48% of employed college graduates work in jobs that don't require a four-year degree
I personally think this stat should probably be higher than 90%. That is, if you took "require a four-year degree" to mean "the four year degree significantly improved their performance on the job."
Even with my BS in Computer science, I would say that it would have been much more efficient if I had just learned how to program on my own (which I did anyways), or on the job, or in high school classes, and then maybe had 2 years of upper-level college classes. The first 2 years of college were mostly a waste for me. For other CS students, the first 2 years were very useful to them, but the last 2 years weren't.
Point being, 4 years is a long fucking time especially when you are in a very energetic part of your life, and should be figuring out how you fit in to the real world. The opportunity cost to the country of having all these adults tied up in college is enormous, not to mention the immense friction it causes when they all have to spend years floundering around in the real world trying to figure out how to actually succeed.
[–] bourbonexpert ago
isnt that pretty much every generation when they just get out of college?
[–] BottomLine ago
They're making a difference alright. They're pushing backwards instead of forward.
[–] eioruoe 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Are you really over-educated when you can't critically think, debate, do math, solve problems? I don't want to single out millennials, it's probably just as true with many of our parents, but the problem isn't over-education, problem is a system that takes up 20 years of your life without teaching / letting / forcing you to think independently. Of course some individuals will do well, I'm generalizing, but 90% of us shouldn't be spending 8 hours x 5 days x 20 years in school. Debt-ridden seems to just be an American thing. "Looking to make a difference" isn't really a millennial thing, most young people in history have wanted to change something.
[–] BoiseNTheHood 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Debt-ridden seems to just be an American thing.
And a Swedish thing, a British thing, a Japanese thing, a Kiwi thing, a Canadian thing, etc., etc.
[–] onegin ago
I personally think this stat should probably be higher than 90%. That is, if you took "require a four-year degree" to mean "the four year degree significantly improved their performance on the job."
Even with my BS in Computer science, I would say that it would have been much more efficient if I had just learned how to program on my own (which I did anyways), or on the job, or in high school classes, and then maybe had 2 years of upper-level college classes. The first 2 years of college were mostly a waste for me. For other CS students, the first 2 years were very useful to them, but the last 2 years weren't.
Point being, 4 years is a long fucking time especially when you are in a very energetic part of your life, and should be figuring out how you fit in to the real world. The opportunity cost to the country of having all these adults tied up in college is enormous, not to mention the immense friction it causes when they all have to spend years floundering around in the real world trying to figure out how to actually succeed.