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To: LindyBill who wrote (179981)	9/21/2006 10:52:32 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794006

I'll bet a lot of retail clerk jobs are requiring a BA degree now. It's not a guarantee of a good job anymore than a HS diploma was 20 years ago but it is a prerequisite.

To: LindyBill who wrote (179981)	9/21/2006 11:32:50 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794006

Sorry. I have interviewed too many kids who had no business going to college but went anyway, got a Psych degree, or something similar, and are now working as retail clerks. Sure, but if they hadn't had a BA degree, would they even have been able to get in to be interviewed by you?

To: LindyBill who wrote (179981)	9/21/2006 11:34:08 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794006

got a Psych degree, or something similar, and are now working as retail clerks. Choice of major was their decision. A degree in English, Psych, Sociology, etc. won't give you much of a leg up in the business world. If the kid in your example was interested in enhancing job prospects, he/she might have considered a different major.

To: LindyBill who wrote (179981)	9/21/2006 11:58:58 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 794006

I don't discount education's value, but I gotta say the most successful people in my life do not have much more than highschool. Two of the very most successful, my father and my buddy's father, did not even get high school diplomas. My buddy's father didn't even go to day one in high school. Now he has an honorary PhD, has written extensively and published a mainstream book. amazon.com In my immediate family of four there are three college degrees, and the most financially successful of us does not have one. He makes more than the other three put together. If our educational system does not instill a love of learning, which is the hallmark of my successful examples, then it is a failure. What I see too often is our institutions trying to instill a particular point of view. All too often that point of view is self-defeating or otherwise repugnant. By the way, I do not equate financial success with real success. It is simply one form of it.