Puh-leeze, I have excellent reading and writing skills and I don’t have a degree. I have my own small business (that has yet to really pay off) and while I’m on SSD, it’s only until I get my issues sorted out and then proceed to have my business pay off. 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.
Dude, I’m talking about TODAY’s graduates, where if you don’t give the ‘proper distribution’ of diplomas to the ‘right people’ your job is at risk.
In the past...we lived in a different country.
“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?