"What do you mean the 7 years I spent getting my bachelor's degree in "Black separatist history" is worth $9.75 an hour? I'm a college graduate!"
Posted on 07/17/2008 12:37:55 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
To be sure, the average American with a college diploma still earns about 75% more than a worker with a high-school diploma and is less likely to be unemployed. Yet while that so-called college premium is up from 40% in 1979, it is little changed from 2001...
Could it be that we’re just issuing more Lib Arts degrees that are vitually worthless in the working world?
So it’s like inflation, you put to many degrees out and they become worth less?
Folks with liberal arts degrees earn far more than those with high school diplomas. Hardly worthless.
My standard advice to young people is, unless you are really into math or science, get a business degree with a minor or second major.
I’d have thought the same thing before I decided I wanted to change careers and become a teacher. Now all of a sudden a Lib Arts degree in Social Sciences doesn’t seem so useless. I’ve been running companies for the last 15 years, the last having had 65 employees and $15 mill a year in annual revenues. Tired of the BS I’m heading back to school - A Degree in something practical like Business or Management doesn’t always get you where you want to go in the end.
"What do you mean the 7 years I spent getting my bachelor's degree in "Black separatist history" is worth $9.75 an hour? I'm a college graduate!"
I am no longer paying the WSJ for subscription due to their Open Border stance and other elitist junk....I wonder what the implication of this article might be?
1) Colleges are teaching crap
2) Any Dumbazz can go to college
3) Too many Degrees and not enough common sense
4) Employers have found that College degrees mean Liberal Whiners???
Does it take into account the hundred grand or so in debt the average college grad has?
Why is it that the income of collage graduates is only compared with the income of “a worker with a high-school diploma”? There are other options - trade and technology schools.
We need certified auto mechanics, plumbers, HVAC, machinists, medical technicians, etc. There are advancement opportunities in the trades. One acquaintance started as a plumber, now owns his own company. Another started as a framer and now owns his own construction company.
Who knew!? I that that was reserved only for University of Georgia grads.
I was a fairly good motorhead around high school and took all three years of auto mechanincs that were offered. I just wasn't a real electronics type then. Nowadays, pretty good after being in broadcasting and computers for too many years.
Sorry that Clemson’s Library burned down. At least they were abls to save the new coloring books.
Spot on. How many people can get jobs within the Women’s or Hispanic Studies departments at our illustrious taxpayer funded universities these days? I forgot to add “community organizer” and U.S. Senator into the mix as well.
Mrs. jimfree's nephew was attending engineering school at Rolla, MO. He quickly decided an Mech Engr degree was not for him and returned to St. Louis to study at a votech school. Chuck now has a well-paying job as a machinist and just a couple years after graduation is buying his own house.
The best house in my neighborhood was owned by a mechanic who had become the Parts Manager at a dealership.
The only reason I say "Was" is because he moved to a better neighborhood.
With OBD2, you can ask the car how it feels, and what's wrong, so don't sweat the electronics parts, anyway. It's your friend.
I catch Sam's Garage most Saturdays for the whole hour my AM station knocked it back to. It is some education and a good refresher too. At times, I don't think I have forgotten as much as I thought. Click & Clack are good for some humor as far as I am concerned.
There are many ways to a good (or bad) income in this country. There is no one right answer. Someone who becomes a plumber (which is a LONG process in itself) may end up earning as much as someone who is a Doctor. Somone who is a mortician may earn as much as someone who is an engineer. Someone who gets a degree in Woman’s Studies may earn just as much as someone who works at McDonalds.
Add to that, if you are not college material, get a trade, machinist, technician, sheet metal, all pay well, and if you have the practical experience coupled with the education, you can go a lot farther.
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