holding custodian I resemble that remark!
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
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Aww...poor guy. I mean, he made a dumb life choice, but I still feel bad for him. Quite frankly I'm not really sure why universities are allowed to sell so many completely useless degrees. I get that at 18 you're legally an adult, but you're essentially still a child. Your brain continues developing into your mind 20s and you don't have many life experiences yet. I don't think we can blame kids for not knowing that they are making unwise decisions like that, especially because the school is the one selling the degree to you, acting like it's a good idea.
I was mad about this for a little while, but I was able to go back to school for an actually useful degree later on once I was out in the world and figured out how to do so.
Because a degree isn't job training. Education and training are very different.
Think of how sex education and sex training are wildly different things. They can compliment each other but they aren't the same. You go to college for the education.
I think that "get a degree so you can get a job" mentality that our parents and parents parents touted is advice from an era gone by. An era when having a degree set you apart from a sea of high school diplomas. It didnt matter if it was in medieval art History. It was a university degree (so you were smarter than the average bear/could learn and be taught).
It got distorted over the years and now we are here. Lots of degrees, people "go to school to get a job", and then can't land one because...well. it just sucks
I'm on the older side of being a millennial. When I was in highschool (late '90s early 2k), guidance counselors were absolutely telling kids to just get any college degree they could and there'd be a job waiting for them when they graduated.
On the other hand if they didn't get a degree they'd be losers working jobs like having to be a garbage man and or would probably end up as homeless drug addicted losers.
This was true for me too. A big part they left out was that you would need to develop skills for the career you wanted - whether that happened in school or not. If your career interest is in computers, but your education interests are in medieval history, make sure you have some computer skills to offer future employers and let your degree put you at the top of the candidate pool.
But still yeah this whole process was screwed from the start. Everybody has degrees now and most careers use it as a barrier to entry rather than a leg up.