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To: Dilbert San Diego
of course it's going back 30 years, or more, but even at that time, guidance counselors who helped plan a career/course path, had charts of occupations, number of annual job opportunities,starting and median salaries, I recall it was a topic of discussion. Do colleges not have person to person counseling?

Or how about the old-fashioned way of getting the minimum degree to work in the field, then continue schooling part-time while working, accomplishing degrees as promotions come up and gaining experience all the while, instead of going in entry-level with a doctorate and half a million in tuition debt, largely from financing living expenses?

36 posted on 03/23/2014 10:06:38 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

“Do colleges not have person to person counseling? “

Not really; I ended up going to an counselor and the idiot kept mentioning graduate school while I was trying to find out how to get an education centered on virology.

“how about the old-fashioned way of getting the minimum degree to work in the field, then continue schooling part-time while working, accomplishing degrees as promotions come up and gaining experience all the while”

Most young adults want to extend their high school years. They want to have FUN and ‘find themselves’ and get drunk on a regular basis and rut like animals in heat. The fools didn’t realize that they should have gotten all that out of their system when they were in high school.

As for work, they want the degree to get them a position and income, like a pampered aristocrat seeking favor from the king at a royal court. Actual work is for ‘peasants’ that are now being imported by the millions.


37 posted on 03/24/2014 12:32:52 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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