09-01-2017, 03:00 PM
(09-01-2017, 10:09 AM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Not sure what point you are trying to lead up to, but I'm not really seeing much of a correlation to anything in the article I posted in the OP. The article claims a serious need for people in skilled trades. I agreed, and stated that it was something that I have known for years. Even went so far as to say that if I had to do things over again, I might have went straight to that path, rather than the one that led me where I am.
So, what point are you leading up to? Are you trying to disprove the premise of the article? Are you trying to show that I have no business supporting it, as I do possess a bachelor's degree?
The point I get from this thread and the meme i quoted is college degrees are stupid. And how many times have you heard people claim colleges degrees are just a piece of paper?
But, the reality is you went to school for the education and training necessary to enter a new career because it offered better pay and job opportunities. Pay and opportunities which wouldn't be available to you without the additional education. An Associate's or Bachelor's degree aren't just silly pieces of paper you need to get a job as some people try to portray. Rather they represent the entire process you had to complete in your field and it should help indicate your qualifications in a field to a potential employer. And so a land surveyor technologist makes more than your average construction worker and a civil engineer makes more than a land surveyor technologist. Not because of a piece of paper, but because of what they learn to get that piece of paper. Instead of blaming the people who pushed you to go to college where you chose to study communications, maybe you should have chosen to study civil engineering instead of communications.
Long story short; you are where you are career wise because of advanced education, not because of a lack of it.
