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Yes. Speaking for the US, if your personal goals include having things like PTO and health insurance you're going to want the degree. Most white collar jobs are
by giraffe_lady 5y ago
Yes. Speaking for the US, if your personal goals include having things like PTO and health insurance you're going to want the degree. Most white collar jobs are off limits without a degree in something, even if entirely unrelated to the job itself.
Not that there aren't other paths, or non-degree-gatekept jobs with those things. But they are harder and fewer and becoming increasingly so.
Programming is one of the few prestigious, highly paid jobs left that doesn't have a pretty hard req on having a degree to get into. That's why I do it. But yes I've also run into all the things you mention.
- randomdata 5y ago> if your personal goals include having things like PTO and health insurance you're going to want the degree. Only ~40% of Americans have completed some level of post-secondary schooling, and only ~30% have a college degree. ~60-70% of jobs do not offer PTO and health insurance? That seems a little hard to believe. The BLS indicates that 79% of jobs offer PTO.
- sarchertech 5y ago79% of full time jobs maybe. But that doesn’t include gig work, contract jobs, self employed people, day laborers etc…
- whimsicalism 5y ago> The BLS indicates that 79% of jobs offer PTO. Sure, but that PTO is pretty... not great outside of salaried careers. For instance, for 5 years of work at Starbucks, you can get a maximum of ~2 weeks paid vacation across those 5 years in California (which has specifically friendly legislation to encourage this).
- robbedpeter 5y agoNetworking and other IT fields are pretty open. Degree requirements are lazy gatekeeping by organizations too big to hire people that actually care.