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[pangaea]

pkang0202 wrote:

[Mr. Pink]

Most BA degrees need additional education to be worth something. For instance, there are plenty of post-graduate diplomas that can lead to decent job streams.

I wouldn't count on getting a "good" job with a basic BA degree unless you graduated from an ivy league school (and even there you aren't guaranteed).

[Druzyek]

My degree got me the job I have now. The owner of my Hagwon ran a business to get Korean students into American universities. She told me that she hired me because she had sent a lot of her clients to the university I graduated from. She thought I might be a good choice because I had probably gotten to know some Koreans already. She was right, the majority of the people I went to church with in college (and as a result hung out with) are Korean. So, my degree isn't worth nearly what the people back home let me think it would be before I went off to college but it did get me the job I have now.

[pkang0202]

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[Draz]

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[Triban]

Eyyyy yo I got cake like I married Betty Crockerrrrr.

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[Moldy Rutabaga]

It's important to count not only the actual costs of tuition, books, and living expenses when attending university, but also the opportunity costs. While you spent six years in university, you were not making money working and gaining job skills.

An interesting aspect the article mentions is that a university degree benefits the country you live in, generally and in the long run, outside of any immediate benefit to you. Better educated people may be more productive or less likely to be problem citizens.

If I look purely at the numbers, I was foolish to spend so many years in university, all to train for a field in which the majority make a pittance, and where very many don't find work at all. At other times I remind myself that, yes, life is more than money, and I could have a well-paying job that I loathe getting up for.

I also try to give myself a break. Our world is changing in a way it hasn't changed since the printing press or the industrial revolution. There are not many safe jobs to train for nowadays, inside or outside of university. I won't make much money doing what I do, but that doesn't mean not going to university pays off well either. I could have saved all that tuition and just been a store clerk for forty years too, making peanuts. Some gambles are worth taking.

[chellovek]

[NYC_Gal]

A BA today is like a high school diploma from 40 years ago. You need it, but it doesn't go as far as is used to. That's why many of us go on to get post graduate certs and degrees.

In NYC, one can hardly get a receptionist job without a BA. Most students there have to intern just to get a foot in the door.

[chellovek]

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