Thursday, November 6, 2014
Chapter 18
While reading over chapter 18 a topic that stood out to me was the effects of college because that is something I relate to. Students attend college to secure better jobs and to learn specific skills. Things have changed greatly over the years. For instance when my mother and father were kids college wasn't at all a big deal. You could still get good jobs without having a college degree. Both my parents have really good job and both did not go to college. In today's age, you basically have to go to college to even get a decent paying job. I was not at all surprised at the statistics that stated that more than half US students have to take out loans, because all the people I know have to take out loans. In the book it states that the average income of a full time workers with a BA make 73,000 dollars annually. I definitely think that has changed, and the average has significantly went down.
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I agree that college is necessary for a good paying job except in construction and the like, and in certain subsets of the population such as the Amish and Mennonites. Most of them do not have even a high school education and many own their own businesses and are quite successful financially. Among these groups very few go to college and if they do it is usually more about pursuing a life work or dream than making lots of money. I myself have a nice hourly rate working part time for an Amish owned company. Though I don't have a degree my non-credit herbal education enabled me to get this job. If this company wasn't Amish owned I probably would have to have a degree to have this position in the company. Because of my work I haven't had to take out a loan yet, though I have gotten state and federal aid. I'll be transferring to a private university to complete my bachelor's so I'll probably have to get a sizable loan to cover the increased cost. A degree will give me more options for a good paying job, but I kind of prefer being self-employed as I am now. I don't expect to ever make close to 73,000 a year after I graduate.
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