To be fair I feel like college is way less about teaching you anything specific and way more about teaching you critical thinking and abstract conceptualization.
Like I didn’t learn jack shit from my “American economical development in the 14th century” class but I did genuinely get good at telling good sources from bad ones while writing essays, and that IS a skill that has uses in life
It’s showing that you can complete a multi-staged project that required years of effort and investment without any immediate return on investment.
Even if you don’t learn anything in college, the sheer process of going through the motions and getting the degree demonstrates skills that are useful in an employee.
Skills that can be shown from working at an entry level job. Or through several other methods.
That’s not a good reason to require someone to pay tens of thousands of dollars for the opportunity to even apply for a job.
Where else am I going to learn how to chug a liter of goon out of a sweaty gumboot?
Skills that capitalist scum loves in exploitable workers
FTFY
To be fair I feel like college is way less about teaching you anything specific and way more about teaching you critical thinking and abstract conceptualization.
That’s because conservatives want to replace universities with vocational schools. Nothing wrong with those schools, but its just another face of their culture war politics making their way to everyday discussions.
Yeah I really don’t know what your reasoning here is. Can you explain?
Conservatives often want to talk down the value of attending a university (particularly when studying liberal arts and humanities). Like the commenter above me points out much of university is about understanding concepts and developing ideas, and less how to do a particular weld or which pipe to use (vocation). It depends on what you study too, STEM will have more hands on but never as much as someone who went to a technical school to actually do the building of stuff. By convincing people that university is supposed to be vocational it feeds into their talking points about education being woke and unnecessary.
Kind of ironic coming from a group of lawyers and theologians.
It sounds like what they are saying is correct then, so I don’t get how they have fallen for the idea that everything needs to be vocational
Aside from hard science and engineering degrees where the technical knowledge is a foundation for what you’ll learn in industry, a college degree is simply a piece of paper that says “I received a balanced education and have my life together enough to focus, manage time, and complete tasks reliably for 4 years straight.” Rarely do you ever use most of the knowledge you gained in college besides the aforementioned life management skills.
Then why even bother going to a university? Seems like community college would be a much better use of your money to accomplish that
University is meant to be higher level and teach you soft skills. Academics also aren’t supposed to be the only thing you do, but participating in clubs and sports is supposed to give students experience in leadership to make them better leaders when they graduate.
It is supposed to be a civilian version of officer candidate school.
So then I really fucked up by working fast food to pay for my textbooks when I could have been out playing sportsball
Or being in a fraternity or student clubs.
The only club I had time for was the chicken club
Normalize lying to employers.
They lie to you all the time so fuck it.
How many employers even check to see if you went to college unless you got a higher level degree? Maybe a few will ask for transcripts, but it’s rare.
If they do background checks and you list it on your resume / hiring paperwork, they all do.
I used to work as a team lead on a call center help desk that had literally no requirements to get the job outside of a 10 question “technical interview” that features questions such as “can you name three programs that are a part of the Microsoft office suite” and periodically we would have new hires get fired once their background check returned that they lied about having a degree that they don’t actually have.
I don’t know why they lied - degrees aren’t even requested or required for getting the job, but they did and lying on anything that came up on the background check was an immediate termination
I’ve had jobs with background checks and they still didn’t care. Maybe in technical fields they do, but I’m in media/marketing/advertising design and production and they have never given a shit.
In having worked for numerous employers for over 26 years in I.T. I’ve only once ever been asked for my transcript.
Yes, transcripts are rare. No one really cares what your grades were as long as you get the degree. Checking that you got the degree you claimed you did is not rare. But you don’t have to do anything extra to prove that; it’ll show up in the background check that pretty much every employer runs.
I’ve had lots of background checks run (most recently today in fact) and have never seen a college degree listed on one.
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I work for a background checking company… it’s not even close to rare. I know clients that check your education records even if you don’t have any.
Me: “I’m the best neurosurgeon in the entire southern hemisphere”
Interviewer: “Wow! You’re hired! Welcome aboard. Can you start tomorrow?”
The next day: “Haha bonesaw goes brrrrrrr”
The difference is regardless of whether you directly use what you learned in college or not, you have gained experience and tools that will help you in your future endeavors.
I read this sort of thing as: Forget what you were taught because we’re going to reshape you to help you succeed in this position, but DON’T forget how you learned, what tools and concepts you used along the way, connections built, etc.
You have to understand the core building blocks you became familiar with still apply one way or another. All of that hardship helped you build experience and understanding which enabled you to enter the industry of your choice and get a job where they start to mold you in a way that benefits the work you were hired to do.
If you don’t go to college you didn’t have all of those building blocks from approved curriculums and standardized testing, in person labs, team projects, etc.
You can achieve without college no question but that usually means the job will need to do potentially even more molding to get a person to a similar spot. Not always but much of the time.
Great explanation! I always knew this but never had the chance to mold the thoughts into one clear explanation which you just did.
Connections?
“Forget everything…”
Way ahead of you buddy. I literally got like amnesia, a day after the qualifying exam for college.
Life is a game unfortunately. Play the game by the rules, win the game.
If being saddled with debt AND a shitty low paying job is your condition of winning, then yeah
Sadly I think winning in capitalism for the 99% is not starving on the street.
Besides, you are 30 already, yet have only 10 years experience. We are looking for at least 25 years for someone your age
We need someone with a millennium of experience with a framework that just came out a month ago.
My favorite is the ones where programmers are like “they wanted someone with 5 years experience with ? Guess I’m unqualified, I wrote it 3 years ago”
i just lie about my degree, works everytime
Same. They’ve never checked.
it’s not what you learnt but how you learnt it… or so they say, anyway
