I went to college intending to make my career in the banking industry. Since I graduated, I’ve worked in manufacturing and now healthcare. While it’s good to have a goal, it’s hard to know where life will take you!

Luckily, I have an MBA so I have flexibility to work in various industries and positions.

I have a social work master’s and a license. An MSW is not required for many social services jobs, but those of us with them seem to know better what we’re doing. Of course, an advanced degree is a bit different than a bachelor’s degree.

Usually when a school gets upset, it’s because some annoying parent made a big deal out of something.

Thanks. I will admit that I missed the word “plenty”. My error.

Copied directly from the article.

“there are plenty of careers that have similar requirements. If you want to be a lawyer, you need to go to law school”

Getting a college education in the U.S. without loans is not impossible, it just takes hard work. I took out a grand total of $600 in student loans because I was required to take it my first freshman semester. I worked all through college and held multiple jobs in the summers, paying all my tuition as I went without any help. Because of this I probably didn’t do as well as I could and will have to live with a cum laude degree for the rest of my life.

PS. As I said before for most of the jobs in the Social Sciences fields a specific degree is not needed. However, in the hard sciences often a specific degree is needed. There are of course exceptions on both sides going both ways.

I fully agree with the 12 year old comment. However, there are a number of people who do believe that any degree will work for any job and that is not true.