I got ‘targeted’ by an ad for “internet marketing” by Full Sail University. I can’t imagine what a degree like that would do for me. This is one of those fields where you either know what you’re doing and have the integrity to do it, or you don’t. I mean come on, you’re in internet marketing but you can’t learn anything you don’t know by using Google? But honestly degrees are just like those ‘protection plans’ they sell you on electronics equipment. Sure, maybe you used one once and thought it was worth it, but over the life of all the ‘plans’ you purchase for all the electronics you use, you could have saved money just buying another TV, or whatever it is. With a degree, if you know how to do your work, it’s paying for someone’s approval, a few extra vocabulary words, and lousy job referrals that you could have gotten on LinkedIn or Facebook.
Sure, Doctors for instance, need to go to school, but even that is not for the degree, it’s for the internship and the license. Same with teachers – the state requires it. But it’s not the degree that matters – you’re going for the internship (which you pay them for, and could have gotten anyway) and certification. Degrees are either hurdles to jump through, required by the state or licensing association, or they’re a waste of time. A degree that’s voluntary is sucker’s work. Like Will said, in Good Will Hunting: “you dropped a a hundred thousand on an education you could have gotten for a dime in late fees at the public library.”‘
And I say this as someone who has three degrees, all of them useless. The diplomas are stashed in a cabinet, where they’ve never been requested in any interview.
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