Is College Worth It
Todays society stresses on the level of education one has completed. Statistics state that the more schooling you have, the more money you should make. To earn your Bachelorettes Degree can take years to achieve and cost thousands of dollars in the process. Does committing four or more years and tens of thousands of dollars in expenses for college pay off in the long run?
To help compare the pay off, let us look at potential salaries for a high school versus college graduate over an employment span of thirty years. According to www.pbs.org, a high school graduate can make on average around $36,424 per year. This average computes to $1,092,720 over the course of a thirty-year employment span considering a constant rate. …show more content…
Finding a job right out of college can be incredibly frustrating. After spending four or more years specializing in a certain field, many people out of college cannot find a job in their specialty. From my own experience, I am one of those who earned an Associates degree and then worked in fields unrelated to my specialization for a couple of years before joining the Navy. Professional employers are looking for people not only with college degrees but also the experience to go with that degree. The dilemma then becomes that you cannot get the experience required without a job that gives you that experience so you are considered not qualified. I have talked with a countless number of people with Bachelorettes and Masters Degrees that end up working at restaurants, grocery stores, and any odd jobs they could find due to this dilemma. Another quandary can occur when perhaps the degree you pursued does not have as high a demand as previously considered. For example, I am pursuing a Bachelorettes Degree in Computer Science, which is currently a high demand focus. Presuming the computer industry is hiring up to 5,000 new people each year with this projected rate to continue over the next twenty years, the number of people earning a Computer Science Degree can easily increase and surpass the rate of jobs available. The job market then becomes
Todays society stresses on the level of education one has completed. Statistics state that the more schooling you have, the more money you should make. To earn your Bachelorettes Degree can take years to achieve and cost thousands of dollars in the process. Does committing four or more years and tens of thousands of dollars in expenses for college pay off in the long run?
To help compare the pay off, let us look at potential salaries for a high school versus college graduate over an employment span of thirty years. According to www.pbs.org, a high school graduate can make on average around $36,424 per year. This average computes to $1,092,720 over the course of a thirty-year employment span considering a constant rate. …show more content…
Finding a job right out of college can be incredibly frustrating. After spending four or more years specializing in a certain field, many people out of college cannot find a job in their specialty. From my own experience, I am one of those who earned an Associates degree and then worked in fields unrelated to my specialization for a couple of years before joining the Navy. Professional employers are looking for people not only with college degrees but also the experience to go with that degree. The dilemma then becomes that you cannot get the experience required without a job that gives you that experience so you are considered not qualified. I have talked with a countless number of people with Bachelorettes and Masters Degrees that end up working at restaurants, grocery stores, and any odd jobs they could find due to this dilemma. Another quandary can occur when perhaps the degree you pursued does not have as high a demand as previously considered. For example, I am pursuing a Bachelorettes Degree in Computer Science, which is currently a high demand focus. Presuming the computer industry is hiring up to 5,000 new people each year with this projected rate to continue over the next twenty years, the number of people earning a Computer Science Degree can easily increase and surpass the rate of jobs available. The job market then becomes