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Many adults were told college was the only way to go. Those who went through college and those who didn't. Doesn't matter the debt. It's always better. Except

by mfer 4y ago

Many adults were told college was the only way to go. Those who went through college and those who didn't. Doesn't matter the debt. It's always better. Except it's not. First, society is going to have too few skilled trades folks in the coming years due to people retiring and not being replaced. Second, a lot of college degrees can't get someone a good job. I remember someone telling me they had a business degree and couldn't get a job managing a store at the mall.

cudgy 4y ago
A business degree makes the candidate over-qualified for managing a mall store is the likely reason. They are afraid of the employee using the position as a stepping stone to a higher paying, higher status job.
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- lotsofpulp 4y ago
  I am under the impression that business/communications bachelors degrees were a signal that the degree holder took the easy way out in school. It was considered the fallback degree when I went to college 20 years ago, since anyone could graduate with it with minimal effort.
  - quartesixte 4y ago
    Business degrees are good if you leverage the actual purpose of the degree correctly: networking and prestige status. Communications can be good if your school is in the middle of a communications hub. Which, for US students, boils down to Los Angeles and New York City. But a lot of the worth of that degree comes from its ability to unlock internships and networking inside the two biggest media markets in the US, if not the entire world. So not entirely worthless but only lucrative in specific cities and markets, and for mostly shibboleth reasons (many friends with communications degrees who also went to school in either city pull in mid-six figures working for big entertainment companies). But hey, at least you don’t have to actually study anything while spending most of your week at unpaid internships and networking events!

by mfer 4y ago

cudgy 4y ago

A business degree makes the candidate over-qualified for managing a mall store is the likely reason. They are afraid of the employee using the position as a stepping stone to a higher paying, higher status job.

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lotsofpulp 4y ago
I am under the impression that business/communications bachelors degrees were a signal that the degree holder took the easy way out in school. It was considered the fallback degree when I went to college 20 years ago, since anyone could graduate with it with minimal effort.
- quartesixte 4y ago
  Business degrees are good if you leverage the actual purpose of the degree correctly: networking and prestige status. Communications can be good if your school is in the middle of a communications hub. Which, for US students, boils down to Los Angeles and New York City. But a lot of the worth of that degree comes from its ability to unlock internships and networking inside the two biggest media markets in the US, if not the entire world. So not entirely worthless but only lucrative in specific cities and markets, and for mostly shibboleth reasons (many friends with communications degrees who also went to school in either city pull in mid-six figures working for big entertainment companies). But hey, at least you don’t have to actually study anything while spending most of your week at unpaid internships and networking events!