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How many people went to university??
- Thread starter Hubbleman
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This chart from 2013 shows how beneficial a college degree can be. Workers in the US with a formal education earn more and have lower unemployment rates on average.
What you study in college definitely matters. Lots of majors seem interesting but not practical in terms of starting a career.
I'm telling you that if you don't study a subject relevant to today's market and economy, you will be shit out of luck, and stuck with student loans you can't afford to pay. Even now, getting a relevant education will still place you in competition with educated foreign workers who are paid less than the market rate for any given profession. I remember 10+ years ago pharmacy was the next big thing, with great pay, but now go to a pharmacy and see if the pharmacist is American; most likely not. All the big pharmacies actually recruit in countries such as India, Pakistan and Nigeria, Kenya, you name it. Why? because they are paid less.
I would seriously consider learning a trade. Another good career if you can handle it is nursing; good pay, and you can work anywhere.
If you do well in H.S. and you have a chance to go Ivy league do it! Not so much for the better education because many schools are better, but for the networking possibilities.
Start networking early in your education. You are your OWN BRAND!
It really comes down to who you know. You will have a serious advantage if you are connected to the right people.
I hope that this help some.
RF
I would seriously consider learning a trade. Another good career if you can handle it is nursing; good pay, and you can work anywhere.
If you do well in H.S. and you have a chance to go Ivy league do it! Not so much for the better education because many schools are better, but for the networking possibilities.
Start networking early in your education. You are your OWN BRAND!
It really comes down to who you know. You will have a serious advantage if you are connected to the right people.
I hope that this help some.
RF
I don't believe any numbers that relate to employment figures.
I watch news until 1 then take a nap then watch Netflix movies until 9 or so when I go to bed. I'm usually up at 7. I worked the system - free degree, free place, free food, free cash, a free phone...My Netflix bill is 7 and my gym bill is 10 every month
You sir, are what's wrong with the country. Your welcome for me paying a portion of your life. Personally, working for what I have is much more rewarding than taking what others have worked hard for. It's called integrity.
And then people say cannabis were 'a social drug'; sounds more like 'asocial drug' to me...
I was on night shift in an emergency pharmacy twice a week to finance my whole studies and boost the crappy PhD income cause I couldn't ask for a student grant and loaning simply is a no go for me. That were all in all 11 years of up to 80 hours labour per week (homework and alike not included). One years I couldn't even buy new clothes... remember, I'm male, I only buy clothes when the old ones start to look like fishnets
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I was on night shift in an emergency pharmacy twice a week to finance my whole studies and boost the crappy PhD income cause I couldn't ask for a student grant and loaning simply is a no go for me. That were all in all 11 years of up to 80 hours labour per week (homework and alike not included). One years I couldn't even buy new clothes... remember, I'm male, I only buy clothes when the old ones start to look like fishnets
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Geaux Tigers!!
BA in poli science. Not using my degree at all. Oilfield entrepreneur now. The value of college in the US is diminishing greatly though. You graduate with a mortgaged sized loan and enter true debt serfdom these days. Student loan bubble is well over $1 trillion now. Thank you Uncle Scam.
I got lucky or better yet I'm good at networking and seizing opportunities when I see them.
If you go, get a professional degree. Apply for as many scholarships and grants as you can stand to apply for.
Work hard and save money to invest in yourself to make it over the hump. It's hard to rise in our Neo-Feudal society, but there are niches that allow those with the fortitude and brains to do so.
BA in poli science. Not using my degree at all. Oilfield entrepreneur now. The value of college in the US is diminishing greatly though. You graduate with a mortgaged sized loan and enter true debt serfdom these days. Student loan bubble is well over $1 trillion now. Thank you Uncle Scam.
I got lucky or better yet I'm good at networking and seizing opportunities when I see them.
If you go, get a professional degree. Apply for as many scholarships and grants as you can stand to apply for.
Work hard and save money to invest in yourself to make it over the hump. It's hard to rise in our Neo-Feudal society, but there are niches that allow those with the fortitude and brains to do so.
