I’m interviewing 3 candidates today for a position and I trashed any resumes of those who applied for the job that did not have a college degree. It took me 8 years, two jobs and military service to get through college but I finished it. If I can do it then anyone can do it.
That said, not everyone goes to college and we need jobs for people who don’t. The problem is that both ends of the middle class are being eaten away by illegal Hispanic immigrants or H1B visa holders. The rest of the jobs don’t pay a living wage or are being offshored.
At the rate we are going all we will have left is the unqualified or the overqualified...
With all due respect that was stupid. Plenty of people have the skills and experience without college.
“If I can do it then anyone can do it.”
Sucker. The idea that college, the liberal arts indoctrination camps they are, is a requirement for knowledge is just drinking the commie kool-aid. Plenty of people are leaders of business and science and politics without college.
It has been my experience that many people would have been better off if they had not gone to college and learned some really bad habits and personal philosophies, not to mention graduating with serious debt from student loans.
The question isn’t can you but do you want to. Sure anybody can finish college, get yourself a nice little liberal arts degree, but what does it really prove? The most that piece of paper really proves is your willingness to stick it out, I’ve got a marriage license signed 17 years ago that proves the same thing.
What’s always funny to me when sitting around enjoying social lubricant with co-workers is how many of the ones with degrees have those degrees in completely unrelated areas. We’re a communication software company yet we have people with degrees in geology and Russian literature. Does that really make them qualified.
I did two years in college and left, I was aiming at the job not the degree. Have no intention of ever getting the degree. Don’t need it, I’m making more (about 50% more) than DOL says is the average for people my age with a 4 year degree. I’ve got the experience and places that demand degrees are usually stiff unpleasant places to work like IBM and Ratheon.