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Not to be rude or unsypathetic, but did you think that spending $80K was going to turn you into an artist?
Just because the person did not have a successful art career doesn't mean they aren't and artist and didn't become a better one.
interesting to see that talent might beat out education is no longer an idea here
As someone who racked up nearly $80K in debt going to art school, I think they're making the right choice (mostly). In some cases it really makes sense to go to college, but it's a terrible model for many skills.
Did you have fun though? Because imho, that’s part of the point.
Being a plumber, for example, is far more lucrative for most people. Military, police, then lawyer route is also very lucrative.
As someone who racked up nearly $80K in debt going to art school, I think they're making the right choice (mostly). In some cases it really makes sense to go to college, but it's a terrible model for many skills.
Not to be rude or unsypathetic, but did you think that spending $80K was going to turn you into an artist?
1. A trade school for technical professionals who actually need specialist education (scientists, engineers, lawyers, doctors, etc.)
2. A finishing school for the elite
3. A blood sports arena for the brilliant to complete for professorships (almost all of whom will lose and be saddled with 6 figures of debt and 7 figures of opportunity cost)
A lot of people have been tricked into going to general education and liberal arts college programs (the finishing school parts) without the money to pay in full under the guise of "becoming a lifelong learner" or something, and this completely cripples them in the future when they could otherwise have had great careers in fields that don't truly need the education you get from a college.
It's good that students are turning away now. The market is correcting itself.
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I have been programming for a Fortune 500 company for four years. Not long ago, I applied for a job at another Fortune 500 company. HR really had only question for me, they saw on my resume I did not have a college degree listed, and did I have one? I said I went through most of college towards a Bachelors in Computer Science but dropped out before graduation. I did not get the job, although I don't know if that's wh…
That is generally the only reason companies will stick to the bscs requirement. Normally if you have requisite experience the degree - especially bscs is not needed.
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Not to be rude or unsypathetic, but did you think that spending $80K was going to turn you into an artist?
college isn’t quite equivalent to trade school, it wasn’t really about getting a degree in a career field until it became so outrageously expensive that you needed to constantly consider how you’d pay it back
a bit like programming, or anything else, when i come to think of it...
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