Graduate Degress: Are they worth it?

[Monoriu]

Vancouver isn't in the U.S.

A close enough approximation 

[HVC]

Reading is fundamental, guys.

over rated

[FunkMonk]

I have a B.A., a high GPA and a few honors, but am making ~$24,000 a year
At least I enjoy my job

I find it interesting that of all Languish's under-30 American crowd, the only one who has a mainstream job is garbo.  Fireblade works for the higher education scam, and you, Tim, and soon I will be expatriates.

I guess it's some consolation to know that the world language will survive America.

Iirc Alci is in school, as am I, so there's still hope.

Although, I think Alci is going through ROTC.

[Ideologue]

Lettow's in school too.

I wasn't counting military service as mainstream, since it's potentially life-disruptive and isn't necessarily 9-5, 40 hours a week, and if you just walk out it's like a crime or something.

[FunkMonk]

Lettow's in school too.

I wasn't counting military service as mainstream, since it's potentially life-disruptive and isn't necessarily 9-5, 40 hours a week, and if you just walk out it's like a crime or something.

Yeah the military sucks. Good thing I left it.

[Tonitrus]

Vancouver isn't in the U.S.

Sure it is.  It's where people like Fahdiz can go across the river and experience the exhilaration of pumping their own gas.

[Barrister]

Vancouver isn't in the U.S.

Sure it is.  It's where people like Fahdiz can go across the river and experience the exhilaration of pumping their own gas.

And the horror of having to pre-pay for the privilege.

[Ideologue]

That's not alien to the U.S., I assure you.

[11B4V]

You and your colleagues' failures to get degrees demonstrate the inability to follow through with anything. Thus, you will all fail personally and professionally.

Failing with a six figure salary is okay, I think, even in this day and age.

Not that I'm making six figures. This start up business doesn't pay that well up front (and maybe not in the end either).

However, you are the exception are you not?  Would you counsel your kids, when you have them, to roll the dice and take the chance of being successful without a degree in their hip pocket?

Our kids can be exceptions, too.

I am in the 6-figure salary camp with no degree. However, I am slowly working on a Bachelor of Art in History from an online degree mill.

Bingo

[11B4V]

Lettow's in school too.

I wasn't counting military service as mainstream, since it's potentially life-disruptive and isn't necessarily 9-5, 40 hours a week, and if you just walk out it's like a crime or something.

Yeah the military sucks. Good thing I left it.

No it doesn't.

[Tonitrus]

Lettow's in school too.

I wasn't counting military service as mainstream, since it's potentially life-disruptive and isn't necessarily 9-5, 40 hours a week, and if you just walk out it's like a crime or something.

Yeah the military sucks. Good thing I left it.

No it doesn't.

It's not for everyone. 

But also, it has opportunities for a wide range of people.  If you want to be a hardass, you can join the Marines.  If you're gay, the Navy.  If you like dealing with a constant diarrhea of stupid bullshit, there is the Army.  If you want to be a semi-lazy computer gamer, there are Air Force jobs like the one I have. 

[Barrister]

That's not alien to the U.S., I assure you.

But as a matter of law?

[sbr]

Vancouver isn't in the U.S.

Sure it is.  It's where people like Fahdiz can go across the river and experience the exhilaration of pumping their own gas.

God I hate crossing that river, Washingtonians are horrible drivers.  Unfortunately I have friends up there and that is where most of the large get-togethers end up.

[Tonitrus]

Vancouver isn't in the U.S.

Sure it is.  It's where people like Fahdiz can go across the river and experience the exhilaration of pumping their own gas.

God I hate crossing that river, Washingtonians are horrible drivers.  Unfortunately I have friends up there and that is where most of the large get-togethers end up.

I've driven across Oregon a number of times, you guys aren't any better.

But then, I pretty much think drivers everywhere suck at this point.

And this is also true....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxaF5Pq5D8

[fhdz]

Sure it is.  It's where people like Fahdiz can go across the river and experience the exhilaration of pumping their own gas.

When I moved to Oregon, it was a 2200-mile road trip. I remember very vividly getting out of the car at a gas station to fill it and having the attendant RUN in my direction, waving his hands around and saying "no no no" like I had dynamite strapped to my chest.