Student loans debate - fair game for students?

[Ganoncrotch]

Normchacho said:

Ganoncrotch said:

What's the degree and do you have a plan as to how that degree is going to earn you back what you put into it? Could that plan have went ahead without the degree?

Mechanical Engineering. The plan is to get my associates, start working as an engineering technician and then finish up my bachelors while I'm working. Yeah, it should earn me back what I put into it pretty easily. Plus, it's the work I want to be doing.

 

Oh, and no it couldn't happen without a degree.

That is fantastic, it's great to have the end goal and to be working towards it without it effecting your desire to be a part of that industry as you learn more and more about it as you go along.

My question regarding the need of the degree is that there are a lot of people now who seem to just go to College for the sake of getting a degree, just for the sake of ticking the box "done college" in terms of living a complete life, but then their end game goal in no way requires the degree for anything other than a nice thing to frame which cost thousands of dollars and many years of our short life on this planet.

I thought to myself after typing the question... what if the guy is going to become a doctor, my logic of... ahhhhh do you really need a degree for that? Just start cutting and see how it goes!! wouldn't really go so well haha.