No, the problem is that too many people were pushed to get degrees that don’t lead to a career path, and go into debt to do so. It’s caused non-specific degrees to be worthless by oversaturation.
You don’t need a bachelor’s for philosophy or history. Go read books or take online courses if you’re interested, but do so alongside learning skills for a career. You can make a lot of money in the trades, and it doesn’t prevent you from learning more for your own enjoyment
I guess people are missing my point. People aren’t getting those useless degrees for no reason. They’re getting them to avoid being discriminated against, and even though, yes they are useless in a practical sense, avoiding that discrimination is pretty valuable.
And who cares? A lot of people in the trades make more than even engineers. Who cares if someone acts like you’re uneducated when you’re earning 3x as much as them and they have to call you to get stuff fixed.
I makes 0 sense to go 6 figures inti debt to get an arts degree just to later become a barista at Starbucks or an HR rep. And that discrimination won’t end until people start bucking the trend
No, the problem is that too many people were pushed to get degrees that don’t lead to a career path, and go into debt to do so. It’s caused non-specific degrees to be worthless by oversaturation.
You don’t need a bachelor’s for philosophy or history. Go read books or take online courses if you’re interested, but do so alongside learning skills for a career. You can make a lot of money in the trades, and it doesn’t prevent you from learning more for your own enjoyment
I guess people are missing my point. People aren’t getting those useless degrees for no reason. They’re getting them to avoid being discriminated against, and even though, yes they are useless in a practical sense, avoiding that discrimination is pretty valuable.
And who cares? A lot of people in the trades make more than even engineers. Who cares if someone acts like you’re uneducated when you’re earning 3x as much as them and they have to call you to get stuff fixed.
I makes 0 sense to go 6 figures inti debt to get an arts degree just to later become a barista at Starbucks or an HR rep. And that discrimination won’t end until people start bucking the trend