Career Guidance

Originally Posted by FLimits

A four-year degree (bachelor's or applied bachelor's) will always work in your favor. It will give you more options and increase your earning potential. Even for the exact same job, a person with a 4-year degree will often be paid better than someone without one. For better or worse, the 4-year degree has become a standard requirement to gain access to most of the jobs in this country. Just take a look at some job listings and you'll see what I mean.

I completely agree. I don't have a degree because of my crazy delusions of grandeur when I was young thinking I'd be rich off some scheme and wouldn't need one, even passed up on the g.i.bill while in the military. If I could go back I would beat the crap out of my younger self for those idiotic decisions. Anyway, there have been times I needed a job and couldn't get one solely because I didn't have a degree, even though I qualified in every other way. It's frustrating when you see a COMPLETE MORON in a job that you would excel at simply because they have a degree. For example I had a friend that moved up the ranks in the construction biz (he's actually not a moron though) because he had a degree....in MUSIC! WTF does music have to do with construction...NOTHING!!!!! Sorry about the rant, I just wanted to second what FLimits stated.