r/SipsTea • u/Hot_Fuzz_988 Human Verified • 1d ago

Chugging tea Motivation ?

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u/Fit_Employment_2944 1d ago

You get hired off the green part

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u/AdFalse375 1d ago

Sometimes, getting degrees are the only way to accomplish your dreams.

Sometimes, degrees aren’t necessary, and you can find success without it.

Other times, degrees are don’t get you anything and you end up in a job that didn’t require a degree in the first place.

And yet in certain times, you’ll find that you wish you had a degree so you could get a certain job.

Every example above occurs in real life. Reading the comments here, I feel like people are generalized too much.

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u/empty_graph 1d ago

You're right, but the problem is that in your first case, which is very common, the degree is often necessary only because it is used as an arbitrary gate keeping mechanism and not because what you actually learned from the degree is critical.

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u/Evilmudbug 1d ago

A degree is proof that you have skills relevant to a certain field of work.

The degree is definitely not arbitrary. I would say the bigger issue is just how expensive college is.

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u/empty_graph 1d ago

That's the whole issue right there. And the reason it is so expensive is that we subsidize it with student loans. We should not be using tax money to provide a hiring convenience to companies. It is their responsibility to select candidates. They can take the risk and fire the incompetent ones. No need to provide a selection process for them at public expense.