COLLEGE
Sports. Exams. The final "test" of life
But is it really worth the cost?
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This is only in terms of bachelors degrees and jobs that don't require a degree. This means nothing medical, law, some sciences, etc
Recently I was in a heated, one-sided, two minute argument with my mom that essentially consisted of:
I don't wanna go to college mom
what the forget do you mean you don't wanna go to college you'll be working at mcdonalds if you don't
Now. I can understand where she's coming from on that fact, a lot of jobs do require degrees. Like anything in the medical field. Or perhaps in a scientific field. Or perhaps in something in art.
But what about the rest of us? I like the idea of working in public relations or marketing. Those typically do not require a degree...
Let's talk facts:
roughly 54% of college grads are either under-employed OR unemployed
in 2011, a little more than 50% of all college grads in the US were unemployed
But don't take my word for it, do your own research, draw your own conclusions, or if you want all of the resources I've gathered, here's my list (I'll update to make this look pretty later with article titles, just wanted to get this topic rolling):
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/04/53-of-recent-college-grads-are-jobless-or-underemployed-how/256237/http://www.gallup.com/poll/164321/majority-workers-say-job-require-degree.aspxhttp://www.annarbor.com/business-review/do-the-jobs-of-the-future-require-a-college-degree/http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/05/28/half-of-college-grads-are-working-jobs-that-dont-require-a-degree/http://businessjournal.gallup.com/content/164108/college-worth.aspxhttp://priceonomics.com/is-college-worth-it/http://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2072670,00.htmlhttp://www.cnbc.com/id/100989025http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/college-education-really-guarantee-better-job-15236.htmlhttp://www.nas.org/articles/10_Reasons_Not_to_Go_to_Collegehttp://www.scholarships.com/resources/college-prep/preparing-for-college/why-students-dont-go-to-college/http://www.badassyoungmen.com/reasons-not-to-go-to-college.htmlhttp://www.greatschools.org/college-prep/3077-cb-extras-1-2-HaveCollegeTalkNow.gshttp://collegefinancialaidadvisors.com/10-reasons-to-go-to-collegehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-reeves/advice-college-grads_b_1465343.htmlhttp://www.businessinsider.com/these-two-charts-prove-a-college-education-just-isnt-worth-the-money-anymore-2012-6http://agora.rpgclassics.com/showthread.php?31019-Why-a-Bachelor-s-Degree-doesn-t-mean-much-anymorehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-nielsen/the-college-myth-why-coll_b_827633.html
I don't want to go to college, because I see it as a waste of almost $100,000. I know a handful of people who work jobs that make more than $75,000 a year and have no college education. Better yet, I was doing some more research on my laptop at lunch, which is already weird on it's own because apparently nobody has ever seen a laptop in my school even though it's all super-rich-white-elites and the occasional minority group, and one of my teachers came up, talked with me, and said both of her parents never went to college and were extremely successful: her father working for a chain-establishment of some kind (something along the lines of Lowes / Home Depot, she mentioned something about him being in charge of where new establishments go) and she never mentioned her mother's job. Let's make it personal now: My mom works as a global communications manager for the world's largest chemical company. I'm not gonna say how much she makes, but it's freakishly high. Now you would think she would have a degree in communications, right? Wrong. Art.
The last time she made an advertisement was almost a year and a half ago, and it wasn't even her job, she was filling in for someone else.
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share your thoughts and opinions on college. Are you going to college? Are you NOT going to college? Who's paying? Do you think you'll get your money's worth out of it?
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