Students in their senior year of High School most likely already have plans for life after free education. Many plan to continue their studies and go to college, while others plan to go straight into the work force. Most people go to college to get a degree to help their chances of getting a good career. In the article “Why the decline in college attendance is good news,” the author, Max Ehrenfreund explains how less people are going to school and back to work, the author claims that going back to college isn’t necessarily your best or only option anymore to get a job. Contrary to the authors claim going to college is probably still your best bet at getting a good stable job, and going straight to work is more than likely not going to guarantee
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He states that now that the economy is getting better more businesses are hiring again and having a college degree isn’t essential anymore to get hired. Yes the economy is on the rise again and there are more job openings, just because they’re hiring doesn’t mean they’ll hire someone without a degree. Let’s say there’s an opening for a job as a payroll director and theirs two candidates, candidate A has a Bachelors degree in Business and, candidate B has a High school diploma, who’s going to get the job? The business with the available position will without a doubt hire candidate A. The author talks about people going straight to work and skipping college he says, “From their point of view, their time and money are better spent working.”Not going to college and going straight to the work force could be a viable option at the moment but what happens if the economy crashes again? Those people will be out of a job and at a disadvantage compared to those who continued their schooling. An assumption is made that the decrease in the enrollment of students over 24, “Mostly appears to be a result of unemployment coming down about 4.5 percentage points,” this assumption has no real support, there could be a number of reasons why there is a decline in enrollments of students over 24. One reason might be that more people are starting college younger and finishing at an earlier
He states that now that the economy is getting better more businesses are hiring again and having a college degree isn’t essential anymore to get hired. Yes the economy is on the rise again and there are more job openings, just because they’re hiring doesn’t mean they’ll hire someone without a degree. Let’s say there’s an opening for a job as a payroll director and theirs two candidates, candidate A has a Bachelors degree in Business and, candidate B has a High school diploma, who’s going to get the job? The business with the available position will without a doubt hire candidate A. The author talks about people going straight to work and skipping college he says, “From their point of view, their time and money are better spent working.”Not going to college and going straight to the work force could be a viable option at the moment but what happens if the economy crashes again? Those people will be out of a job and at a disadvantage compared to those who continued their schooling. An assumption is made that the decrease in the enrollment of students over 24, “Mostly appears to be a result of unemployment coming down about 4.5 percentage points,” this assumption has no real support, there could be a number of reasons why there is a decline in enrollments of students over 24. One reason might be that more people are starting college younger and finishing at an earlier