Spot on Soukus....
Remember that thread earlier about the girl graduating Northwestern $300k in debt with a Sociology degree?
No way would I have gotten to where I am professionally with an ITT certificate. Not saying there is something wrong with that, but college is an education:
1. Proves you are motivated to complete a hard task without parental supervision.
2. Proves you can manage money and act responsibly
3. Proves you can learn "higher" material
I never used a ton of the direct material I learned in college (Info Systems) but it trained my thought processes.
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Originally Posted by Soukus
I don't mean to single you out, but this story is too common.
First, would you have had the money to buy all those homes as investments when you were 18 yrs old? If not, then you really didn't have the opportunity to make millions.
2nd- Were you assured a $50K/yr job at 18 yrs old? If not, then college was the right decision.
Finally, why did you choose poli-sci? Were you going to gen a law degree after? How was a poli-sci degree going to make you $50k/per year back then? This is the big problem with college and what kids and their parents don't realize.
You are not guaranteed a job after college. It was never like that,meven in the 80s. Chosing a "useless" degree and wasting 4-5 years of tuition and time was not the fault of the colleges...it was the student's and the parent's fault. Some parents are tickled silly over the thought of their child going to college, but don't about think nor appreciate the bigger picture...
Basically, if you don't have a career plan before college and you chose a degree that can't be marketed and will not be in demand in 4-5 yrs, rethink college.
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