What started the anti college religion?

Because everyone is going now, and that hasn't made everyone more intelligent, yet a lot of people with degrees often act like it does, even if they've got "mickey mouse degrees" which pay less than a trade skill.

Unless you are a doctor, a lawyer or your job requires extensive education to perform. Most college degrees are irrelevant from just doing it online.

Trade schools are not classified as college. People scoff at associate degrees. When people talk about useless college they talk about getting a bachelors as a prerequisite to holding a job that really doesnt specialize in said degree.

Generalized degrees are pointless if all you need to know about your job is simply X,Y,Z. Something an online class is more than sufficient most times. Or on the trade side of things, doing an apprentenceship or company led training.

I'd like to ask what's the point in getting a bachelors if the pay is 40k a year?

I got 6 weeks of training and my base pay was more than that.

To me, it seemed that the more crazy the colleges got, the less useful they became. I have one, older, son in college and another, younger son, who is college age that refuses to go and instead is in a trade school. The younger son is already making better money than I make

Is this even a thing? I often hear people talking about how liberal arts degrees are pricey and don't set you up for a good career (true). Trade school and STEM are different.

It's a question of is the cost of a college education really going to bring you worthwhile financial gain in the job market.

For many current job positions the cost of a college education, if funded by debt, does not pay off.

For other job positions it clearly pays off (Example: I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and my engineering employment clearly paid for the cost of the education and provided a better than normal lifestyle for decades.

In many cases a Technical Degree or other job training is far more worthwhile and produces larger paychecks than for people with various general college degrees.

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I think it depends on the degree and what career you're looking to get into. For some fields, college is a necessity, while with others it is a waste of money. Trade schools have a lot of offerings as well, but it's also possible to make good money with just a high school education or GED, though it usually requires a lot of hard work, and sometimes working your way up from the bottom. I know many business owners with only high school educations, and many people who worked their way up in companies with this level of education as well.

I believe it is possible to make good money in the military if you stay in for long enough and rank up as well, and that can also set you up for a good career outside of it later on.

I do not believe that college degrees are a necessity to make it in the adult world, as I also know people with paperweight college degrees that they don't even use, didn't get them the jobs they had hoped they would, were not the best choices to secure a good job to begin with (i.e. liberal arts), etc. A degree may get your foot in the door in a few places, but often times people end up paying off insane student loan debt for years and not really being ahead of many who didn't go to college. There's also the problem that certain fields are becoming over-saturated and since more and more people are getting college degrees, they don't set people apart as much as they used to. This does not make college *bad*, of course, but it is also not something I'd recommend to everyone.

When I was in high school, it was drilled into our heads that college was a must and that we'd never make it without it, and I think that's actually detrimental. I know people who were in high school with me (I graduated in 2014) who are STILL in college, and not graduate school or majoring in something that is an 8+ year degree or anything like that, but simply flopping around, unsure of what they want to do, and frequently changing their major. I don't see how this is productive at all, and I think schools should instead teach that there are multiple options and that it is also okay to hold off on college until you have a solid idea of what you want to go for.

TL;DR: To me, college is more of a case-by-case basis rather than something everyone should do.

i went to an animal house niche engineering college

i gave up a 'lucrative' journeyman license to do so

no regrets i got all the work i want and am paid enough to not work when i dont feel like it