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Originally Posted by Dottore
You completely miss the point. Higher education is both about opening your mind and learning skills.
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One can open their mind FAR better in the REAL world than they can in some little liberal dream world afaic.
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Originally Posted by Dottore
Being a charlatan with a photoshopped degree is a pretty stupid career plan IMO.
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Yet the charlatan with the photoshopped degree will make just as much as you- faster- and without wasting $100k and facing 10 years or more of loan payments. (BTW, i do not do this, but i know a lot of people that have/do)
Let's face it, if you actually learned anything in college people wouldn't be able to pull that little game off, would they? The fact that any schmoe on the street can photocopy a degree and still hold and even excel at the job is proof positive that college isn't teaching you anything you need to do the job that you cannot get in a mere few weeks/months of OJT to begin with.
For some areas- medicine, engineering, chemistry, etc, sure, you need it. But for most fields? Total waste of money. I honestly learned more in one week working in a shop than i did in 18 months of tech school.
A few years ago i was going to go for MSCSE and several tech guys i knew told me it was a total waste of money, and that the things you'd learn are useless in the field, and that i'd learn far more working at a place like comp useless or equiv than i would ever learn in one of those computer schools. IOW, it was no different than my experience in the auto/diesel field. I paid $10k + to learn, essentially, nothing that i could not have learned in a few weeks of OJT.
That's the reality of the situation. I know it's not going to be popular with the "higher education" lovers here, but it's the truth.