Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 31, 2009

That is supremely scary!!!

Sorry, I’ve been seeing them all my life. It’s not scary or funny, just sad!

My mother told me that those men wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing.

This one is hitting a little too close to home!

My father always said he shouldn’t have got his doctorate. He was more employable with just a masters’. He has retired now of course, this was in the 70s & 80s mostly that he was over-qualified and difficult to employ.

Doc ST Neither of my brothers completed their first year of college, and now they both have full-time jobs.

Lewreader, sometimes what they’re “doing” is whatever people and organizations with money tell them to do.

My grandfather was complaining in the 60s about all the druggie radicals hanging around in their long hair and ripped jeans. My grandmother said as long as she knew where they were, she didn’t mind. She said she’d only start to worry when they cut their hair, bought a suit and went to Congress or became college professors.

Anyone have any guesses as to where most of them ended up?

I didn’t go to college and I have had to train some college graduates. Most of them were okay, but some of them as dumb as dirt. EDIT My Mom schooled me. She was an accountant. I was running a 10 key calculator by touch at the age of 12.

going off to college is suppose to be the smart thing to do, I’m not so sure. I know some who worked out of highschool and went to a trade school and are making more money and have a higher IQ than those college grads. So that is what I am advising my son to do too. Also I am homeschooling him. He has a better grasp on life than his peers.

newworldmozart, good for you! I plan on homeschooling as well.

It’s true, most people have college degrees that wind up having nothing to do with their chosen careers.

I majored in communications. I wound up wanting to be a librarian. But for now, I’m stuck in health care administration. No library openings in my county at the moment.

Hubby never made it to college, but he can do things to a computer that make my computer geek brother’s head spin. And all of it is on-the-job training.

Now if only he could get a tech job, I could afford to quit and be a home school mom.

Good luck with the home school thing! It’s tough, but very rewarding!

Boo! gundy2, thank you. I still miss her wisdom. She passed away this past July from breast cancer that metastasized to her brain, causing a stroke.

I often wonder what the world would have been like had she had more influence.

That is scary … I hope that doesn’t happen to me.

I’m a college grad, working on an MA, but I’m not going for a Ph.D. People with MAs make more than people with BAs, but people with PhDs often don’t make anything at all. One of my friends has a Ph.D. and he made about $35,000 a year. Not much. I made more as a secretary without a BA.

One of my roommates dropped out of high school and started making $85k a year working for the gov’t in computers. However, most people don’t manage to make it that well. For all the people I know who got a good job without a BA, I know 3 who work in the service industry for awful wages. So college is still a good deal.

Almost no one at 50 is still doing what they did at 25, especially today when all the factories are closing. Having a degree (or not) has nothing to do with that. It’s not a question of the worth of the degree so much as it is a statement about our society and its economics.

I’m 50 and still doing what I did at 25. But, I’m in a health-related field (audiology) with a clinical doctorate (Au.D., not Ph.D). The demand in my field is growing.