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That may be true, but I think there's more to the "regret" group. Consider this: I have a degree, so it's in my economic best interest to try and inflate the
by maqr 16y ago
That may be true, but I think there's more to the "regret" group.
Consider this: I have a degree, so it's in my economic best interest to try and inflate the importance of that degree in the job market.
I can do that by trying to raise the status of my school (see: alumni donations) or by putting down those without degrees (see: degree requirements for jobs). In practice, I'm so disgusted by the entire system that I don't have any desire for my degree to have importance.
This strange thing that's happening is that people with degrees aren't defending them nearly as vigorously. I think the reality is finally setting in that having a degree is not a good discriminating factor for employment. This is awkward to the large group of people who only sought a degree for better career opportunities. Like angry rioters, one possible (though perhaps illogical) course of action for the degreed-but-unemployed might be to tear down the facade of the degree.
- shadowfox 16y ago> I have a degree, so it's in my economic best interest to try and inflate the importance of that degree in the job market Conversely it is in the interest of people who do not have a degree to deflate the importance of the degree in the job market?
- maqr 16y agoOf course. Are you suggesting that this isn't true?
- cwp 16y agoOf course. I do it every chance I get.
- bad_user 16y agoNot for entrepreneurs. I don't have a college degree, and I'm glad I don't as that would have been waisted time -- but I had to interview people, and the quality of people coming from a certain university in my city is much higher than the rest of the bunch. I even go as far as thinking that there might be something wrong with people not having a degree, so I definitely bring the point up in interviews. But a degree can also work against you. If the quality of a university is known to be poor, the candidate would be better off not mentioning it in resumes. So it's definitely about branding. People complain about the unfairness of the latest trends in regards to contributions to open-source, which look really good on people's resumes. But a portfolio of works released to the public works much better for software developers that a shitty university. On the other hand, whenever I hear MIT or Berkley, my eyes lighten up. So having (or not) a degree depends on lots of factors.
- yid 16y ago> I don't have a college degree, and I'm glad I don't as that would have been waisted time Ouch, talk about a bad time to make a typo ("waisted")
- bad_user 16y agoEnglish is not my native language, it isn't even my second language and I don't live in an English-speaking country. And not that I don't appreciate a good spanking, but I really dislike grammar Nazism and ad-hominems.