Gee, I just graduated from high school. Should I venture forth and find a job, earning a few bucks, gaining some experience? What am I going to do?
Scanning the employment ads it seems you have to get a degree to get a job interview. So, I'll get a degree. Sounds like fun.
About to get my Bachelor's degree, but sifting through the jobs that seem to interest me, simply holding a Bachelor's degree isn't sufficient to get hired.
Okay, I'll get a Master's. Should be interesting!Anyway, I'll earn more with a Master's, and that will make it easy to repay my loans.
This graduation is going to be fun. I get to stroll through it with the other Master's recipients.
But screening the career postings, it seems there are so few, and I'm overqualified for most of the jobs that are out there.
Okay, I'll drop the Master's degree from my resume, dumbing it down a bit. Later, after I'm hired, I'll wheel out this big gun credential to get my first promotion.
Oops! Nobody seems to be hiring at any level!
Here I am, with six figures of debt, living at home with my parents, who are now underwater in their mortgage because they extracted equity to help me to pay for my college education.
Dad's pay has been cut back, and he can't retire.
Mom is thinking of going back school to get a degree...
I should have a frank talk with her.
Plato famously said, education is the one good thing of which you cannot get too much.
He could get away with a generalization like that. He already had a job!
