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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't care where my kids go to college as long as, at the end of the day, they can afford to raise their kids the way they were raised. [/quote]

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Many jobs are doing away with the stamp of college as a requirement.  Hopefully, we'll go back to apprenticeships.  Most of what is needed for any job is learned on the job.  I have a PhD in STEM and I used maybe 10% of what I learned my first 5 years, everything else was learned on the job. Now 18 years in I draw on my experiences and business relationships,  not anything from my education.

As long as my kids can maintain their lifestyle AND, more importantly, get off my books, why do I care about an arbitrary piece of paper?[/quote]

You are so right. I went to the dr yesterday and I was like bring the orderly. I don’t need your MD high fallutin’ ways. [/quote]

I heard something like this on NPR last week...but I couldn't find the article.  I found this though. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1043737586/college-degree-high-school-diploma-high-paying-trade-jobs

I don't think the PP was saying all job will go to a degree optional.  I think the point is many high paying fields, like programming are not requiring them like they used to.  Now they are moving to a competence based model.  My highschooler is a very skilled python programmer and contracts her skills to make some extra money.  This is very valuable experience that may land her a great job later.  She's even built some video games for fun and sold them.[/quote]

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