Posted on 02/24/2005 9:12:40 AM PST by Willie Green
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For some reason, liberals think they should be paid top dollar to make themselves feel good.
"That equals six years for her degree. Maybe she can't find a job because she's an idiot."
My thoughts too. Or, totally unfocussed and lazy. Or maybe she's waiting for some one to come to her door and offer her that dream job, whatever it could be for
the "social sciences."
Our niece's education cost her parents $58,000. What a waste.
After graduation she ended up as a bar tender because she could make more money. She then took a course to be a court stenographer and is still making more money and the best part is she is self employed.
My brother-in-law is a state trooper and also in the AF Reserves. He uses his Montgomery GI Bill to go to college part-time. He gets the best of both worlds - relevant experience trumps college degree up to a point, so by the time he gets to that point he'll have a degree.
I've had basically the same experience. Thirteen years Navy electronics, spent a year contracting and then landed my first IT job.
College is fun, but as a career strategy, well, its not always what they crack it up to be. I heard some more stuff on the TV this morning about how the "new jobs" will require technical skills, and while that's true, just having those skills will not get you in the door by themselves. It will still take the old fashioned "knowing somebody" or just being at the right place at the right time to get that valuable experience that you need to get a really decent job some days.
Okay, you set me straight. Good luck to you.
Thanks, I really do appreciate all of the folks here at FR who try to help each other out. It's not like DU where they compete to see who can make the most clever Bush-bashing joke.
Yeah...GWB
You were talking about the students right?
Well, assuming economics and accounting require math then they would be in the list. :)
But couldn't those careers be taught on a vocational level as well? Why does it require a four year degree to learn economics if all you study is economics? The same with law. Sure there are classes not directly related to the field but might offer skills helpful for the student once the career starts. But I surely did not need Psychology and Anthropology to be a 3D Artist and Designer.
High school guidance counselors are still justifying their decision to get a liberal arts degree. Probably not going to be willing to admit that there is no money down that trail.
LOL How true, how true. Don't forget about "Social Security", "Social Justice", and "Social Engineering".
True, but all that stuff should be taught and learned in school BEFORE going to college. Almost all of the remedial courses I took in college I had already covered the material in high school. If it was a type of class where discussion was held then that would have been interesting but it was the same "memorize these dates because they're on the test" crap. It used to be one learned everything you needed to be a "well-rounded" person in public school. That was what it was for. Higher education is supposed to be focused on a discipline to make you better at what you wish to do as a career, if it was required at all. But as time has gone by they have dumbed down the system to the point of uselessness. The previous generation's high school diploma was the equivalent of my Bachelor's degree from college now. I have to go for a Master's to get the education the previous generation would have gotten from a proper college education to receive a Bachelor's degree. And it is only getting worse.
If she had to pay full price for her graduate degree, then it means she is a mental midget and the grad school did not think she was worth funding. Anyone with brains can get a fellowship for grad school.
I cannot get my daughter to grasp what you are talking about. She and her mother are on their way north for another 'audition' right now. It is breaking my heart to see this young lady try and try.
If it's college dance programs that she's auditioning for, DON'T PAY! It would be much cheaper, and much more educational, if you provided modest financial assistance for her to pursue ballet instead of college for a while. If I was in your position, I'd try something like agreeing to match every dollar she earns for herself, so she can work part-time at whatever sort of work she can get (maybe teaching children's ballet classes if she's lucky), spend the rest of her time on ballet, and have enough money to survive on her own. I'd suggest that this arrangement NOT involve living at home, first because she needs to get a sense of who and what she really is in the outside world, and second because she needs to start experiencing first-hand what it's like to live on a meager income. This arrangement would have her living on about what a professional dancer with a position in a fairly major company makes, and spending a good deal of time getting much better dance training than she'll get at any college. Put a time limit on this arrangement, maybe two years. You'll be out some money, but not nearly as much as you'd be out after paying for two years of a college degree program in dance, and your daughter will have gotten a heck of a lot more meaningful education.
What part of the country do you live in?
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