Getting A degree: Can you imagine going to college to get a photographers instruction for wedding photos? Spending $$$$$$$$$$$$$ for equipment etc, and learn how to take selfies? What...

FuManChu

Can you imagine going to college to get a photographers instruction for wedding photos?
Spending $$$$$$$$$$$$$ for equipment etc, and learn how to take selfies?

What are the worst degrees for making a decent income?

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

FuManChu wrote:

Can you imagine going to college to get a photographers instruction for wedding photos?
Spending $$$$$$$$$$$$$ for equipment etc, and learn how to take selfies?

What are the worst degrees for making a decent income?

Worst: probably education.
Best: maybe something in the sciences.

I earned a Masters degree in Geology. After 21 years of working I was able to retire. I did quite well.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

I only had one year of collage and I got activated during Korea. I was in the navy reserves and when uncle Sam says we need you, you go. I only had three days notice. My wife and I had just bought a new bedroom set and living room set. I had to have it shipped right into storage. My father inlaw knew the guy that owned the place so they didn't charge me anything. Never got back to collage. But while in the navy I put in for every school I could. While working in the aero space industry I had to deal with a lot of collage grads. Some good but many with no common sense. They had no hands on learning.

Dannj

My 2 cents: If someone chooses to go to college solely because they think it will guarantee a "decent" income they're going for the wrong reason. Interests and abilities are more important considerations and there's a difference between education and job training.

FuManChu

I got Barbers Kindergarden Degree! Can't you tell?

ricardo7 Loc: Washington, DC - Santiago, Chile

Dannj wrote:

My 2 cents: If someone chooses to go to college solely because they think it will guarantee a "decent" income they're going for the wrong reason. Interests and abilities are more important considerations and there's a difference between education and job training.

Absolutely right. If I had to do it again I would not pass up a good college education regardless of what the job potentials could be.
An education teaches you how to think critically.

ntonkin Loc: western Upper Peninusla of Michigan

I once heard a comment by a technician about a professional he worked with.... '
"Joe is educated far beyond his intelligence"
Unfortunately, this is too often true.

Engineering and Medical are probably the two most job rich degrees. As far as salary, flexibility in location and job opportunity, I think a degree/certification as a physician's assistant is really hard to beat in this country today.
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jaycoffman Loc: San Diego

I agree--the degree should not matter as much as the interests and abilities of the student. Here's a cardinal rule I learned in college getting my degree in psychology (later ending up with a law degree). This is the most important rule I ever learned about comparing groups of anything. "The differences within the group are always greater than the differences between the groups."

Dannj

One component I don't see mentioned in this thread is enjoying the work one does. Career choice should include evaluation of many factors first of which is how important is my career in my total life. Once that decision is made, if the chosen field doesn't rate high on the "I like this" scale the individual won't reach their full potential and their dissatisfaction with work is likely to have a negative impact on other areas of their life.

Virgil Loc: The Hoosier State

The problem with a large portion of the world today is everybody is getting a lot more SPENDING cents but a lot less COMMON sense!

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

Virgil wrote:

The problem with a large portion of the world today is everybody is getting a lot more SPENDING cents but a lot less COMMON sense!

whitewolfowner

Its not the degree but what the student takes from it and can apply in the real world. I have worked with engineers from top notch colleges with their fancy degrees and they are not worth the toilet paper they use every day. I have worked with one's from small, unknown, unranked schools who are top notch. When I worked at a major corporation in research and development, all the design engineers (top positions), when they got stuck, they went to an older man who never sat a day in a college classroom, self taught all the way, and he was the brain that solved their problems. He was also the one they ran to for setting up their home computers.

I have told my son this and he has gone from a not well rated college, to a very pristine university to work on his master's degree. He work's in the sports department, goes tuition free and receives a small salary to boot.

oregon don

Dannj wrote:

One component I don't see mentioned in this thread is enjoying the work one does. Career choice should include evaluation of many factors first of which is how important is my career in my total life. Once that decision is made, if the chosen field doesn't rate high on the "I like this" scale the individual won't reach their full potential and their dissatisfaction with work is likely to have a negative impact on other areas of their life.

my grades were not high enough for college and I had no desire. I was fortunate to get an apprenticeship in the building trades, at a locally owned co. that was the best in town.
I am a very outspoken person, so that does not work out too well in polite of academia.

I have done very well for myself and I am now retired, had a great life.

whitewolfowner

oregon don wrote:

my grades were not high enough for college and I had no desire. I was fortunate to get an apprenticeship in the building trades, at a locally owned co. that was the best in town.
I am a very outspoken person, so that does not work out too well in polite of academia.

I have done very well for myself and I am now retired, had a great life.

More young should follow your advise. The building trades are in dire need of skilled and dedicated workers. Anyone who wanted to do this today could excel and make a very good living; much better than many with a college degree. Don't forget that many that are sent to college are sent there in hopes that they will wake up and mature and actually get a skill to make a living at or be able to take over the family business. They are the loser children of the wealthy and without Daddy's wealth would never stand a chance holding a job at McDonalds.

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