College Degrees Expensive & Worth Less in Job Market

Time Magazine article speaks some truth about college.

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Education

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• college
• degrees
• jobs
• university

[ginad17]

Not everybody goes to college to make money. I am an education major I know I will never be rich and I know that there are people who will not go to college and make more than I will. I don't care about that. I don't go around telling people not to go to college, why are you picking on people who decide to go to college. You jealous that you don't have a college degree?

[DontGoToCollege]

@ginad17 No, I'm not jealous. Anyone who is somewhat functionally literate (or not) can get a college degree. I was an engineering major and am a member of three academic honor societies. My main concern about college is the student loan racket. I want people to realize how bad student loan debt is and that a college degree is not an automatic ticket to a decent job.

[Rototill27]

@HarvardBoxer

Education is not overrated....a COLLEGE education is overrated. If you want to educate yourself, go to the library or use the internet.

[dutytocareforothers]

@Rockynurse We do need more technical schools that can give you a valuable certificate within one year. The courses should involve intense technical training in a variety of corporate related fields that will be useful for employment. But the pitiful side to all of this "better education" disease is that corporations keep off shoring jobs. It's their sneaky way in making profits. It has been going on for decades. It's nothing new. But it looks like it could get worse.

[jabjabgrab123]

@JesusPaid4You what course your doing beauty therapy the course im doing aint no walk over its god damn hard and boring. Im doing civil engineering its no piece of cake. My brother thought i was being a bitch complaining about how hard my course was. I showed him my lecture notes and he shat himself because he did bio-medical science which he told me wasnt nowhere near as hard.

[JesusPaid4You]

College is unbelievably easy. All you people who think you are in a "hard" major, oh please, there are no hard majors. College is a piece of cake for everyone of us unless you're some kind of drunk or something then don't expect anything out of life.

[JesusPaid4You]

I am getting a M.S. degree at UF in Forensic Science, chemistry, and it is sooooo easy breezy. It's on online program. And that's what I'm doing, avoiding the real world as long as possible, a 30-year-old career student, making straight-A's taking out student loans I'll never pay back. Kidding. Or maybe I'm not kidding. Well, just watch, failure to pay back student loans (SO EASY to get), will be the next housing market crash type phenomenon.

[redoctober90]

@SenneffRules Well, for someone who doesn't have the finances to solicit a random survey of the American population, I think it's a pretty good cross section. The high school I went to had both Section 4 public housing and million-dollar estates within the boundary, and living in Pennsylvania means we have the upper and lower classes within miles of each other. And I don't think of it as much as the self esteem factor as much as it is crafting an expectation for the road ahead.

[SenneffRules]

@redoctober90 You're the type of person who looks at everyone's facebook so you can measure their success to yours just for your own self gratification and self esteem which isn't too high when you have to compare yourself to your friends on facebook judging by what their profile says.

[redoctober90]

@redoctober90 So, in general, the job market sucks right now, and yes, it is a good idea to do what you are good at. But keep in mind that like I said in your other video, it is important that you always update your resume with new skills and such and never sit pat on your accomplishments. All of the people who I work retail with who are my age have college degrees or are getting one. I will say skill is to knowledge as a transmission is to an engine, so I contest your "skill=knowledge" comment.

[redoctober90]

I'd say in tandem with that that time is of the essence. I looked at my Facebook friends list from people with high school, college, and grad level work. Let it be said that we all are employed. But I will say that those who pursued higher degrees generally are doing better and buying homes at 25. Most of my fellow B.S. earners from Penn State, Pitt, et al. are all in the field after graduating. A couple of us college goers are working retail. The HSers are simply doing menial labor since '04.

[kichaawetu]

my worthless degree without debt im loving my waitress job

[veloreb]

10.6% is the unemployment rate for new college grads. What are the rates for UNDEREMPLOYMENT for new college grads? I mean those college grads who may or may not be doing something related to their major but get paid something ridiculously lower than their education level would warrant 10, 20, 25 years ago. What about rates of underemployment? Things that make you go HMMMM. ;-)

[iamprotoss1]

It's all about social networking. it's all about who you know. if you want something just get it. don't whine dont cry about it just go get it!