DOES HIGHER EDUCATION GUARANTEES JOB IN IRAN?
Higher education, Guarantees job?
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success. But what everyone knows is wrong. There are things education can’t do the notion that putting more kids through the university can restore mid class society we used to have is wishful thinking. It really begs a big question that “do young people in our country really require a higher education degree to succeed?” we all know Bill Gates who dropped out of college and it certainly didn’t hold him back. It’s no longer true that having a college degree guarantees a good job and it is becoming less true with each passing decade.
A hard but true fact is that though people have a dream career in mind as they go through university. The dream may never come true. Some majors are less practical than others or a certain field may be extra competitive or perhaps a tragic life event happens that require you to take a job that you don’t necessarily go to school for. Many Iranian students go to a four year college to guarantee themselves for an ambitious career. However they may end up with jobs that never need to get a B.A degree in first place. I’ve experienced it myself. When I was a sophomore English major in translator training course in Rasht Azad University, I got married. I had to get a secure job so I decided to take an exam for employment in Bank. I was accepted both in the exam and interview while I hadn’t been graduated yet. They didn’t know that I’m a B.A student. They supposed me to have a diploma and it was ok for me .For many years I didn’t have such a right to present my B.A degree to get a higher salary. So I told myself what a waste of time it was! I’d always have a dream to be university professor rather than to be a banker. In our country, graduates having difficulty finding a job in their desired field. I was very lucky to find a secure job before I was graduated.
In the other hand, there are some families who believe that “the
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success. But what everyone knows is wrong. There are things education can’t do the notion that putting more kids through the university can restore mid class society we used to have is wishful thinking. It really begs a big question that “do young people in our country really require a higher education degree to succeed?” we all know Bill Gates who dropped out of college and it certainly didn’t hold him back. It’s no longer true that having a college degree guarantees a good job and it is becoming less true with each passing decade.
A hard but true fact is that though people have a dream career in mind as they go through university. The dream may never come true. Some majors are less practical than others or a certain field may be extra competitive or perhaps a tragic life event happens that require you to take a job that you don’t necessarily go to school for. Many Iranian students go to a four year college to guarantee themselves for an ambitious career. However they may end up with jobs that never need to get a B.A degree in first place. I’ve experienced it myself. When I was a sophomore English major in translator training course in Rasht Azad University, I got married. I had to get a secure job so I decided to take an exam for employment in Bank. I was accepted both in the exam and interview while I hadn’t been graduated yet. They didn’t know that I’m a B.A student. They supposed me to have a diploma and it was ok for me .For many years I didn’t have such a right to present my B.A degree to get a higher salary. So I told myself what a waste of time it was! I’d always have a dream to be university professor rather than to be a banker. In our country, graduates having difficulty finding a job in their desired field. I was very lucky to find a secure job before I was graduated.
In the other hand, there are some families who believe that “the