CNN targets Clueless Elite With Dull Article on Jobs
Apparently you don’t need a college degree to get a great job. What a mind blowing piece of news. I thought that anyone without a college degree was fated to a life of toil and misery. Forced to live in crippling poverty wile their souls slowly died from the barren, meaningless drudgery of their lot. Doesn’t a college degree automatically get you a check every month for $10,000 and a nice car? I was sure that was the case. It looks like I was wrong. Here’s the complete list.
All kidding aside I’d like to avoid anyone that’s shocked because a college degree isn’t a necessary component to success. I know that it helps. But it’s not a silver bullet. As a matter of fact, I’ll bet the earning potential of a skilled builder is a lot higher than the earning potential of an art history major.
On a side note, since when did total take home pay become the single yardstick of a good job? I can think of a number of people I know that are successful and happy and not working as an investment bankers in
posted by Garble at 8:19 AM
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I noticed that article listed air traffic controller as the #1 job for non-degree holders. Talk about a stressful nightmare! They probably had to lower the education requirements because nobody with half a brain would actually WANT that job- regardless of the compensation.
But seriously, I think that article focused on the exceptions to the norm. This article gives some good summary stats of degree versus non-degree holders. Notice what all the high non-degree earners have in common??? They are all dropouts from prestigious universities.
Admission to an ivy league school is strongly correlated with parents income. Something else they left out of the article.
My main point was that their are a lot of college degree that won't help your earning potential as much as a real skill like carpentry.
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