@KiwiBird Time spent on anything is time not spent on anything else.
I left school at 16, having learned almost nothing - certainly with no formal educational qualifications. By the time I was 20, I realised that, no matter what power my long legs, round arse, tits and cheeky grin gave me, the people with real power, power over me, had two things I didn't - money and knowledge.
And I also realised that I needed the latter to make worthwhile amounts of the former. So I started to ask questions.
@SchoolBelle Sometimes we just need the formal education piece of paper as a meal ticket even if we learn fuck all. A means to an end.
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Nothing I learned in college put money in my pocket. It was a waste of time and money.
Nothing you learned in high school put money in your pocket either, but most companies we work for have a minimum credential requirement that a candidate have at least a high school graduation diploma before they'll hire you.
If they don't have that minimum requirement, then that is your first sign that you probably shouldn't be spending too much time working there, because you'll soon find yourself surrounded by people who know as little ..or less than you do about anything and everything in general.
A college education and in particular a university education, were never designed in their respective curriculum formats, to teach you anything which you could then take to the outside world and make a living from the skills you had learned while in college/university.
Trade School being the exception, where one goes to a Trade School of Applied Arts and Technology to learn a specific Trade for the workplace, such as welding or pipe-fitting or hat-making for example.
What a college diploma proves to a potential employer as you lay that piece of paper on her desk during an employment interview, is that you have provided written evidence as proof that you are capable of learning new things on the academic level, or imparting intelligent ideas on the academic level.
Without that college diploma as proof of your learning accomplishments on the academic level, you offer absolutely NO PROOF to a potential employer that you are capable of problem solving or even capable of socially interacting with the general public whom you may be required to work among.
Therefore, without a college diploma and certainly without a high school diploma, you offer an employer zero credentials about yourself, except for the fact that you have demonstrated NO motivation whatsoever to get yourself educated to even a basic level, which means you'd be a very poor choice as an employee to that company. This is because the risk level is very high that they will end up with an idiot on their hands after making the mistake of hiring that uneducated person in the first place.
@swirlie I think I agree with you mostly. Our society is obsessed with college. I did poorly in college. Various reasons. Biggest one I thought I had lost the love of my life and didn't care. By the next year the love of my life came back, I went to the USAF and got married. Went to electronics school. Worked part-time at a truck line. Graduated from school. They sent me on job interviews that paid $2.75-$3.00 per hour. I was making $6.00 driving a semi. Retired from ABF freight 29 years in the teamster union. Loved my job and was well liked by management. My son went to work for the local Ford dealer just before he turned 16. Graduated HS they offered to train him as a tech. No cost to him and got paid while doing it. Now 46. Senior master tech making over $100k a year. You need the highschool diploma but for most of us college is a waste of time and money. I worked with a guy that had a doctor's degree that was jamming gears for a living. I felt you pushed college a bit much. My oldest daughter has a degree in mechanical engineering.graduated with honors. Homeschooled her kids after working 10 years.
That is correct. School beyond high school, doesn't actually teach us anything, particularly if that school is university. At least high school attempts to teach us how to socialize if nothing else.
The only place where learning occurs beyond high school is in a Trade School or in a college of applied technology. University is stupidly expensive and teaches absolutely nothing to it's students, nor are it's students qualified to do anything specific upon graduation from a Masters Program or even from a Doctorate.
About the only thing one is qualified to do with a PhD is become a University Professor which only pays about $160,000 per year the last time I looked which wasn't recently.
Our tax dollars don't pay a University Professor's salary, the tuition fees pay the Professor's salary which the parents of those students pay to the university with after-tax dollars saved for 20 years from the time their kid was born.
I know, my parents didn't save for 20 years anticipating a Doctorate hanging on my bedroom wall either.
@SchoolBelle I think if leaving school 2 years early doesn’t add 2 extra years of education and actually makes it 2 years less because you left 2 years early unless I’m not understanding it and you mean something else.
