Does a University degree give you the best edge for life?

Answer 1

No, knowing what you want to do gives you the best edge for life.

Imagine for a minute that you go to university to get a degree in... Uh, something. You'll spend two years partying, three years deciding on a major, and two to six more years actually getting the degree. During that time you will have effectively earned jack, because your student loans are too much of you to pay off with your part time job.

Suppose you had instead gotten a job as a janitor in McDonald instead. You'd be earning very little, but you would have no student loans to pay, and there's a minute possibility that you get promoted in the company. Suppose you know where you want to work, and start at the bottom of that company right out of highschool. You'll be ambitious, and try hard to learn the job, so you will get promoted pretty fast, and wind up in middle management with a reasonable nest egg by the time you hit middle management.

Of course, if you know what you're doing at the University, you can get a degree in something useful pretty fast, find yourself in middle management, pay off your student loans, and be slightly better off than the guy that went right into the business.

It's all a matter of planning and luck.

Answer 2

A general degree from a general university would have given you an 'edge' in life, five to ten years ago. With more and more people going to college these days, it seems as if everyone has or will be obtaining a degree. Being so commonplace, one could hardly call it an 'edge.'

Staying within the realm of academics, one can only truly gain an edge these days if he/she focuses more on a specialized science. That is to say, engineering, law, medicine, etc. One can specialize within these fields and therefore remain a minority among the population. Examine the average salaries of those who have these specific degrees, and compare them to the portion of the general population who have an unspecialized four year degrees.

Answer 3

Really the only education that is going to give you an "edge" these days is a Masters Degree and a Doctorate....at the minimum you are looking at 4 years to obtain an Honours Degree or the equivalent in your area and another 2 years to get a Masters Degree....a bachelors degree or certificate really doesn't get you anywhere anymore.

Answer 4

statistically a degree will in fact increase one's chances of "success" in life. i.e. More money, free time, education etc. SO YES

Answer 5

Being born a Bush or a Kennedy or in any other rich family would be better.

Answer 6

stastically yes