What Does Having a Degree Say about A Person?

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In the modern world, Degree = Professional. Having a degree tells a perspective employer that you are a career minded professional. ~You finish what you start. What does is it like to return to the job market without a degree. It is usually worse to have a few credits than to never have gone to college at all. No matter what the reasons are, all it tells the perspective employer is, you don't finish what he starts. ~When given a task, no matter how little sense it seems to make, you will carry it out. Let's face it, not much of what we have to do in college makes much sense. Assignments that go on and on hours after you've gleaned the last bit of knowledge you'll ever get from it. Projects that will be dumped in the garbage 5 minutes after they are returned with a grade. Writing assignments that will only be read by a TA you'll never meet. Think of that in terms of presentations that may never be presented, ideas that will never be accepted and memos and manuals that will go all but ignored. ~You can prioritize your time and resources. Yes, college is one party after the other. Yes, there is ample time for activities, road trips and other frivolous endevours, but a student who gets a degree is able to put all that aside when its time to get down and do some hard core studying, writing or project building. The ones who never learn how to do this, end up not finishing at all. ~You are able to work with others to get the job done. The whole college experience forces people who may not get along together. Dorms and apartments, study groups, project groups, annoying people sitting next to you while you are trying to take notes... or being the annoying one. By the time you have that degree in hand, you have had to interact with enough disagreeable people to last a lifetime. Guess what though, you don't get to decide who you will work with. Absolutely nothing against technical schools, but having been involved in both technical schools and college, I can tell you that they offer very little in these departments. Since you are done with more technical training courses in a matter of a year or two, there isn't the long distance run to have to endure. Technical school schedules usually try to work around the students schedule, so there really isn't as much time prioritizing to be done. The same is true with having to work with others. Technical schools don't put much emphasis on outside the classroom projects, which limits the amount of time you have to work with other people. This isn't an article against Technical Schools, but I wanted to include a few examples of how they don't really tell the same story that a degree tells. In short, Technical Schools teach a student how to do a job, which is what they are there for, so they do a great job. "Why don't they just give me a chance" can't work since they can't give all 500 applicants an equal shot at "proving themselves" for the 1 or 2 openings.