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In the meantime, the high school graduate has taken an entry level job and applied their own educational pursuits to move up the ladder at work and after four y
by argv_empty 14y ago
In the meantime, the high school graduate has taken an entry level job and applied their own educational pursuits to move up the ladder at work and after four years is taking on the same kinds of jobs that someone who worked hard in college is.
You conveniently forget what kind of employer is actually likely to hire people who just finished high school.
- randomdata 14y agoI am not sure how the exact job is relevant, really. Every job has problems that can be solved in new and creative ways and that's where you start to make your mark. To appeal to the local crowd: If you end up as a barista and, unsatisfied with your efficiencies, you go home and write a program that solves the optimum way to prepare the different kinds of coffee you now: a) Are a more productive and therefore more valuable employee b) Have a product that could be worth quite a bit to your employer, and perhaps the competition too c) Have professional experience writing software using algorithms that the average professional programmer cannot even utilize The catch is that you have to actually do it. Your typical high school graduate who does not go onto college generally did not go onto college because they do not have the drive to go over and above like that. That skews the statistics in such a way that it makes it look like having a degree matters.