So you were told to go to college : Why that is a HUGE mistake
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| "I love college." |
It is halfway through your senior year of high school and already the pressure is on you to step up your educational game and start searching for a University that will be able to further enhance your mental and physical capabilities, hopefully resulting in a better job-outlook.
There is an increasing amount of people who are realizing that in many cases, post-secondary education is not the way to go. Here are some reasons why attending college may actually be detrimental to your future:
1. The tuition is way too expensive and not justifiable
Sure, we've all heard the traditional lecture - get good grades in high school, go to college and work off your college loans afterwards at a decently well-paying job. But the experts are now chirping a different story. After recent developments in the 'loan-acquisition department', it is now possible for anyone and everyone to afford to go to college. ....Or so they say. Most college graduates after 4 years will have as little as $50,000 and upwards of $100,000 or more in debt after graduating with a B.A. degree. There is no room for that kind of debt, especially in this kind of economy, so if you aren't absolutely guaranteed a job coming out of college, it would seem that there almost isn't any use of getting a degree in the first place. Aren't there some alternatives to attending a University and having crippling college debt?
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| Are you actually going to earn more money in the long run? |
2. There are alternatives to going to college
Go to a trade-school. Presently, there are wonderful ways to make money instead of trudging through the traditional educational methods that most University students have to go through. There are much quicker and easier ways of getting qualified in useful skills that can land you the same or higher paying jobs. It simply isn't useful anymore to be overqualified for any type of job that you want to be hired for. Factory workers who have gone to a tech school can make $40,000/year at an entry-level job. No longer are young people choosing to be unemployed or being satisfied with working at low-level, minimum wage jobs if they don't go to college. There are other ways - Tech and Vocational schools are often 2-year "degrees" that can be much more useful than the average college degree. This is a useful option especially for people who are interested in mechanics, welding, cosmetics and many other more kinetically-heavy careers.
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| This man is getting paid a decent salary too, and he didn't even attend college |
3. Being overqualified is just as bad as being under-qualified
Back in the day, if you were overqualified, you could still get hired for a great job - in fact, it was even desired to be a little bit overqualified for the job that you wanted. Now, however, the job-market has changed, and employers are looking for prospective employees who are a bit more directly suited for the jobs that they are applying for. Although most employers won't admit it, they are looking for someone who can perform better at the tasks in the job description not simply the person who has more education about them. In the real world, the employee that can make the most money for their firm/company will get the job, regardless of how many degrees they have. This might seem somewhat counter-intuitive, but someone who knows too much about how to do something is often the person who is actually the worst at doing it in real life.
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| Not getting a job because you have too much education? Huh? |
4. You learn a lot of useless information in college
During most people's college years, they are forced to take many classes that do not have any real-world applications. In fact, the majority of the classes that most people take in the average 4-year college degree have almost no relevance to the major that the students are pursuing. Then why do these students have to take these courses? It all comes down to money. The longer a student is enrolled in college, regardless of how many credits he is taking, the more he will end up spending. And this money is going right into the pockets of the University superiors. So why are they forcing their students to take four foreign-language classes when they are going into the computer sciences? You can bet your top dollar that most of these skills learned in the "extra" classes will never be used or looked at by employers. Well, unless you are taking 'Ancient Chinese Arithmetic Ballroom Theatrics'. This is one of the reasons why the average 4-year degree is now taking 5 years to complete....
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| By the time you're done with all your elective classes, you'll be as old as this man. |
5. College is a waste of the prime of your life
For most people, the earlier years of their lives are spent gaining knowledge - knowledge that would someday prepare them for the 'big leagues' of some University campus. Little do they know that once they get there, they aren't about to be challenged; they aren't about to be prepared for the 'big leagues' of some high-paying job. They are about to spend the next 4 (or 5) years listening to politically-biased speech after time-wasting lecture on material that, for the most part, they could have just learned on the internet (at places like this site). The majority of college students will drink: a lot. And, overall, the experience that students get just isn't the same as it was 50 years ago. We live in the age where life is fast-paced, and no one has time for pointless 'education'. College-age is the time of life that people have the energy, bodies, and minds that can make a real difference in both the communities and in their individual selves. It isn't there to waste.
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| These students are going to try to get hired someday by professional companies. |
In conclusion, whether or not you have gone to college, are in college right now, or plan on going to college in the future, there are always things that you can do personally in order to become the most financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally successful that you can be. And in this day in age, it just comes down to the fact that going to college might not be the right choice for everyone. Not that it is necessarily a bad option, but there are better things that you can be doing with your life. Start a business, learn a useful trade, take an online class in something that you can apply to your life, and for the love of god, don't just go to college because your Daddy said that it would be a good idea.
mutare futuro
-KO
by Konstantin Deyev
E-Mail: konst6000@gmail.com
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