Elon: College = Overrated
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Only reason I’m currently in College is an aborted career in the trades made me realize I wasn’t particularly fond of it. Even then I’m looking to get my FAA Pt. 107 and try my hand at commercial drones via the courses at the college.
A question we should ask though. Is why a degree essentially became mandatory for so many fields. When it doesn’t even need to be a degree relevant to the work you’d actually be doing.
My Brother in law has a degree in psychology. He sells Pipes for a living. My Cousin also has a degree in Psychology and overseas a Warehouse and supply chain. I had a Manager with a Degree in History at my last job. He managed a retail store. My Dad had a degree in Computer Science. He managed Logistics for a Construction Company.
And then we load degree programs down with functionally useless classes. That would at best be something people could pursue on their own time if they had a desire. Like the Arts and like 60-70% of the humanities.
I’m told though it’s a requirement because it’ll show you have drive to see something through or some crap.
That's what one of my profs told us. It shows that we have the stamina, ability and desire to achieve a long term goal. What we learn wasn't as important.
Sounds more like someone trying to justify his Jobs existence.
Though I’d venture that belief is part of the problem. As frankly unless you’re the CEO or a Senior Executive.
You don’t set long term goals. Whether or not you can set and meet a goal isn’t up to you as the grunt or low/mid-ranking management. Someone else hire up the chain handles the goal setting.
And your desire to keep collecting a check and putting a roof over your head. Handles taking care of the desire to achieve whatever goal is set by the superiors.
And ability is something you frankly either have or don’t. What you learn doesn’t influence it heavily. You can have a dozen fancy degrees and still be a stagnant Middle-Manager. As people just have caps on much they can improve and excel in certain roles. And eventually they’ll hit a role where they might not be bad enough to justify firing. But they certainly aren’t good enough to justify promoting past it.
All the pieces of paper and theoretical knowledge and qualifications can’t fix that.