Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
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Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
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#2> Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree.
Of course, the majority of these are probably retail, manufacturing, and support staff. Cook himself has a degree (MBA), as do most of the software engineers at Apple, I’m sure.
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#3The Economist had an article about 6 weeks ago that reached the opposite conclusion. It essentially found a comfortable middle class lifestyle was going to be hard to achieve without higher education now, compared with previous generations. Now, it wasn’t specifically looking at coders and Tim was, but the title doesn’t mention that.
Re: Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
#4> Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree. Of course, the majority of these are probably retail, manufacturing, and support staff. Cook himself has a degree (MBA), as do most of the software engineers at Apple, I’m sure.
>...manufacturing, and support staff...
Aren't those outsourced (to different countries, no less), so they wouldn't actually be counted as US employment statistics?
Re: Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
#5The Economist had an article about 6 weeks ago that reached the opposite conclusion. It essentially found a comfortable middle class lifestyle was going to be hard to achieve without higher education now, compared with previous generations. Now, it wasn’t specifically looking at coders and Tim was, but the title doesn’t mention that.
Andrew Yang 2020 pres candidate articulated the realities of college education extremely well in the world of automation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMCsXq_mYw
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#7A lot of current jobs directly tied to some sort of college degrees will be automated out of existence in the near future.
Re: Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
#8> Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree. Of course, the majority of these are probably retail, manufacturing, and support staff. Cook himself has a degree (MBA), as do most of the software engineers at Apple, I’m sure.
True, although Steve Jobs didn't have a college degree. Bill Gates dropped out too. We have to be careful to avoid survivorship bias though.
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#9I don't think you need a college degree to be successful, i don't even think you need a good college degree. I do believe it increases your chances of living a comfortable and fulfilling life.
Re: Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
#10> Cook also added that about half of Apple's US employment last year was made up of people who did not have a four-year degree. Of course, the majority of these are probably retail, manufacturing, and support staff. Cook himself has a degree (MBA), as do most of the software engineers at Apple, I’m sure.
I am a former senior software engineer at Apple and I do not have a degree.