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If you hadn't gone to college you would have been doing something else during those years and you could have gotten job leads from somebody else somewhere else.
by glenra 14y ago
If you hadn't gone to college you would have been doing something else during those years and you could have gotten job leads from somebody else somewhere else. You can know that the job lead you got was good, but you have no way of knowing that your lead was better than you might have gotten by going to a jobs fair or some sort of special-interest convention or local community center.
And note that you could have taken humanities courses at a community college or audited them for free at a private college or done self-study. You don't have to be paying full college tuition to "open your mind" that way.
- tjr 14y agoI took my humanities courses because I was required to. At the time, I would have been happy if all of my classes were math/CS. But afterwards, as in, a few years later, I realized that I probably would have learned most of the technical stuff on my own. It was being forced to study the non-technical that really taught me something new and interesting that I likely wouldn't have learned on my own. This year marks ten years since I graduated. I cannot prove that college was a worthwhile thing, but I look back on that time very favorably.
- sp332 14y agoyou could have gotten job leads from somebody else somewhere else. I'm not sure this is really true. I wasn't out of school yet, I had very few contacts. In fact after that first job I was effectively out of work for 9 months. College let me go to classes a bit, study a bit, and do whatever I wanted the rest of the time, while still getting the benefits of a huge professional network at the end. Hitting up job fairs for months on end was equally effective as following up on a single email my advisor sent me.