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Originally Posted by pbradley
I went to college in order to learn, not in order to get a degree. With that in mind, I have satisfied my goal. Was it worth the money? Can you put a dollar sign on pure education? Still, I'm satisfied and I feel that it has made me a far more intelligent person than before I attended. However, my future career path is just as uncertain as before I attended. I have no delusions about that, again that is not why I attended.
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The problem (and I'll say this as someone else who did the world's most useless bachelors) is that a lot of people take that learning and forget it in a year. Personally, I don't regret my (largely worthless degree). I have a burgeoning career elsewise, and I worked in offices throughout my degree, so I've got a fairly good CV (certainly better than it would be if I'd stayed in a call centre and wait to climb the ladder). Ultimately I'm going to go back and do another ostensibly pointless degree next year, and following that I hope to do a massively pretentious PhD - at the end of the day though, I'm happy enough (at whatever age I am) to say that this is something I personally want to do. Hopefully, it'll lead to a prosperous/ lucrative career, but if not, c'est la vie.
There's a strong impetus on people doing it when they're young, and there shouldn't be. I think if you want to learn, it's going to be the same desire when you're 35 as much as it is when you're 18. I have good friends tickling 40 who've done degrees. It's a bit difficult (with the jobs/ mortgages/ kids) but significantly easier than raising kids (I imagine). I was lucky enough that, in amoungst the workshy gobshites at my Uni there was a few older students, all of whom had absolutely no problems with drinking
and handing essays in on time.