4-Year College -vs- 8 month Job Training?
Why does society and so many parents act like the very best thing a high school student can do is go to a 4-year college and get a DEGREE …any degree …as long as it’s a "degree" and you can then call yourself a "college graduate"? The truth of the matter is that many of these college grads will NEVER produce much if anything as a ‘direct result’ of having invested 4 years of their life and a lot of other people’s money (including yours and mine usually). MANY will graduate with no real marketable skills, talents, abilities, experience or insight to enable them to do anything either for an employer or for themselves. The decent job that _some_ of them get will be in spite of and not because of their college degree.
On the other hand, those students smart enough to study a specific trade and get certified in it will have a marketable skill that will be their ticket to the good life. Their success ratio is FAR higher than the typical college grad with a generic non-specific undergrad B.S. or B.A. in something like English; history; sociology; political science; art appreciation; the humanities; etc. Today… a liberal arts education is almost worthless …UNLESS you’re using it as a ticket to a graduate program such as law school, etc.
I am only saying that education is essential to life success and there are MANY paths to getting truly educated other than the ONE path which is most touted in our society. The 4-year college/university system is the WORST choice for some …MANY of our young people and nobody wants to say it …or admit it.
By the way: Before you start making assumptions about me… I am a very successful entrepreneur, a prolifically published author; professional public speaker; producer of numerous info-products and instructional aides; forex trader; web designer; etc. …and I’ve been making money online since before MOST of you ever heard of the Internet… so don’t make the foolish assumptions others have as I continue my rants against the college myth. Yes, I am self-taught in everything I know and I am BIG on education and for me that means showing people the paths to getting truly educated rather than being just another dummy with a degree and no clue as to how to truly succeed in life.
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I’d earn my BA first, then if I still want that training, do the 8 month program. A liberal arts education is too important to me personally. http://www.smwc.edu/distance/general_studies/what_is_liberal_arts Any specific job out there today will be vastly different in 10 or 20 years, if it’s around at all. But, a BA pays dividends througout your life by teaching you to think critically and to communicate.
I can’t imagine much of any job that only takes 8 months of training to pay the same as most 4 yr college degree jobs
and if you are talking about any kind of trade like carpentry, plumbing, electrical, etc, just be prepared to be unemployed many times before you retire – there are tons of building trades workers out of work right now and have been out of work for months because of the economy
people with college degrees as a group always have lower unemployment rates than non-college grads – it’s a fact
I seriously doubt you are everything you say your are – you sound more than an angry unsuccessful wannabe
loved this writing!