08-07-2015, 11:23 PM
(08-07-2015, 05:07 PM)gstanford Wrote: There are millions world wide who have been through college, gotten skills in several disciplines and yet are still unemployed.
Getting a skill that pays well is no guarantee of anything nowadays (and it wasn't much of a guarantee in the past either - It is who you know, not what you know that matters, especially as you get higher and higher on the social scale).
Sure GStan, there are LOTS of doctors, lawyers, nurses, CPAs, electrical engineers out there with no degrees or skills- it's all who you know!
And of course:
http://www.businessinsider.com/college-v...tes-2013-6
Quote:The Massive Difference In Unemployment Between Those Who Do And Don't Have A College Degree
And the wage difference in general:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014...ads-widens
Quote:Study: Income Gap Between Young College and High School Grads Widens
You keep on thinking the magic Dan Price fairy is going to come and give you the big bucks. For me, I'll keep telling my son the most likely path to a decent living is learning a skill people will pay for, and keep counting on my bachelors degrees to make it more likely I'll be employed and doing OK.
"Could" be the employers of the world just want to help me all they can, but I think stacking the odds in your favor as much as possible is a good plan.