I got laughed at and demeaned for going and learning trades instead of normal colledge....well I am laughing now..alot of my friends have huge student loans and didn't go to work at what they studied.....but almost everyone has a car and they all break down and or need serviceing...one of my many skills.... now I laugh everytime I do some simple ass car work and take their cash....he who laughs last laughs the loudest.....yeehaw
Over half the degrees from college are a joke now days. I am with Stoned-trout. I went to college for a year (Stanford) before life struck and I couldn't afford college anymore. Went strait into the trades and never looked back. Most years I make 80k plus, and I also fix my own house as I go. Just sold my house for a profit of over $420,000 from just 5 years ago.
As for my friends that went to college, NONE of them even own a house, let alone on their third house. My best bud went to UCLA and got a Bio - Chemical engineering degree and came out of school with $350,000 in school debt. Then he couldn't find a job in his field and started out in construction. Then he didn't like that so he went into banking. He still doesn't make more than $75,000 a year and has to pay $350,000 back before he can even think of buying a house.
As for my friends that went to college, NONE of them even own a house, let alone on their third house. My best bud went to UCLA and got a Bio - Chemical engineering degree and came out of school with $350,000 in school debt. Then he couldn't find a job in his field and started out in construction. Then he didn't like that so he went into banking. He still doesn't make more than $75,000 a year and has to pay $350,000 back before he can even think of buying a house.
after the jump out of plane he aint been right...
Henry Reefer
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There it is
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Mr.23
Pharmacy school. Make good money though not working with meds anymore. Btw, reason you see mostly foreign pharmacist behind the counter is because they are the ones with the education! Lol. There is if more of our kids would become pharmacists then you would see them. Very few of our kids go to school for that.... so that leaves companies no choice. The need is there but where is the talent??? They are not payed less.. lol. The medical industry is a little different than lots say construction. . Companies are going to get the talent they need regardless. But yes they prefer American educated pharmacist... The thing is that there is a shortage. So they have to get their employees from somewhere.. now pharmacy tech. Is diffrent...
Hi Mr. 23
Seems I'm not the only pharmacist here (or you're not...)
.Maybe it is that only a pharmacy is willing to sponsor the foreigners a Green Card? I try to get into the US pharma/biotech industries but 'No sir, no take stranger w/o Green Card' (if they answer at all). I wonder why maybe 90% of all R&D job postings worldwide in pharma and biotech are from the US. True, they have a lot of research facilities but still... Maybe they just hire&fire like a Gatling gun?
Besides, I once was on Sri Lanka and talked to a local pharmacist (he was gay and very interested in me... I'm not but used it a bit to my advantage so he became pretty talkative
). Anyway, they do like 6 month of evening school where they learn the package inserts of the most important products by heart and that's it. I was like WTF, I spent 5 years at the university with ~42 hours a week of lectures and lab etc. and know what's inside the tablet and how and where in the body it works (well, you know what I mean). He on the other hand didn't get what I was trying to explain... LOL
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Mr.23
Hello ornamental!
Not a pharmacist here but a pharm. tech.. lol.
I was responding to the dude who posted earlier. Before when the pharmacist shortage was crazy, yeah they would sponsor but not anymore.. yeah.. need green card now.... or a special set of skills that they really need then they would do what they need to get the person over here.
Lol.. If all they had to do to become a pharmacist was memorize the inserts.. what do they do to become a doctor?? Lol..
Well that's one way of using a guy dude/et. Lol... just be carefull.... lol!!!
Not a pharmacist here but a pharm. tech.. lol.
I was responding to the dude who posted earlier. Before when the pharmacist shortage was crazy, yeah they would sponsor but not anymore.. yeah.. need green card now.... or a special set of skills that they really need then they would do what they need to get the person over here.
Lol.. If all they had to do to become a pharmacist was memorize the inserts.. what do they do to become a doctor?? Lol..
Well that's one way of using a guy dude/et. Lol... just be carefull.... lol!!!
University of life..Graduated top of my class, went on to earn many post grad accolades in the the field of hedonsim and general slackass studies.
And I'm still more qualified to run the UK economy than Gideon Osborne.
And I'm still more qualified to run the UK economy than Gideon Osborne.
Careful of what you say....you might offend the powers that be and your statement will be clipped.
Clearly the mark of an educated person right?
