Re: Higher Education Is Overrated

On 8/22/2024 5:04 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

 https://hbr.org/2010/07/higher-education-is-highly-ove

The same theme was covered in a WSJ feature story yesterday, page 9.  That's USA's highest circulation paper BTW.
Half of 4-year grads are not employed in their degree field five years out.
IMHO that's neither good nor bad, just perhaps counterintuitive.
We all know highly successful people whose degree prepared them, often indirectly, for achievement in other areas.  My brother the scientist is well respected with a steady stream of published papers frequently cited in his field which is unrelated to his actual degree area. One of our founders:
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returned to university in his 40s for a second four year degree in architecture and passed his licenture. After two years of menial fast food and dentist office buildings at an established firm, he moved on to a different more lucrative, successful and satisfying career.
They are not all that unusual.  And then again we all know PhD cab drivers and pizza delivery guys.
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