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College yesterday is not the same college of today

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Right you are!!! Spot on!

But employers are still stuck back in time.

I still think education is essential to some fields, and required.

Would you go to a doctor who has not attended medical school ? No.

Would you trust your finances to someone who did not study finance ? No.

Would you hire someone to run your business or give them a big role, if the person did not have an education ? I don't think so.

Why because it was hard coded in the human brain that no college = no good.

Sad reality.

Now let's shift gears. How many people who have all the education landed good jobs and succeeded.

I could give examples of many people I know with diplomas, degrees, etc, still struggling to find a job, who were forced to accept lower paid jobs. I won't name names to respect their privacy.

davidbugs wrote: I am go glad

I am go glad !

davidbugs wrote: I am go glad I didn't go college yet. I knew it going happen student loan crisis in American. Alex jones predict it.

We are going see a lot of people under 35 years old still live their parents. We can't afford rent. Why should I have to work 3 jobs for mininum wages. We would not have any life at all. Young people are sick tired work all time.

We need to relax, work smarter, spend more time with family and friends. We can have more time with Facebook.

Young people want higher salary with limited hours. People want relax have a good time.

You said you finished high school

My grandfather retired from the city trash department way back about 1969.
My grandmother retired from a major gas company in 1971.
She worked a couple years longer to draw her pension.
He walked behind a trash truck and picked up trash cans, dumping the trash in
the back of the trash compactor truck.....for many years. She was a clean up
woman in a major gas company for many years, working a weird 5pm to 2am
shift. Both worked Mondays thru Fridays only. He was also a minister so they
didn't believe in working on Sundays if they didn't have to. This was in
Chicago land.

They purchased a 300 acre farm, large farm house right before retirement.
My grandfather remodeled the house and they purchased 100 head of cattle.
They also planted lots of fruit trees and veggie gardens. They also purchased
a church building and he preached during his retirement until he got too old
to do so.

He lived to be 91 and she lived to be 86.

He might have went through the 6th grade and she might have gone through
the 8th grade. She said she rode a cow to school when she was a kid and she
loved going to school. The school actually only went to the 6th grade but she
would go back every year anyway.

Both were very intelligent people. Both worked very hard all their lives. They
married and went to Ohio where work was at that time. From there, they went
to Michigan. They raised 6 children and adopted my sister and myself....so in
reality they raised 8 children.

I guess my grandmother was a Rosie the Riveter. She welded during the war.
During their early life, they worked at the steel mills. They went through the
depression era and rations, the whole shebang.

My grandfather loved to read and he most always had a book in his hands.

They were very good people and the type of people that everyone wants to
know.

The pont is, there is a job for everyone and no, you absolutely do not need
a college education to succeed in life or to be happy in life. They were very
happy outgoing people with too many friends to count. They did not spend
frivolously and knew how to handle their money well.

College isn't everything, they'd be the first to tell you that. However, my
grandmother would tell you strongly, to take advantage of every bit of
education you can possibly get and to focus on getting the best job you can.

I don't know about other countries but it is very unfortunate that finance isn't
taught to children from an early age. Sure, they teach math. I am speaking
economics, budgeting, and spending. In my opinion, there is not enough
life sciences taught in school.

There is certainly plenty of people that have never gone to college and probably
just as many that went no further than grade school. These people are not
stupid. Many have gone on to make very good money as truck drivers,
construction workers, and even owning their own small businesses.

The person that makes the money at McDonalds is the small business person
that purchased into the franchise, and management no doubt makes a nice
adequate living too.

By the way, there is nothing wrong with working at McDonalds. What's wrong
is when people can work but make excuses not to and instead choose to live
off the state/government.

Getting a degree does increase your chances of getting a better job but not by much. These days the focus is on what someone can do rather than what qualification they have. The workplace is becoming more application-oriented instead of qualification-oriented.

In tech, a degree is almost embarrassing. If you say you're a CompSci grad, everyone rolls their eyes - because in CompSci you learn how to be a structured code, objected oriented, code monkey. The big multinationals want CompSci grads, but everyone else is more interested in seeing your git logs (the tech equivalent of a portfolio).

You'll impress an interviewer more if you ported doom to ASCII art for fun than if you've got ten years experience in whatever it is they're recruiting for, You do have to learn, you just don't need to learn formally.

The only way to make money today. You have to be smart person earn big bucks. This happening around the world. If you only earn high school diploma. No one is going hired you. They want a college graduate to hired your job.

We are not living the old days like grandma, grandpa. Working harder doesn't cut it anymore if you have no education.

Today young people want to do computer jobs now.