Why is college considered necessary for a good career? It has nothing to do with most jobs.?

Question

College is mostly a waste of time and money if the purpose of going is to advance a career. Abe Lincoln never went to college.
Many of the most successful people dropped out.

Answer 1

College is work without pay. It is not an investment, because that is what we buy with surplus income, not through sacrificing the entire income from a full-time job. The reason that this childish, insulting, humiliating, and self-destructive slavery is demanded is that fatcats love mice. The corporate bullies are neurotically driven to flatter their own egos by humiliating potential employees.

If you don't pay someone to go to college, he isn't worth anything. You get what you pay for: no-talent brown-noses, ambitious imbeciles. The 6th-Grade grammar of college graduates proves (they would use "prove") that their education is worthless and so are they. The regime made a fatal mistake in choosing to make such inferior people its flunkies. The upper-class domination freaks wanted puppets, and they got dummies. They wanted mice, and they got rats.

Answer 2

Your right, it has nothing to do with "most" jobs. It has a lot to do with specific jobs. If you are happy working in blue collar jobs, then college is a waste of time and money. But if you are interested in the white-collar world, then it is necessary. College teaches you skills that are necessary for success in most professions (there is a big difference between a profession and a job). Even the most basic classes, economics, sociology, management, add to your knowledge base and make you a more informed employee.

College not only teaches you specific things, but it teaches how to research and get information on your own, skills you will need in most white-collar professions.

The average college education costs well under $100,000. The average college graduate makes $1,000,000 more than a high school grad over a lifetime. That's a pretty good return on your money.

Answer 3

Most college courses are not really ojt (on the job training), but more like prep work for being within a working society. Unless you are on a pre-occupational tract (nursing, counseling, medical) then college is simply a tool to make you more marketable to the business community. Places of business want to see that you have great writing and oral skills, as well as the ability to be a great team mate, which you do learn the fundamentals of more so in college than in high school. Unfortunately though, college is quite expensive, so for many the price seems to outweigh the benefits. Basically though, the point of college is to learn skills that create the foundation for a future in the business world.

Answer 4

For many good jobs today a college education is necessary. I will admit that the first two years are a load of bull, you are just taking classes that you took in high school so that the college gets more money. However the closer you get to graduating the more the classes you take pertain to your major and prepare you for your job. Most good careers, like doctor, lawyer, computer programer, or teacher will not hire anyone without a college degree and when you do get a job some even pay for you to continue your education.

Answer 5

College does offer a lot of training for many careers, I am sure you want your tax preparer to have some college background or your doctor. True there are some degrees that you wonder if they are necessary, such as turf management to be a lawn maintance worker or construction management. But these degrees also give you networking skills as well as basic management techniques that work so when you get out to the workforce you don't have to learn from point A for every job and you may know people who can help you get jobs.

Answer 6

College is an excellent place to prepare for a successful career in several aspects. First, studying a wide range of disciplines will help you to discover those areas in which you are most interested and hold talent. Later, this will allow you to pursue a career in which you are passionate and dedicated to building expertise, a requirement of success. Secondly, college is place to build the kinds of skills required for the job world: dedication, organization, intellectual curiosity, good writing skills and the ability to articulate your position under pressures. Finally, never underestimate the value of a university in building future career contacts! Many people land jobs through alumni contacts - and don't forget, both Kerry and Bush were successful politicians, in part due to the contacts they acquired as party of the Skull and Bones society at Yale University.

Answer 7

Well, let me tell you a couple of things I have learned. I felt the same way you did. I didnt go to college. My parents didnt support it, and I had no money and was looking at leaving a great money making job (great for a 19 year old) to go into debt for a piece of paper that would validate me to the world. I had a good job and a good head on my shoulders so I felt like companies would see that and give me the job even without the degree.

Well, that is NOT true. I am now 38 with no degree, finding myself feeling like I should go get the darn piece of paper so people will take me serious. I actually got told a few times that everything on my resume was awesome, but they couldnt offer me the job because the "clients" wont work with someone who doesnt have some sort of degree. I have also been told that I can make $40k/year, but if i would go back and get a degree, I would make $60-70.

So it is true that you can go through life without that piece of paper saying you have gone through another boring 4 years of school, but you just have to be ok with taking mediocre jobs and feeling like you are "less" desirable. You have to be ok with making less money than someone who toughed it out. I think that people see it as you having the drive to "stick it out" at college that somehow makes you a better person that the one who just worked their butt off and learned through life experience. I wish they had a degree you could earn for toughing it out on you own. I respect those people more than the ones who have the "degree", but hey, thats just my opinion.

