Quote: (06-17-2011 08:40 PM)Vitriol Wrote:
I dunno man. I know plenty of people who have "a degree from a reputable school in the U.S." who are unemployed. I think that era is long gone... and trust me it can't totally be attributed to laziness and people not looking for jobs. There are tons of people floating around with useless Bachelor's degrees.
There are fields where prestige of undergrad / grad school is very important: law, finance, medicine. Sure, you can pull in $300k a year without an undergrad degree by selling drugs, or by opening your own chain of Verizon kiosks, or by building a number of successful affiliate marketing websites. But the numbers there are even lower than the numbers of people who study finance or law or medicine at a good school and make the same money. If you're studying history at the University of the Boonies satellite campus, you'll never see a return on that money, but people like to point to their cousin's best friend's nephew who doesnt have a degree and is a millionaire because he owns 6 pawn shops and say, "see! university is for suckers!". The statistics are still behind the people who go to good universities and graduate with marketable degrees.