Mike Rowe has a take on the current college climate

4-year degree is the new highschool diploma when you're looking for a job, but with asstons of debt instead of just some trombone or something you'll never play again.

Is Mike Rowe
On Fox Business
Talking about a culture war issue
Who hasn't been to college in decades

Correct about what current college grads think about their degrees? Or about anything else?

No.

Given it's Mike Rowe and it's on Fox, he's probably using some real shit reasoning but I'll agree the prestige of degrees are definitely wearing a bit thin.

Kai_Laguna posted...

Given it's Mike Rowe and it's on Fox, he's probably using some real shit reasoning but I'll agree the prestige of degrees are definitely wearing a bit thin.

He actually does a good job of not taking the Fox people's bait of giving a controversial opinion they wanted.

voldothegr8 posted...

He actually does a good job of not taking the Fox people's bait of giving a controversial opinion they wanted.

What's he say so we don't have to watch the video and give Fox views.

Questionmarktarius posted...

4-year degree is the new highschool diploma when you're looking for a job, but with asstons of debt instead of just some trombone or something you'll never play again.

Yeah, that's a thing I think Boomers have a hard time understanding because when they were entering the workforce a 4-year degree was something special that made someone stand out. But now it doesn't because so many more people have them. It's just become a baseline requirement for a lot of jobs.

In the field I work in a 4-year degree is required but most of the time a degree on its own is not enough to get your foot in the door anymore. You need an internship for that.