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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.

[b]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. [/b]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]

You could solve the bolded with affordable public colleges. There's no reason state schools need to cost what they do now: they cost a tiny fraction of it 20 years ago.

If someone actually wants to go into the trades that's great, but the world doesn't need 100,000 plumbers and electricians any more than it needs 100,000 pre-law students with undergrad debt. The only solution to college debt is affordable college. [/quote]

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