The Calf has a degree in History-he works Nuclear Security, but the degree did make them look at him closer.
Mrs. Cow

For years, the economy has been sufficiently robust to sustain the employment of college graduates with no marketable skills (the result of gender and racial studies programs, as well as an excess of graduates with liberal arts vs technical degrees). But this is no longer true, and the days of a lib arts major finding a decent job right out of school may be gone forever. Because of this, it is pure folly for students and their parents to attend expensive schools unless they are certain their education will pay off in the long run. Likewise, it´s folly for the federal government to continue to provide education loans to students who will likely not be able to pay them back.

I haven´t worked in my degree field since 1996. Everything I´ve learned to do my current job, I learned on my own as I went along. We need corporate apprenticeships instead of 4-5 years of liberal BS that teaches you next to nothing.

Yep, humanities studies and other bs degrees seldom have much to do with burger flipping management.

What ticks me off is that working people pay for these "over educated crumbs" with our high taxes and lower standard of living.

Man: Johnny, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Johnny:I wanna work for the government.
Man: Why?
Johnny: Cuz, you get paid big bucks, full health care and a big pension. Plus, if I screw up I get promoted.
Man: Wouldn`t that make you feel guilty? You know, taking so much for doing so little?
Johnny: Oh heck no. Guilt was the first thing they took from us in Bureaucrat School.

Separate the colleges into financially independent institutions - Engineering, Medicine, Education, Law, and Liberal Arts.

If they can´t make it financially on their own then they need to change or shut down.

In Dear Leader´s America, we have college graduates competing with illegal immigrants for jobs.

I bet most of those employed college graduates will spend most of their working lives paying off their student loans, too.

I went to college after I had been working many years in office administration.

I never expected it to be helpful in my career. (Actually, I never wanted a "career" ... just a job that paid me enough to live decently.) I went to college because I enjoyed it, and paid for it myself. I got my B.A. a couple of weeks before my 50th birthday!

A degree merely shows potential employers that you have the perseverance to get through a relatively long and tough study program. Most graduates I know are trained on the job after they´re hired.

Many here seem to think the problem is that people got the wrong degrees. No, the problem is that Obama has created the longest recession ever. I don´t care what the stock market is doing. It doesn´t help my kids get jobs. My oldest is one of those who is working below his potential. So far, his education has helped him stay employed and now he was their first choice to get a promotion. The problem is our weak economy. His employer is cutting most people´s hours. It is increasing his since he is a much more productive worker than his co-workers, most of whom have not gone to any college. So yes, while he makes the same hourly wage now, in less than a year he has already inched ahead of his fellow employees. He is moving into a tangential job that if he stays, will be making more than the managers in a few years. If the economy ever improves, he will get an even better job. But for right now, we are grateful he makes enough to live very frugally alone and has enough to pay his bills.

My son is in his 2nd semester at the local JC, working on his general credits to transfer to a state university. No reason to spend his college fund irresponsibly. He wants to fly drones but I´m not so hot on the military under the current king, if you know what I mean. Don´t know what direction he needs to pursue! I tell him he needs to love his career so choose wisely and make it work.