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  • The GIGGAS
    Timbers - Jags - Hokies
    • Mar 2003
    • 28474

    #136
    Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

    Originally posted by superjames1992
    You have to look at the bright side of life now!

    Basically, I was just saying that cost of living makes all the difference in the world at how much money you make. Making $35K makes you pretty badly off in NYC, makes you lower middle class in rural USA, but will make you filthy rich in the poorest places of the world.

    $35K in London would make you really bad off. That would only be like 20K ₤ or so.
    Please re-read what I quoted. I don't disagree with your premise...
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    • MassNole
      Banned
      • Mar 2006
      • 18848

      #137
      Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

      Originally posted by Beantown
      Truthfully, if you're not from the area or not used to driving with the insane Boston drivers, it's best to leave your car somewhere and find public transportation through the city.

      Driving through most of Boston is insane. Even I hate doing it if I can avoid it.
      I go with your first choice. We usually drive to Alewife and take the T in. The one time I had to drive to Boston for an interview was a nightmare. The interview was at Suffolk and parking was RIDICULOUSLY expensive.

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      • Scottdau
        Banned
        • Feb 2003
        • 32580

        #138
        Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

        Originally posted by buckeyefan78
        This is very true but at the same time I firmly believe it's a huge mistake to believe this line of thought.

        Having spent decades in education I can honestly say the current "process" of getting a college degree actually makes one lazy/apathetic and if possible...dumb...in many if not most cases.
        I think if one take it serious it can make them more responsible, but it also comes down to what employers use as a judging stick if you know I mean.

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        • Tha_Kid
          All Star
          • Oct 2002
          • 6550

          #139
          Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

          After going a year and a half without being able to find any job, I'm feeling like a degree is underrated. I was told before graduation that a CIS degree was almost guaranteed work and that employers would be looking for graduates with little to no experience so they could bring them up doing things their way. Instead, I've got a 18 month period of looking lazy to any prospective employer.

          That said, I know that if my graduating class was any indication, the degree definitely shouldn't be the determining factor. Seems as though anyone can get one.

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          • Beantown
            #DoYourJob
            • Feb 2005
            • 31523

            #140
            Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

            Originally posted by MassNole
            I go with your first choice. We usually drive to Alewife and take the T in. The one time I had to drive to Boston for an interview was a nightmare. The interview was at Suffolk and parking was RIDICULOUSLY expensive.
            Yeah, any area around the colleges is impossible to park at. Since it looks like I may be going into Boston a bit more to visit someone who goes to school in the "Fenways" I'll be parking at the Riverside station and taking the green line in.

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            • Graphik
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              • Oct 2002
              • 10582

              #141
              Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

              I've been saying these things for years. I know more than a few people with college degrees ranging from the early 20s to mid 40s and some of these very same people are working in mailrooms, grocery stores or unemployed due to the economy. Me personally, I know I've slipped through the cracks being a HS dropout myself. Luckily, all the experience I got in my job field (9 years)landed me a job over I'm sure half a dozen candidates who had college degrees, etc.
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              • buckeyefan78
                MVP
                • Mar 2008
                • 1430

                #142
                Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                Originally posted by Graphik
                I've been saying these things for years. I know more than a few people with college degrees ranging from the early 20s to mid 40s and some of these very same people are working in mailrooms, grocery stores or unemployed due to the economy. Me personally, I know I've slipped through the cracks being a HS dropout myself. Luckily, all the experience I got in my job field (9 years)landed me a job over I'm sure half a dozen candidates who had college degrees, etc.
                What field are you in?

                Do people know you dropped out of high school?

                Just being nosy...don't mind me.

                Having spent my entire career in education, I always find it interesting when someone doesn't go the formal education route in life.

                That's probably because I've spent my entire life dealing with people who have 3 to 4 college degrees that would F up a one-car funeral.
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                • elgreazy1
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                  • Apr 2007
                  • 2996

                  #143
                  Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                  I'm in the arts (Graphic Design) and I can say a degree doesn't matter, but at the same time one has to be really talented to simply be hired on experience/merit alone. Schooling does help in my case because it allows me to build my skills, create a robust portfolio, allows me to network (professors, students, organizations, etc), and is pushing & exposing me to new finer points.

                  I equate it to being a blue chip talent & being molded by a great coaching staff.
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                  • mgoblue
                    Go Wings!
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 25477

                    #144
                    Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                    Yahoo has an article on their front page that says in people 25 and over (over the last 12 months) the unemployment rate for people with a degree is 4-6 percent lower on average compared to those without a degree...

                    Randomly saw it and thought of this thread when I read it...obviously it depends on what your field is without a degree though.

                    Link to Yahoo article
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                    • Rob. D
                      PC/PS4 Gamer
                      • Oct 2006
                      • 676

                      #145
                      Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                      Originally posted by USF11
                      Well I graduated with no debt. I am now in my last semester of my masters with 65k in debt.

                      I look at it as getting a low interest rate loan to screw around with.
                      what school are you attending and what are you going for....I was thinking about an MBA in Information Technology.

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                      • bbolo84
                        It's Far From Over...
                        • Nov 2007
                        • 134

                        #146
                        Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                        I disagree that degrees are overrated, because I feel that hiring managers want someone who has dedicated themselves to earning their education. However, i do believe that certain degrees are more useful than others. in the end, I believe that a combination of book smarts and street smarts will get you a long way in life.
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                        • NoDakHusker
                          Ice Cold
                          • Mar 2009
                          • 4348

                          #147
                          Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                          Degrees aren't overrated, in my opinion anyway. It is dependent on the particular career path you plan on taking, but someone who has a degree vs someone who doesn't? The person with the degree is more likely to get the job. I don't really believe in the life experience vs college experience argument. College prepares you and trains you for that career path, thus giving you the proper experience.

                          But whatever floats your boat.
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                          • USF11
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                            • Jun 2003
                            • 4245

                            #148
                            Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                            Originally posted by Rob. D
                            what school are you attending and what are you going for....I was thinking about an MBA in Information Technology.
                            I'm getting a double masters (additional 3 classes) and Financial Analysis and Financial Fraud. I'm a at small school on the south side of Chicago. If I had to do it differently I would of gone to a state school instead. Just for the networking ops being greater.

                            All an all the mba will get me in somewhere even if it's a temp to perm situation.
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                            • superjames1992
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                              • Jun 2007
                              • 31382

                              #149
                              Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

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                              • ehh
                                Hall Of Fame
                                • Mar 2003
                                • 28962

                                #150
                                Re: College Degrees --> Overrated

                                I used to feel this way but I disagree. What I do feel is that "name brand" schools are useless if it's not an Ivy League school. If you went to Michigan or Boston College it's no different from going to cheap state school. Now if you're going to Yale or Harvard then it's a different story. If I have children some day I will tell them (if they don't get a scholarship) to go to a community/junior college for two years and then go to the cheapest state school possible.

                                Your ability to network, schmooze and "play the game" is vitally important in most fields. And of course for us men, height and looks help a ton too.

                                Seriously, if people like you and you're decent looking you'll be okay in a lot of situations. I was a gigantic slacker in HS and college (got in a college that was way over my head academically because of a basketball scholarship - I had the 2nd lowest SAT score in our class apparently) but I'm fine now. I didn't take anything serious until I was 23 years old but I've always been a smart kid and once my career started and I applied myself I was fine. It didn't matter that I graduated with a 2.3 GPA. Half the kids that went to my school and graduated with a 4.0 don't have the social skills to stand out in their job.
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