The Price of an Education

[mbarrick]

It cost me over $30,000 to get a B.A.. The usefulness of that education remains questionable. I just spent $117.91 taking a multi-millionaire's financial advisor to lunch and gleaned a lot more useful material from it than I ever got from university.


...I feel like a SIM - You need 5 friends to advance on your career path...

Comments

my sentiments

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

That exactly why I have always been very reluctant to go back to school. A degree doesn't guarantee anyone anything except perhaps some extra bills to deal with.

I personally believe that post-secondary education is oft overhyped and now used more to filter out the intellectually-potential-yet-poor-for-cash applicants from those rich enough to afford an education. In other words, maintaining the economic power status quo from generation to generation.

Re: my sentiments

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

There was a point 50 years ago or so when only about 4% of North Americans had a post-secondary degree of any kind. In those days having a B.A. meant something and people left high-school with a functional basic education. Now Bachelor's degrees are so commonplace that high-school count on the universities to clean up after them. People with B.A.'s today are generally less well educated in basic skills than the high-school graduates of the 1950's.

Undergraduate university now is nothing more than a way to extend adolescence another 4-6 years.

Re: my sentiments

[sovietnimrod.livejournal.com]

so basically what you're saying is that it's daycare for adults?

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

A counter-point to that is that
I just got turned down for a job becasue I didn't have a peice of paper
saying I had a formal education in what I spent 10 years of my life doing.

A lot of oversea and out of country jobs also need degrees -


So I am frustrated that I don't have a degree for these opportunities but
at the same time I DO NOT want to spend any more money on school.
I am wondering what the cheapest way I could go get a degree would be
(underwater basket weaving)

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

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[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

As soon as I fill out my art test I will be well on my way to an exciting career as a total spaceship guy


Thanks Mike