We're just in a really bad "liquid" economy right now, so it's easy to feel that narrative of "college degrees are useless".
They aren't useless, but as tuition rises it is inevitably going to be a worse investment. Not to the point where trades are worth its equally annoying but different kind of annoyance, though. Pay depends on unions, and get into trade unions is anything but a meritocracy.
Well, there's a couple different things a degree can be used for.
If you actually use specific things you learned, it's useful in the way that training and certification is useful.
If you don't, it's mostly just an indicator of "this person is at least this smart". Which only really matters to the extent that employers use it to save time on interviews.
bdangubic|1 year ago
johnnyanmac|1 year ago
They aren't useless, but as tuition rises it is inevitably going to be a worse investment. Not to the point where trades are worth its equally annoying but different kind of annoyance, though. Pay depends on unions, and get into trade unions is anything but a meritocracy.
tbrownaw|1 year ago
If you actually use specific things you learned, it's useful in the way that training and certification is useful.
If you don't, it's mostly just an indicator of "this person is at least this smart". Which only really matters to the extent that employers use it to save time on interviews.