The SCAM known as college.

[TomGshotput]

Almost a total scam

The only was to get anywhere near good value to to go to Junior College or Community College for two years where tuition is only a few hundred a semester, then transfer to a relatively cheap four year state school. And do so without spending anything on text books either

As far as finding a place to put 18- and 19-year-olds college is great; as far as actual learning or job skills go people almost always overpay. Consider a 38-year-old taking home $2400 a month to do nothing but fart and watch TV all day after 20 years in the military

I just left a union job with the Department of Mental Health. They say you need a degree or experience. But they will hire anyone in a limited role and after a month that counts as experience for a regular shift. Yet a lot of people pay $10 to $20k a year for six or seven years for a pyschology degree and MSW, which is less relevent to the workforce than the experienve I gained from the five years I spent at that job

 

[oldirtyku]

Just get a degree in something that is needed.

The earning potential in comp science or accounting grows quickly a few years experience.

 

[gtc08]

my boy alwayz right is bitter about that 40k.

 

[billhill999]

He won't let it go.

 

[JakeT.]

Just get a degree in something that is needed.

The earning potential in comp science or accounting grows quickly a few years experience.

Computer science was what I would finish my degree in if I went back. I just couldn't see myself working 8 hour days in front of a computer in an office setting. Much happier working an hour in front of a computer at home while drinking beers in my underwear. But yeah, computer science degrees are worth the money put in if you can handle the work.

 

[FairWarning]

Computer science was what I would finish my degree in if I went back. I just couldn't see myself working 8 hour days in front of a computer in an office setting. Much happier working an hour in front of a computer at home while drinking beers in my underwear. But yeah, computer science degrees are worth the money put in if you can handle the work.

I went for something similar. With one year remaining, I hated it. Ended up getting two degrees, one in sales/marketing. I use the sales/marketing degree. It is much harder today with the cost. You could be chasing $40-50,000 when you graduate, and thats from a MAC school.

 

[oldirtyku]

Computer science was what I would finish my degree in if I went back. I just couldn't see myself working 8 hour days in front of a computer in an office setting. Much happier working an hour in front of a computer at home while drinking beers in my underwear. But yeah, computer science degrees are worth the money put in if you can handle the work.

Many people work from home in IT jobs. You can write code or log into most servers from anywhere...

 

[billhill999]

Computer science was what I would finish my degree in if I went back. I just couldn't see myself working 8 hour days in front of a computer in an office setting. Much happier working an hour in front of a computer at home while drinking beers in my underwear. But yeah, computer science degrees are worth the money put in if you can handle the work.

It's what I do for a living.
I monitor 12 terminals, you get sore eyes, sore neck, carpel tunnel in the fingers, where my hands at natural rest look like a claw.
It's not all fun and games.

 

[quantumleap]

Computer science was what I would finish my degree in if I went back. I just couldn't see myself working 8 hour days in front of a computer in an office setting. Much happier working an hour in front of a computer at home while drinking beers in my underwear. But yeah, computer science degrees are worth the money put in if you can handle the work.

I know lots of people who don't have degrees that are in IT. They get experience being a desktop jockey and take some classes in networking and make just as much as a person with a degree. However, I'm seeing more IT jobs requiring a degree so it does help to some extent.

It all depends on what you're going in for. For a professional (doctor, nurse, lawyer, CPA, engineer, etc.) it is a must. However, for Arts degrees it is somewhat useless and a scam. I particularly hated the fact that I had to read Shakespeare and take English and Literature and History in college. I took 12 years of English before that. It didn't help me one bit to take it in college. Neither did the other crap mentioned. It's nice if you like that sort of thing but useless for the rest of us.

Do your research before spending so much money on one thing.

 

[Dawoofdaddy]

Just get a degree in something that is needed.

The earning potential in comp science or accounting grows quickly a few years experience.

Too many people attend and graduate college with rubber stamp degrees then complain they can't find the job they want or one that pays what they think they are worth.

 

[HinesWard86]

Too many people attend and graduate college with rubber stamp degrees then complain they can't find the job they want or one that pays what they think they are worth.

A lot of this is very true.

Down here everyone just assumed that teaching would be a fallback. Problem is that a lot of the people with liberal arts degrees thought that and there aren't enough positions. I know people with history and poly sci degrees waiting tables and working at hotels.

 

[G.MONEY]

Daughter is in Med school..Hard to be a doctor with out College last I checked. It really depends on what you want to do with your life long term.

 

[steaktartar]

Hard to be a doctor with out College last I checked.

see PO69.......

 

[billhill999]

see PO69.......

ope:

 

[douglas]

an Education is something that can never be taken away from you ......

 

[Dwight_Schrute]

Any advice from the RX crowd for someone who just received their degree in Finance like myself?

 

[G.MONEY]

see PO69.......

I said a Doctor........A real Doctor....

 

[SureGuy]

Any advice from the RX crowd for someone who just received their degree in Finance like myself?

frame it

 

[FairWarning]

Any advice from the RX crowd for someone who just received their degree in Finance like myself?

Get a job in the insurance business. Commercial banking will be good also.

 

[wolfie_cr]

the very title of this thread is the reason why I will probably live enough (10 years? ROFL) to see the US lose its 'title' as 'THE World's superpower'

education is a scam , sure.............hope you enjoy your Indian and Chinese engineered everything, on the plus side you can enjoy a very nice job in the 'fast food production lines'

the scam is not education, the scam is that now to get education you have to get up to your eyeballs in debt, THAT is the scam

there is ANOTHER scam when the country that produces a drug........pays MORE for the drug than what it costs in the country immediately up north.........or anywhere else in the World for that matter

and well....let's not get started with the banks and their scams.........hno: