Do Degrees have inherent value ?

omg i cannot wait until you get a fricking job and have to worry about real-life shite instead of this silly garbage.

He is so insecure about his education. It's psychotic.

Touche. But certain jobs are much more picky, especially professional ones.

You can be a really good biology student. But if the job is forestry related, the guy with forestry degree will probably get it. Even if you went to better school and have some relevant experience, your education will be your undoing.

Baw....you do the educational equivalent of putting the pussy on a pedestal

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Most people should decide what they want to do and enter some sort of of training. Our current system is totally messed up and is why we have a mounting debt crisis.

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As someone with 2 degrees, I completely agree. Including myself, I know several students from both schools who are easily over 35 k in debt and take out more loans because the market says we need to.

I wish you were smart enough to land a job so you wouldn't be posting stupid shite about your poor choice of degrees and schools.

It is as valuable as it has to be. You could end up with a job doing something you could have done without a college degree. You could get a job doing something that other people do, who doesn't have a degree. If you are an engineer you are qualified to apply for jobs that people with no degree is not able to apply for. I have an uncle who is retired from Dow, has been for about 15 years.

He went to college for a few semesters before getting the job, but he pretty much worked his way into a engineer type job. He didn't have the degree to be called an engineer, but he worked as an engineer. Of course he came up in a different time, but in today's world you just have to take the opportunities that you have. It might not be a job you want, but if you can deal with having that particular job, use it to elevate yourself.

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He is so insecure about his education. It's psychotic.

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I made a thread long ago that explains why I am so insecure. You would be to if you were in my situation.

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I can see where your coming from. I have read about occurrences like that.

However, it also depends on the industry your in. In an industrial setting you have room to move up. If you are a teacher, you can only teach and the only real moving up is via administration. You would have to leave one setting for another if you want different work.

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Yeah but you need a degree to teach and that degree is only worth a teacher's salary. With that said, people decide to become teachers. You can get your teaching certificate and probably find a job right away.

There are people with degrees who have customer service jobs. I don't know much about the customer service industry but I would think that having a degree is irrelevant. I doubt someone with a degree who does just enough to get by will get promoted to manager over the hard working person who knows all about the job.

If you are in Louisiana you are limited. Right now, unless you extremely smart, the best thing to do is go get a skill. A plumber, working in the mechanical field (air conditioners and shite), etc. Networking is probably your best bet to get a job that you want, but its not an easy time right now.