“If you’re a young person who wants success and a career, a college education is necessary.
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That is absolute BS.
I know several very successful people that didn’t graduate college. I know several college graduates that haven’t had such great success.
There are a lot of people that would be better off as electricians, welders, HVAC technicians, plumbers, etc., than they would with a masters in history, psychology, urban studies, sociology, etc.
It’s a big lie.
There are many mindless employers who use the “college degree” requirement to weed out the losers and malcontents that they get when a high school diploma or GED is the requirement.
The employers know that nothing about the job or the future of the job requires a college grad. But, they don’t want to send rejection letters to the thousands of applicants who will fail to understand why they are not good enough to be hired.
A person who has attended college, even the worthless junior colleges and low bar schools specializing in things like gender studies and black history, has demonstrated enough initiative to borrow some money and show up now and then.
If a young person wants success, get a job, any job, keep working hard at it for 40 years, and spend less than you make the whole time. A degree in Arctic Anthropology or Feminist Puppetry is not part of that plan.
“I know several very successful people that didn’t graduate college.”
I’m one of them. A number of credits shy of my, ‘Bidness Degree’ but I’ve managed THREE multi-million dollar companies for others, post-Army career.
And now, I’m debt-free and retired at age 56. :)
It CAN be done without college. (Paid for mine via the Army & The Mastercard Payment Plan, LOL!)
This is a serious question boycott. Who hires students that have graduated with a degree in urban studies?