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Originally Posted by rahl
This is one of my gripes about how important people feel college is. Sure, it can help get you a job, but most people pay anywhere from 30k to 40k if not more on a college education and end up with a job that pays less than what you spent on college. IMO it's one of the best scams going in this country today.
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$30-40k?! What school did you go to?
Sally Struthers Academy for the Gifted? Shit is way expensive, bro. $40k just for tuition maybe. Rent, books, and booze... those are significant expenses above and beyond that paltry estimate. My checkbook has scorch marks on it from higher education.
I get the impression that college is part of this social order lily pad scheme. The general idea being that grades of education match up with grades of employment. I can get a job as a strip club janitor with a GED. I can get a job as a office lackey with an associates. I can get a job in a cubicle with a 4 year, get my own office with a 6 year, and by the time I've got my PhD... I've got enough gray hairs and debt to warrant leatherbound books and a dimly lit study. There are obvious deviations from this scheme... the guy with the GED that makes a million a year because he has some networking skill or the guy that has a 6 year that pushes a mop because the market is in the toilet and he's "overqualified" (as it is today or so it seems).
It doesn't matter what degree I have... hell, I got me a Bach in Underwater Basketweaving from Bumfuck U... and I can get a job doing nearly anything if I know someone in the industry and show a little spunk at an interview. It has been my experience that networking is everything.