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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a trend right now to allow people without a bachelor's degree to apply for corporate jobs.

I saw a posting this week for an economic/data analysis job that was looking for 16 years experience without a BA and 12 with.

It caught my attention because I have never met a person in the economics/data analysis field with less than a bachelor's.  I've known people with a different major to cross over into economics (e.g., physics).

So if you're a completely rare person, perhaps the mood is infinitesimally more favorable.[/quote]

I’m a lawyer in a legal field. Our best legal scholar who makes the most in our office only has a bachelors degree. It’s not a secret that she doesn’t have a law degree but no one even thinks to ask because she is so so good at her job. She’s not a practicing attorney so she doesn’t need to have a law degree. I would love to know how she got her job actually. She can poke holes in any argument and she knows case cites for everything.

I don’t think a degree proves anything. Some people are going to succeed regardless of what degree they have.

What we do need as a society is less people taking out student loans for bogus degrees from 2nd or 3rd tier universities. People having so much debt is weighing on our economy. Why not go into the trades instead?? Many members of my family are in the trades and 10 years later opened their own businesses. That’s a great path to wealth. [/quote]

It used to be a lot more common for people to get support staff jobs in white collar offices without college. Law firms would hire high school grads to be law librarians, paralegals, etc. Eventually these positions started to require higher credentials. Law librarians got hit the hardest -- it used to be common to do that job with HS degree or an associates degree, then it required college, and now its not uncommon to find people in those roles with both library science (masters level) AND law degrees. The return on investment there sucks, but I still see firms looking for those credentials, and they find them because there are enough unhappy JDs out there that some decent number will go get an MLS in order to move into a pretty secure job that actually uses their law degree and is reasonably mentally engaging.

My husband is an engineer and a generation ago, none of their draftsmen had college degrees. Now they are phasing out that role altogether and everyone they hire has a bachelors and usually also a professional engineers license.

Even in fields like retail, it used to be common to get managerial jobs without higher ed, it's become much more rare.[/quote]

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