College Elevation Or Stagnation
College, Elevation or Stagnation?
My whole life I have heard it said that going to college is a must to survive in the economy and live a successful life, but is that true? Recent events beg to differ as seen in a Newsweek article where they quoted a professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, Anthony Carnevale, saying college graduates make up almost “40 percent of the unemployed in the U.S.”. This example forms just one argument that I will use, along with the price that college demands for its services and its uselessness in fields of employment, to convince you that college isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. The first argument and by far the most important to anyone who doesn’t have 120,000+ dollars …show more content…
The first being there are plenty of jobs that pay a decent or an above average salary without the requirement of a college degree. For example, over at CareerCast they have amounted a list of excellent jobs that require no college degree ranging from executive assistant to web developer, that latter of which has an average salary of 75,000+ dollars. So ask yourself if you could earn up to 75,000 dollars a year, why would you rather want to be in debt for a undetermined amount of time as a consequence of attending college and possibly work at a job that may or may not give you a salary that’s larger than a job you could get without going to college? If you answered “I wouldn’t” than I'm glad I could shed some light on the issue for you, if however you answered “ I would still attend college,” then allow my second reasoning to appeal to your idealistic side, I am of course talking about the alternatives to college and how they can be just as rewarding as college is. Several alternatives to college are considered as some of the best things a citizen of the United States can do, such as: Military Service, a hospital aide, etc. For instance, those who enlist in the military are viewed as heroes by all, sacrificing their personal freedom and even their lives for the safety and freedom of the American people. If we compare the accomplishments of a soldier to that of a college graduate, who only choose college because everyone told them that college was the only road that led to a successful and secure life, it is apparent who is the more accomplished. All without the crushing mountain of debt, but also the uncertainty of what you're doing with your life, making you secure of your position in life but also your contributions to the greater good of
My whole life I have heard it said that going to college is a must to survive in the economy and live a successful life, but is that true? Recent events beg to differ as seen in a Newsweek article where they quoted a professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, Anthony Carnevale, saying college graduates make up almost “40 percent of the unemployed in the U.S.”. This example forms just one argument that I will use, along with the price that college demands for its services and its uselessness in fields of employment, to convince you that college isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. The first argument and by far the most important to anyone who doesn’t have 120,000+ dollars …show more content…
The first being there are plenty of jobs that pay a decent or an above average salary without the requirement of a college degree. For example, over at CareerCast they have amounted a list of excellent jobs that require no college degree ranging from executive assistant to web developer, that latter of which has an average salary of 75,000+ dollars. So ask yourself if you could earn up to 75,000 dollars a year, why would you rather want to be in debt for a undetermined amount of time as a consequence of attending college and possibly work at a job that may or may not give you a salary that’s larger than a job you could get without going to college? If you answered “I wouldn’t” than I'm glad I could shed some light on the issue for you, if however you answered “ I would still attend college,” then allow my second reasoning to appeal to your idealistic side, I am of course talking about the alternatives to college and how they can be just as rewarding as college is. Several alternatives to college are considered as some of the best things a citizen of the United States can do, such as: Military Service, a hospital aide, etc. For instance, those who enlist in the military are viewed as heroes by all, sacrificing their personal freedom and even their lives for the safety and freedom of the American people. If we compare the accomplishments of a soldier to that of a college graduate, who only choose college because everyone told them that college was the only road that led to a successful and secure life, it is apparent who is the more accomplished. All without the crushing mountain of debt, but also the uncertainty of what you're doing with your life, making you secure of your position in life but also your contributions to the greater good of