Go to college, you will regret it later.

Answer 8

you could say they're valueless. some stages are (to three extent). yet what a level says to an company is.. a million. you're clever. a college graduate are waiting to apply their brains or have some brains. absolutely everyone can pass severe college. 2. you're prepared to paintings. 3. you have learn/practice by execs on your container. The third one fairly lots strikes you. I propose, beneficial you're knowledgeable and you will practice your self, yet employers needs info which you're knowledgeable and ability in what you elect to do. A joe off the streets can say.. "yeah guy, I have been given As in HS in my computing gadget instructions and that i circulate to the library and examine tech books all day. i'm sturdy" learn that to a college graduate in computing gadget technological understanding from any college which could say "yeah guy, I have been given a three.5 GPA in college. I went to this faculty and alter into taught by those professors who've PhD of their areas." which sounds extra advantageous? enormous businesses like those you listed somewhat take threat with a sparkling college grad than some joe that asserts he's sturdy. Internships are tricky to return by, especially paid ones. you could desire to circulate finding classified ads or lookup specific businesses around your areas and touch their HR departments to work out in the event that they're taking interns. What I heard some human beings do is getting those low point jobs that don't require stages then working their thank you to the the terrific option. while they hit specific positions that require stages, businesses will deliver them to get an education free of value.

Answer 9

It looks better on a resume that you can stick w/ something for four years and achieve your goals.

I didn't attend college and now have a position which is mostly for college grads, however, it took me 13 years to achieve my goal, whereas if I had a college degree I could have probably achieved it in half the time. Also, I had to seriously BUST my butt to get where I am to prove that I was just as good as a college grad.

On the other side though, I probably appreciate what I have far more considering the hours I had to put in to attain it.

Answer 10

I agree....college is a moneymaking business, not really as concerned with the education of youth as in making money. When I went to college and saw all the things I had to take and pay for that had nothing to do with my intended career I asked why. I was told that it was important to have a "well-rounded" education, I replied "Oh really, what was the last 12 years I spent in school, a warm-up?"

We spend 12 years getting a well-rounded education, colleges are just trying to screw you for every cent then can get, witness the book situation. If they change one word of the text, everybody has to buy a new book every year....rip-OFF

Answer 11

Your question is, "Why is college considered necessary for a good career?"

The complication with any consideration is that a consideration itself is formed with the considerer's own perspective. Perspective is formed by the perception of an individual. Perception is tempered by: Emotional state (how one feels in that moment in time), beliefs (generalizations of what will lead to pain/pleasure), values (what feelings a person places a high importance on), habitual questions (who's perspective is the question formed), and references (what each individual has experienced). Therefore, considerations will vary widely, just as perceptions vary widely. One may be no more "right" than another in one's perceptions. For this reason, your question is vague.

The later part of your question, "It has nothing to do with most jobs.?", is really a statement. This statement cooperates with your additional comments to form the implication that in your perspective, a college education is unimportant.

Assuming that I generally understand your perspective, I would state: your perspective is as true as it is untrue. What questions can we ask to test my statement?

(1) Is there a more adequate and available system to teach the general population the knowledge and skills necessary to be a professional in: the sciences, the arts, mathematics, linguistics, medicine, etc.?

(2) Is a career an education?

(3) What purpose does a career serve?

(4) Does the term "career" mean: a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career? or does the term "career" mean: to provide for one's well being?

I believe that in the case of this question, you have formed the question with a personal belief that a college education is not necessary to make money. This is true. A person with down syndrome (retarded) can make money finding cans and coins on the street. Furthermore, a person that makes full use of the vast sea of knowledge that is available through the internet can obtain an adequate education to succeed in many fields; but not all of them. For example, it is illegal for a person in the United States to perform or act as a physician (Doctor of Medicine) without an accredited degree. Perhaps you would allow someone to perform a major surgical operation on your heart or lungs having done "a bunch of research on the internet?"

Also, one must be careful not confuse one's vocation from one's occupation. One's occupation produces the means (money) that one lives by; aka food, shelter, warmth. One's vocation is one's "calling." One's vocation is one's purpose in life.

In the instance that one does confuse these two terms, it is prudent for this person to STOP and ask, "what is the meaning of my life?" The answer to this question may lead this person to realize the value of higher education; thus compelling this person to invest in a college education.

Many people seek an occupation that is as equally satisfying as their vocation. Coincidentally, college is a platform in which many people find the available resources to teach them and provide the credibility to perform this feat; as in the person who will perform a surgical operation on your heart or lungs. This Medical Doctor invested in a college education to make a living while (most likely) simultaneously satisfying a need to live with a purpose.