Very true — I have seen people with a high school education outperform someone with a master’s degree in a technical field like programming. I say that as someone with a master’s degree.
That doesn’t mean degrees or grades are useless. It just means they are not destiny. There are very useful skills and knowledge to be gained from higher education, but also many skills few jobs actually require.
There are really two requirements to be successful at work: 1. Show up. 2. Do what you are told. If you at least attempt to do what you are told, you will eventually pick it up.
That is really not possible in accounting, which is something completely different from bookkeeping. Lawyers go to law school and doctors go to medical school for a reason.
An accounting degree is preparation for entry into a profession. Trust me, there is lots of “on the job training” required after the degree.
These days the driven and hardworking are being held back from plowing right through and getting their degree sooner than all the other little idiots. Our school system demands conformity (not just to the liberal agenda, but to the annoying expectation that no one be made to feel bad over being a blithering moron) and the places of study are not places of partying.