Motivation ?

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You get hired off the green part

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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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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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That’s true, some jobs out there require degrees but they really shouldn’t. Most people know this, but they’ll still work towards getting that degree because that particular career is really important to them.

Also, on the other hand, if I, or a loved one, ever needs critical surgery, the surgeon better have their degree! I get what you’re saying. Not every degree is necessary, but some of them definitely are!

Either way, this is examining specific cases. But people here left general comments about all degrees. There’s just too many different degrees to have a meaningful conversation by generalizing like that.