Ana the Ist
Aggressively serene!
I don't believe there is such a thing as a worthless degree.
Consider that at one point in the past....you could have studied phrenology.
You can't study that now....because it was a scientific theory and science has a tendency to disprove bad theories and discard them.
If what you study has no basis in factual reality....it's hard to imagine any value that could ultimately be derived from it.
If you put two people up for a job and one has a BA in women's studies and one has a GED. the person with the degree will get the job every time.
Lol that's a great example. Let's assume this is true, and let's assume that the reason is that despite not believing or having any use for anything in "women's studies" our businesses hire more people with the college degree....and less people with the GED.
Here's the test...do they perform better or worse than the GED on average?
We might find out after 5 years, the problems of hiring these college students with "women's studies" degrees are mainly a result of these employees focusing more on "workplace culture" or "political advocacy" than doing actual work. Our CEO is constantly being bombarded with demands he release public statements regarding social issues or protests will happen. This doesn't happen at those branches of the business where they hire GED employees who integrate more successfully to their jobs.
What happens to the value of the degree over time? Worth even less than the GED, right? Did the GED change value?
If the last 10 years of college students repeat this over and over....those degrees become worthless.
So their prospects aren't nil, they just might not be able to work in their chosen field for a while.
I disagree. If you spend 100k on a degree and can't find a job that will allow you to pay off the 100k in loans you owe....and any job you can find is something you could have gotten with a GED.....your degree, in a monetary evaluation, is worth -100k.
It's not that the job market is bad....it's that you pursued something you found interesting, but is worthless.
I mean you're talking to someone who went to college, got a relatively worthless degree, and the only upside is my job criteria requires one. It doesn't really matter which one. I could have pursued the cheapest and easiest degree and got the same job. If I were working with people doing my job and they've only graduated high school? I've done nothing but burn money.
They used to offer degrees in "forensic psychology" which isn't even a real job. It's just something people believed was a job because of movies like Silence of the Lambs and TV shows like CSI.
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