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This. Not every job or career needs a college education. A lot of college tracks, such as a lot of liberal arts, while useful in the general sense have few corr
by yumraj 7y ago
This. Not every job or career needs a college education. A lot of college tracks, such as a lot of liberal arts, while useful in the general sense have few corresponding career paths with a resumable ROI for all the debt that those paths lead to.
And, what is worse is that in general there is no, or very limited, concept of on job training. Everyone wants experts who can become productive on day one.
- shados 7y agoThe amount of time you hear "I dont use anything I learnt in college, its all about experience on the job!" definitely screams "we need to encourage apprenticeship-type learning over college".
- yumraj 7y agoYes, exactly, that's what I had kinda meant that a lot of jobs require more apprenticeship type training, than a formal college. Apprenticeships might also lead to career mobility. Try a job/training, if you don't like it, try something else. In a 4-year college you end up making a commitment where sunk-cost fallacy kinda prevents you from just moving on to something else if things don't work out.
- shados 7y agoYup. College is often an apprenticeship too (just super expensive) anyway, with how common co-op programs are (which are basically just apprenticeships)