"A student who secures a degree is increasingly unlikely to make up its cost, despite higher pay, and the employer who requires a degree puts faith in a system whose standards are slipping. … I’m not arguing against higher learning but for it — and against the degree system that stands in its way."
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—The New York Post— I got a degree that I didn’t necessarily want, even though I loved and am thankful for my college experience. Articles like these reinforce a lot of what I felt when I entered school, that it wasn’t for everyone and that I would be better off if I could find a good job that would hire a high school graduate and just learn to work by working. And work my way up in a company.
Now as I fight the quarterlife urge to go back to school— for a graduate degree that I might want, that will probably raise my income, the pursuit of which seems like more fun than working— I have to acknowledge that it probably isn’t the best investment. According the WSJ, law school is definitely not a good option for my future, and it follows that any professional graduate degree probably costs more than it’s worth right now.
