| richardhutnik said: I am going to file "We need to get more people more college degrees and advanced ones" under the category of B.S. I have a BS degree in Management, and a Masters in Information Systems. I hadn't worked a regular job in the field since 2007. Most recently, I had a janitorial position I was doing briefly, until issues with my back resulted in me not being able to do it. I was with IBM until 2004. At that point I was let go with a bunch of other people, in software development. Between 2004 and 2007 I had two helpdesk jobs, the first one paying $12.50/hr. The reality of the job market today is that there are too many people with college degrees who aren't doing work in what they are trained for. There is a glut of people with such degrees. And the payoff of debt vs payout for degree isn't worth it. What is needed is education past high school being restructured to that which is more viable, say trade school or something else... and debt load kept WAY down.
Here are some videos to back up what I am talking about:
|
Anecdotal videos, that’s the equivalent of statistical evidence isn’t it?
The evidence in the job market indicates that people with higher education have a higher participation rate, much lower unemployment, and are paid much better than individuals with a high-school education (or worse).Overall this translates into the labour market of college and university graduates being far healthier than the labour market in general, and it could be argued that the skilled labour market in western nations is entirely healthy.
Does this mean that every degree ensures jobs? No, in fact many schools graduate far too many students in (fairly) worthless (from a career perspective) degrees because they can get the same tuition and support from the government in these fields in spite of them being fields with very low cost educations.
Now, I don’t know the specifics of your education but it has been my experience that individuals with certain management degrees are always in high demand (typically people with degrees related to accounting) while other degrees are only worthwhile to get individuals entry level office positions. I don’t know what school you went to but most well respected schools tend not to offer "Masters in Information Systems" degrees, especially to individuals with no relevant undergrad; and some schools that offer these degrees (Devry) are so poorly respected that the degree is just a very expensive piece of paper.
