“I just wish employers would stop requiring irrlevant or useless degrees.”
You’re dreaming. The reason for requiring degrees is that colleges still have (some) standards, if they want to retain their credibility (i.e., accreditation), whereas high school diplomas are now a joke. So, if you need someone that can read, you better look to a college degree - as being able to read is still necessary there.
(this is a sick, sick, country)
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.
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...
Why corporations can't test applicants in lieu of a degree.