Posted on 08/07/2011 3:07:39 PM PDT by Moravecglobal
That’s because too many people graduate with useless degrees in:
* Sociology = Psychopath
* Psychology = TOTAL psychopath
* Womens Studies = Bulldyke or TOTAL bitch
* Queer Studies self-explanatory
* African American Studies White-hating knome like Obama
A simple online test would filter out the bad from the good, regardless of degree or lack there of.
I agree. It’s a sick country...
“A simple online test would filter out the bad from the good, regardless of degree or lack there of.”
Agree...but illegal. The Supreme Court, in all their wisdom outlawed that option in the 1970s. So we’re stuck with degrees as the screening process.
A college degree in business is a good primer for the business world. I’m not so sure other degreeS aren’t more or less worthless, or even detrimental to a healthy and productive life. Most professors are obtuse leftists, and this held true way back to the 1970’s. Both of my paqrents were full professors : )
Why corporations can't test applicants in lieu of a degree.
WOW. I never knew that.
I’m on a odd keyboard....pardon the typos : )
Quite frankly if you actually believe that you are an idiot.
“WOW. I never knew that.”
Yea, life would be much simpler if Congress stuck to writing laws, and the courts stuck to interpreting them. But I guess that’s too much to ask.
Sounds like BS to me. Couldn't hack engineering in school? Had to switch majors? Now you go online and trash them? I know your type, you are dangerous.
I have a degree in EE. If you had asked me such a silly basic question like what does v=ir means during an interview I would have walked out thinking what an idiotic thing to ask an EE. Insulting. I couldn't work in a place like that.
Google Griggs vs. Duke Power Co.
“Another straight A engineer was having problems with his car battery, so I told him how to troubleshoot it. Turns out, he had no idea how an alternator worked.”
I’ve known plenty of dysfunctional engineers, I’ve known plenty of incompetent technicians, I’ve even met fraudulent air conditioning mechanics. I knew an auto repair guy who couldn’t find the business end of a spark plug if you made him a map.
So what.
If you have a degree in engineering from an accredited school, chances are you can function in an engineering environment. Not a guarantee, but it’s pretty likely.
Like anything, you have to know what you are doing when you are hiring people - and focus on how much money they can make YOU, as well as how much you pay them.
But for you to assert as you are that an engineering degree is an impediment to skilled, professional, well-compensated employment - because you knew an idiot engineer or two - then I’ll take that argument. It is simply not defensible.
There are plenty of non-degreed successful people, but that is not the path to success; planning to not get a degree. It’s like telling your kid that they should count on a million dollar payday from the NBA. It’s idiocy.
It also smacks of base jealousy. If it’s so easy - then go to night school and get your engineering degree - anyone should be able to do it, right? I mean you can do it and keep a high-paying, secure, non-degreed day job, right?
Maybe the wannabe engineer techs will rethink their jealousy when they get a load of the hours a committed professional engineer puts in to make projects go. You may not see the work - you’re gone at 5 - chances are you don’t even understand it because the hard part is done for you by the time you get it. You mistake it for being “easy” because you can do it after someone did the hard work for you.
Nope, not buying it.
“When I was twenty-two and trying to get a receptionist/secretary job, I kept seeing the requirement for a freaking degree and several years of experience, it was shocking and discouraging”
Why didn’t you just get your degree? I mean, it’s a trivial undertaking, as underscored by others on this thread. It’s meaningless - and therefore easy, and you could have gotten that secretarial/receptionist job with no problem. Maybe you’d even have a thriving business - and maybe we’d be relieved of paying you SSD.
Or maybe it’s just easier to complain how smart and qualified you are and keep cashing the government welfare check. That’s it, isn’t it?
“Sounds like BS to me.”
Thank you.......
Asking a EE what is Ohms Law would be like asking a doctor “Do you know what blood is?”
It's not just bitter folks w/out college degrees complaining because they lost jobs to folks w/ degrees...there was a professor out of Columbia (you know, the prestigous university that Obambi couldn't remember attending because he was in a coke-daze in the alley or whatever he did instead of attend classes...but I digress) who wrote a book (I don't know the title, as I was listening to a radio interview of the fellow) about the education bubble.
He was much kinder to his fellow academicians, blaming the bubble on their purist, ivory tower tendencies shielding them to market realities...nevertheless, he predicted a market crash in education, foreign purchasing of colleges and universities, all sorts of goodies. Heck, those foreign interests need somewhere to park all those zillions of american dollars, now don't they?
If you want to see a gem of a documentary about the public school system - done by a LEFTY - see Waiting for Superman. Fabulous, tragic, and informative in ways I'm certain the director did not intend.
I get no royalties for recommending these things, but I do appreciate when folks point me to interesting info.
Majorly experienced tradesmen hanging in there at the lowe's and home depot because there's no building, no work.
The only teens I know with summer jobs either had a connection to exploit, or had to literally travel 100's of miles and live with relatives to find a summer job.
I'm not making this up.
Hope and Change, folks.
“Extremely thought-provoking.”
I am paying two college tuitions right now. I know it’s a rip-off for the majority of kids - they will never pay back any loans they get.
The solution is to allow student loans to be once again dischargeable in bankruptcy - the aftermath of that will force reality on academia.
That wasn’t what I wanted to spend money on a degree for.
Not the “boomers are the cause of everything bad” crap again. Who do you think are paying the highest social security taxes ever and won’t see any of it?
Lumping people into groups to pit them against one another is a socialist tactic.
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