My Useless Degree

When you were a kid, did your parents always say "you can do whatever you want?" When you brought up career options, did everyone say you would make more money by going to college first?

Did your rarely see a professor when you attended class? Was your career counselor worthless? Did you graduate with a useless degree? 

Even worse, did you educate yourself into a corner at an overpriced graduate school?

Are you sick of analysts saying those internships and interpersonal skills actually matter while you walk around like the most socially-adjusted unemployed kid on the planet?

Are you drowning in school loans? Do you dream about a government college debt bailout and consumer protection rights for students? Does it alarm you that college loans outweigh credit card debt in the United States?

Do you still live at home with your confused parents? Does it feel as if you are serving a life sentence of indentured servanthood to dead end jobs meant for people who just got out of prison or can't speak your first language? When you get that tiny paycheck do you sit in your car wondering how you are going to make it for another two weeks? Do you wake up every morning just a little more terrified you'll be unable to find a job in your field?



Tell us the story about the time you went to college and discovered it was a giant waste of time.