Comments on: Why You Don’t Need a College Degree http://learnfinancialplanning.com/why-you-dont-need-a-college-degree/ Financial planning for creative minds. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: AD Wells http://learnfinancialplanning.com/why-you-dont-need-a-college-degree/#comment-348 AD Wells Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:48:41 +0000 http://learnfinancialplanning.com/?p=264#comment-348 It's true you don't need a degree for web design. I'm self-taught, having used computers since I was a toddler in the DOS era, but it's never enough. I've only gotten one job for web design, and that's because I know the guy. Literally everywhere else in the area requires that you have a bachelor's degree and six years' experience in obscure technologies only they will ever find practical. Since I was laid off, I haven't gotten a single hit yet. No interviews, no responses from applications, and any time I call, I get juggled between three or four different phone numbers. Having a portfolio doesn't help at all, since they read the resume before anything else and just ignore your previous work because you're a high school graduate. They don't care what you're able to do or how well you're able to do it. It's nothing short of class separation. You're either wealthy/lucky enough to get the degree, or you stay poor. And it's not like the degree is even a good sign of intelligence. It shows more that the person did it to learn a skill so they could get a job rather than getting a job for a skill they enjoy using. My last boss was a college graduate with a bachelor's in web design, and he knows absolutely nothing about it, or even how to use a computer. I had to hold his hand so that he could locate a PowerPoint presentation on a shared network drive, and I had to explain to him in detail how Internet Explorer is the worst browser in existence. It’s true you don’t need a degree for web design. I’m self-taught, having used computers since I was a toddler in the DOS era, but it’s never enough. I’ve only gotten one job for web design, and that’s because I know the guy. Literally everywhere else in the area requires that you have a bachelor’s degree and six years’ experience in obscure technologies only they will ever find practical. Since I was laid off, I haven’t gotten a single hit yet. No interviews, no responses from applications, and any time I call, I get juggled between three or four different phone numbers. Having a portfolio doesn’t help at all, since they read the resume before anything else and just ignore your previous work because you’re a high school graduate. They don’t care what you’re able to do or how well you’re able to do it. It’s nothing short of class separation. You’re either wealthy/lucky enough to get the degree, or you stay poor.

And it’s not like the degree is even a good sign of intelligence. It shows more that the person did it to learn a skill so they could get a job rather than getting a job for a skill they enjoy using. My last boss was a college graduate with a bachelor’s in web design, and he knows absolutely nothing about it, or even how to use a computer. I had to hold his hand so that he could locate a PowerPoint presentation on a shared network drive, and I had to explain to him in detail how Internet Explorer is the worst browser in existence.

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