It's applicable for most people in their 20's... unless you're talking about manual labor or working at a Popeyes or something... Your degree usually matters for your first job these days...
I am trying to word this correctly since two different issues are being combined. First point was whether a specific school matters. For some fields, absolutely. My contention is that it does not for most. The majority of degrees are going to be in things like engineering, teaching, nursing, etc. When I did interviews with my company, we looked at a resume but the interview was most important. An engineering degree would almost certainly get you into the door, but a two year degree from a community college paired with a good interview would as well. Once they were hired, it was up to them how much money they wanted to make. We also purged the deadbeats regardless of school every downturn. Second point that Maris was making was that the government propaganda promoting school as a good investment is usually false. Again, I saw just as many classmates of mine that buried themselves in debt and are still paying for it compared to those that made college worthwhile financially. Average them out and they probably equal the classmate that went into a skilled trade or factory job.
I worked 3 jobs at the same time to pay for my college education. Fortunately, one of those jobs was renting ice skates at the ice arena. I only had to work between classes, checking in skates from the previous class and renting out ones for the upcoming class. While class was going on, I was able to study. Unfortunately, Champaign-Urbana was a town of 100,000 population with 150,000 students on top of that. Virtually every job was minimum wage; if you wouldn't take the job there was someone else who was. Minimum wage was $2.50/hr. Also fortunately, the cost of education was in the $hundreds per semester back then.
Have the Lakers decided to make you move out, too? Seriously, props to you for making something of yourself.
The problem is a lot of kids think going to college and getting any degree will get them a job. You shouldnt go to college and get a communications or ethnic studies or random degree and expect a job. You should be going to a university to be a doctor, engineer, lawyer, nurse or accountant.
Whoa, you had Ski Scholarships? That is impressive! No sarcasm, here. Was this a Mountain time zone school?
You can do that? At what time difference for the kid from their age you paid to starting and/or completing?
Lol @ calling me insecure. Coming from the guy who uses his Internet handle to brag to strangers about all the people he's met and places he's been..... Yawn.
It depends where you want to live. Here in Silicon Valley, it really does matter. Whether that is right or wrong is up for debate, but it is a huge factor in landing the premium jobs here.
It is the GETS program for Washington. We bought the maximum credits for each kid when they were born. They use a formula that is supposed to pay for a four year degree at a state school and is guaranteed by the state. Tuition has increased so much that buying in now is a bad deal.
Hmm that's pretty cool! But your last statement implies tuition will go down, do you believe that to be the case?
