Reading an article by the BBC on how many find college degrees irrelevant got me started thinking. I know young people who have four year university degrees who can't spell or punctuate properly. On paper they look like someone who dropped out after the sixth grade.
Most degrees do not lead to a vocation. The degree may just as well be in basket weaving or English literature. A few degrees do lead to a job. Accounting, Engineering, Law. These degrees which will get you a good job are normally much more demanding.
Most of the kids I know who are either about to get their degree or who have recently earned it are horribly in debt due to their student loans. I seriously doubt whether having a degree will get them the good job they want. Paying back these student loans is going to be a horrible burden. Some of these kids are almost 30 years old and still have not yet gotten that first job of their career. Some even still live at home with their Mommie.
Quotes from the BBC article:
“I think a lot of people do think having a degree is a guarantee for success and I don't think so.”
“You have to have some ambition, some drive to go forward and really do something with that degree. Just having a a degree doesn't guarantee a job.”
“Perhaps there has just been too much emphasis on going to university."
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