What is wrong with having just a Highschool Diploma?

Answer 1

Years ago, say during John D. Rockefellar the I's lifetime,
just possessing a high school diploma would have carried a lot
of academic weight.
But that was in the early stages of the twentieth century, and
one didn't need a lot of education to survive, as most of us
were immigrants, and barely had a grammar school education,
my grandfather was a dirt farmer from Fort Wayne, Indiana.

But, now, today we have an altogether different mind-set on
climbing the success ladder via effective job search and job
acquisition, as most employers these days demand more
education from all of their hirees or applicants.

While I sympathize with those who have less than a high school diploma, still we have to move society along and upward.
The only way we can as a society go onward and upward, we
have to embrace more education, as the world has shrunk in
terms of transportation and communications.
This includes family values, the very core of democracy, to help
continue our culture, our races, etc.
The propagation of our society, as we know it, vitally depends on
the making of good, smart decisions that face us, within our lifetimes.
That means we will need statesmen filled with perspiscacity
and vision (Winston Churchill and FDR come to mind) to
help steer the ship of state, America, and keep her out of stormy waters and twenty foot groundswells.

You have to measure how far we have come, in order to see how much further we wish to go, with this great experiment
called the United States.
There is no other country in the world that has all the freedoms and rights that America does, the due process of law, Constitutional rights, telephone call, Miranda Rights for the
criminal justice system, and a few others.
Every foreign country there is have become jealous over our
rate of technological change on all occupations and careers.
Also the quality of living in the USA is bar none the highest in the
world, thats why we have all the immigration hitting our
shores, they want a piece of the "American Dream", too
Unfortunately, we cannot allow immigration entrance en masse,
they bring diseases with them, disloyalties, illiteracy, and non
payment of their fair share of taxation, which is slowly choking/shrinking
the Middle Class of the United States.

Plus we have to worry about terrorism, and help another
foreign country fight their civil war(Iraq) I don't think the end
justifies the means, (cost to date: over 8 hundred billion dollars
for guns, munitions and support, 3,000 US military lives lost,
when will it end?
And we still have to address the border security problem, along
with air port security and other infra-structure weak points in the
USA.

So, whats my point? Simply this, high school diplomas don't
go far enough anymore, you need more, at least an associates
or better batchelor's in any discipline other than liberal arts, post
graduate MBA is still better, and if you can hang wih all that time spent in the academics, a Ph.D is always an impressive
plaque to hang on your office wall.

But, remember this, nothing can take the place of common sense, no matter how much education you pile up, still your base
intellect of processing data is the best judge, education just
helps you find information a little quicker upon demand, common sense is always the boss, or the key manager, as common sense aids you in all of your life's experiences, so you can make
more well informed decisions in any major or minor crisis you
may have to face, as most of us have had to do, at one time or another.

I hope I have answered your question, try to find some way to increase your education, I went to night college for 11 years,
while working a full time job, and was a member of the US Naval
Reserve, too.
Most any California community college has remedial courses to
take in English and Mathematics, other solids too, of course
residents fees, are lower than non-residents fees (tuition)

Thats my message, good luck.


Donald H. Sites
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Answer 2

There is nothing "wrong" with just having a High School diploma.

But the good paying jobs where you can earn enough money to live decently and save for your retirement are running away.

So, no matter your experience, you will compete for the same jobs that people with degrees are going for, and with only a high school diploma you will lose. Every single time.

If you do not plan on moving out of your parents home, or buying your own house, a new car, or even a nice vacation, the HS diploma will do you just fine.

People just do not realize that the days of finding a great job that will take care of you for life are over. We have run so many manufacturing jobs (that fuel the economy and every other industry) out of this country and slowly, but surely, there will not be good unskilled jobs left for anyone.

Get a 4 year degree or expect to make hundreds of thousands less over the course of your lifetime.

Answer 3

Find out what interests you and the level of education required for that field. Many people are able to succeed in life w/just a HS diploma, but it takes A LOT of hard work. You will always have to start at the very bottom of a company whatever that is and WORK your way up. Then as you are working your tail off, you will watch as newly graduated college kids who are younger than you get hired for positions that are two or three levels above you.

My advice:
If you don't want to do 4 yr of college. Go to a trade school of some kind. Nursing is HUGE and pay is great. You can get an LPN license in 11 or 12 months.

Answer 4

Nothing is wrong, but people with college degrees are going to be a more desirable canidate if up against them for a job. It depends on what you want to do, a lot of jobs a highschool diploma is just not enough. Employers require more education and in that way it can hurt you.

Answer 5

Nothing. I have a college diploma, and I work with some (not all) and we all make more or less the same money. My company values experience over education. Education means you can sit in a classroom and take a test; experience means you can do the job well. Only problem is that while I'm still paying my college loans, my no-college colleagues are laughing all the way to the bank :-) Not all companies are like mine, but looks like a lot of them are catching up.

Answer 6

Your earning potential is far below those with college degrees.

The average bachelor's degree recipient earns about 75 percent more than someone with only a high school diploma, according to the College Board, and over a lifetime the earning potential gap between the high school diploma and a bachelor's or higher degree will exceed $1 million.

Answer 7

There is absolutely nothing wrong with it! Don't let people tell you that you can earn more by getting a degree. That all depends on the job you get. I have waitressed for 20 years, and I make more than my sister. Who by the way is a registered nurse. And I always have. She gets really mad about that. If you get into the right place it is possible. And, if everyone got a degree, who would be there to check out our groceries, or who would we pay for gas, or who would wait on us when we don't want to cook, or who would pick up our garbage? I think you get the jist of that now. It takes all kinds of people in this world. Not all degrees. We would be in serious trouble if that were the case. And with so many people getting degrees, the blue collar folks jobs are going to be in demand.

Answer 8

Nothing is wrong with having just a high school diploma. It is just these days everybody wants u to have college and then that doesn't always help.

Answer 9

Depends on what you want to do. A high school education proves you have a very basic knowledge form a lot of different generalized subjects. People with high school educations get paid less and have a more difficult time finding gainful employment because having a college education shows the ability to retain and utilize advanced knowledge and shows the capacity to learn. Not to mention a more specific or focused base of information.

Answer 10

As lengthy as you're carrying on with to be taught and develop - excellent paintings! While a GED isn't 'most of the time' viewed a signal of pleasant accomplishment, that is only a generality. Probably b/c regularly many men and women give up after that. You're relocating onwards and upwards! As a long way as paintings, organizations will seem at your final accomplishment. If you may have a measure, your HS is entirely inappropriate. Anyway, the beyond can not be transformed so what is foremost is "Today".