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Have you ever tried to look for a job in the paper and how many jobs you now need a college dipolma for? It seems like everything you do needs to have some sort of college degree. I often wondered since having kids if, college is really for me or just because my husband and I make enough money to have a good life should I even bother. After reading the article there are more good jobs then expected and reasoning behind why people do not go to school. When growing up in my house hold my parents never really talked about college. My father was a plant manager and never went to college but was over seeing about 1,000 people. He did so well they decided to have him be in charge of moving to different automobile plants and bring their productivity up also. Do you think if businesses went back to the days where you didn't need college as much but on the job training would the world be as well off as it is now? It is nice to know that there are still some jobs that are willling to do on the job training because college is not for everyone.

Response by Lauren Root

I think the reason a lot of people go to college is so they can make a lot of money and not work very hard. A lot of jobs you can get right out of high school will have you working really hard for the rest of your life. While after going to college you’re getting paid more to use your brain than anything else. Also, most of the jobs that don’t require a college degree would be hard to get in this economy because people with bachelor’s degrees are moving out of state just to find a job, or not finding one at all. I have a friend who recently got his masters in environmental engineering and had to move to Tennessee to find a job. I think these days you need to go to college to be well off, like my boss didn’t even graduate high school and he makes 200,000 a year, but he is also 50 years old and the world was a different place back then.