re: Is Grad school a waste of time?

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My undergrad degree didn’t really prepare/qualify me for any decent jobs.

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What was your undergrad in?

Grad school is a wife hunt. Now that you know how to study and have gone through your super party phase....you need to find a pre-wife before grad school’s up. Someone to move with. Big city, foreign country...somewhere cool.

They can just be finishing undergrad...that part doesn’t matter.

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Grad school is a wife hunt. Now that you know how to study and have gone through your super party phase....you need to find a pre-wife before grad school’s up. Someone to move with. Big city, foreign country...somewhere cool.

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This seems like pretty good advice, especially if you spent undergrad hooking up with 50-year-old townies.

Animal Science, but a pre-professional track. Wasn’t smart enough for that in the end.

There's a one million post thread on LSUS Online MBA on the money board.

Think of all the overtime you could make instead welding or being a diesel mechanic. There’s your answer.

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Chemistry.

As a STEM field, where you do actual "Graduate Work" it was a lot of time and effort for minimal pay $23k or so per year.

It definitely delayed earning $$.
But, did raise my ceiling a bit.
The jury is still out on whether it was worth it. I'd venture to say "no" however.
In most cases regardless of field I'd say if you pay for grad school it isn't worth it.
If someone else does it might be.
I'm likely going to get an MBA on employers dime if they are willing to pay.

Sadly, like most things the answer is "it depends".

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Chem PhD here. What kind of work are you doing currently?

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As it is today College is a scam, in the old days it wasn't but in recent times it is a total scam. Most smart people don't even go to college anymore.

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There is very little downside to going to college if you do it responsibly and wisely:

- If you're smart, you can often go to college for free or very affordably.
- So the "smart" people who might opt not to go to college shouldn't be financially burdened by doing so.
- Everything said "smart" people can do without college they can probably do post-college, and often more effectively and without at least some portion of the learning curve.
- Almost every college in the country has a ton of very valuable resources there for the taking.
- A degree with at least some value provides some degree of safety net should your trade/non-college career falter.

College is overvalued in this country. I don't promote college because you need college to substantively do productive work. I promote college because society relies on hierarchical standards for jobs/careers, and college is the most common one. If you can get Enterprise to stop requiring a degree to rent cars, then great. Until then, telling people not to go to college is telling them to go tackle the world with a hand tied behind their back.

It depends on your field. In general terms, I think they are valuable. As more people get undergraduate degrees, the masters will separate them.

In my field (accounting), in order to qualify to sit for the CPA exam you have to take a certain amount of hours and some specific classes that are graduate level (varies by state). While a graduate degree is not required, by the time you are eligible to sit for the exam you are only a couple of classes short so most people go ahead and finish the MAcc.