College Education

July 24, 2008 – 8:52 am – No Comment

I hate college. As a 5th year senior, I am the product of too many students and too few professors. I would have graduated in 4 years if not for the problems with my university. That aside…I have realized something. After reading into it, I am not going to make the money I wanted to make when I graduate. There are too many people in my field, not enough jobs, and the market is slipping. I’m a marketing communications major…I know what the markets are doing. I communicate with them (not really, but that IS what it sounds like).

I am not the only person with this problem. There are plenty of new grads out there hopelessly looking for professional entry level work, who just aren’t finding it. We’re told when you graduate high school, the next step is OBVIOUSLY college, but does it have to be?

People are getting laid off, unemployment is up and student loans are needing to be paid. This is why you’ll find new grads working as delivery drivers for your local Domino’s. They can’t find work anywhere else.

Perhaps its time to give high school students time to really think about what they want to do with their lives rather than sending them blindly into college. Not everyone knows what they want to be when they grow up.