Science, Engineering, or Finance, otherwise you're much better off in trades like plumbing or HVAC.
In the immortal words of Judge Smails, “The world needs ditch-diggers, too.”
You answered your own question.
Skilled tradesmen can make a great living. Stone masons make a fortune.
Kids are getting into the Education Industrial Complex who can’t do math or write a simple sentence. The BA of today is the high school diploma of yesteryear...
There’s damn good money to be made in the trades. I’m glad I went to college and got my engineering degree, but i could have done well running equipment chasing big projects if I wanted.
Science, Engineering, or Finance, otherwise you're much better off in trades like plumbing or HVAC.
... Learn a trade or skill and then start your own business. Repairmen making house calls make a lot more per hour than the hamburger job your BA will land you.
My daughter’s best friend enrolled in a BA program at an expensive private college.
After one semester she realized she was a fish out of water and dropped out.
She enrolled in tech school and became a welder.
As a black female welder she is always in demand.
Is doing well and drives a very nice car.
Just sayin’.
You make a very good point. Part of the problem with advancing false narratives such as this global warming nonsense is that practically every niece and nephew we have now wants to get a degree in “environmental science” so they can help “save the world”. We don’t need millions of people with environmental science degrees. There is already a glut of them.
You can go to a community college and get an AA in Electrical Engineering.
A lot of employers require an undergrad degree. If employers were allowed to give general aptitude tests they would drop this requirement.
Our education system has become a) a Marxist-socialist indoctrination program, b) a NEA union-growing and leftist political machine and c) a professor & administrator jobs program.
It is showing the expected outcome: educational failures, joblessness, uncritical thinkers, crushing college debt and gibmedats abounding.
Based on the structure of our economy, the answer is no, we do not need more BA degrees.
Where exactly did the idea, that all young people should go to college, come from?
And how is it that it’s conventional wisdom that you should go to college, regardless of career goals, or whether or not you even have any job or careers in mind???
And if you think about it, regarding policies such as student loans being available, politicians of both parties over the years have urged us to go to college, and have liberalized loan policies to enable us to pay the increasing ly unafforadable cost of college.
Before shops were closed in high schools, a lot of students developed skills that made them work-force able when they graduated. All this "free college" (it won't be free because only tuition would be free) fiasco will do is prevent students with neither the talent nor inclination for college work from developing job skills for one or two more years.
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Back in my HS in 88 we had all the shop classes, I tool all of them. I was never good in math, sadly. I would have liked to have been an Engineer, but just couldnt do the work. I was always good at fixing things though. I work for an airline now as a mech and make a very good living with great benefits. Is it my dream job? no, but in 10 more years I will have worked here 33 years and be 52. Time to get out of here and move back out west...
Learn a skill or trace that someone is willing to pay you to apply. That’s what a BA used to do, but no longer in many fields. Get a job, then if you feel undereducated, enroll in an online degree program.
The four years of partying and “life experience” gained at college is a luxury most can no longer afford, and will never be offset after 4+ years living in mom’s basement without a job.
Respiratory therapists, dental hygienists, medical technologists, many more with an AA degree. Good pay and benefits with a fraction of the student loan debt from a four year ultra-lib arts college. I know these jobs are not for everyone but as my dad used to say, “Put food on the table while you’re looking for that ‘fulfilling career’.”
Sanders being arrested at a 1963 anti-segregation protest in Chicago. He was later found guilty of resisting arrest and charged $25.
Sure he went to University of Chicago where he earned a degree in social work.
Never a shortage of politicians, and 90% of the time they do not have to even be very good!!!