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GreatEvilEmpire posted...

I have a 1000 page Art History book on my shelf. I can read it and learn more about art history than 2 college courses combined. Why do I need to pay a school thousands to do that and the only jobs I can find are work in a Museum and maybe as a Professor? The most common path for people with useless degrees is customer service...I've seen so many cases of it. You need a bit more schooling for Philosophy, but why bother?

There are many things I've picked up over the years that makes me as good, if not better than many people who majored in it. One of them is marketing. Another is project management. Most people sleepwalk through college, so their knowledge is fairly shallow. If I'm passionate enough about something and I want to spend time learning it, I can be just as good, if not better than many college majors.

You may think it's arrogant, but I'm confident about my abilities. When you think about how much time people spend on a major, it's not that much. Most colleges don't give you the good stuff until the last year, because their whole scheme is make you stretch everything to 4 years, when most of the material can easily be condense to a year.

Exceptions exist, but it's foolish for hiring managers to assume everyone is as self-driven as you are to read a 1,000 page art history text in their free time.

Spend some time in non-educated, non-skilled industries like food, customer service, or retail. When you have a college-educated applicant, it's a "weak" screen that they have a certain minimum of intellect, problem solving, or work ethic. Sure, some kids coast through college, but if you spend time in those aforementioned industries I mentioned, you'll find a pool of high school graduates who set the bar muuuuuuuch lower. Brushing off a college education, even if coasted, ignores just how little someone can do with themselves.

So yeah, while exceptions exist, it's not at all reasonable to expect them to know that about you because you say you read a lot.
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