(03-20-2019, 08:37 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(03-20-2019, 08:15 AM)Inziladun Wrote: I'll bite. In my job field, IT degrees are by and large completely unimportant. This pretty much spans across the entirety of the Computer science field. Mostly it just matters what your experience is. A degree definitely helps getting your foot in the door somewhere, but there's plenty of guys I've worked with that havent had degrees. Personally i could've started my career 5 years sooner with 0 degree, but didn't utilise my connection like a dummy. But I've known guys that have gotten jobs just from creating a little portfolio for themselves over the course of a couple months(made themselves a website, did a little project, ect.)

I guess the answer to your question is: most fields that are desperate for people. You could even be an airline pilot with no college education if you wanted to. Of course nothing is stopping you from making your own business. Online business are increasingly easy to run these days, the trick is finding a niche and scaling the business. There's tons of options available. I think a large problem is that society by and large places a large emphasis on college education. Schools are laughing their way to the bank from all the hype, meanwhile degrees become more and more worthless. I personally wouldn't recommend anyone get a degree if they were walking away with debt because of it.

Just looking through some of the best paying jobs available and there wasn't a single one that didn't require a minimum of a college education. I'm not saying that I agree with it but it just seems to be the way it is now.

Creating your own business sounds find and dandy but how long until you can actually make a profit with said business? 1 year? 2 years? 3 years? How will you make a living when your business isn't turning a profit?

Based on my Google search it seems like the "highest paying jobs" are just a bunch of specialized medical doctors, a quarter of which will be replaced by robots in a few decades. So I'm not sure how to respond. There's plenty of jobs that pay six figures with no college education required. Sure you may not make as much as a surgeon, but driving a new Bentley every year is overrated. 

I mean it depends. Personally I started turning a profit in my business by the end of the first month. My problem was scaling it. But it generates an extra 2-4 thousand dollars a month for me and most of it is automated and I have 0 employees. I'm not saying it's for everyone and you'd need to find your own little market niche, but I honestly feel like there's plenty of options to make a decent living for someone without a degree, you just need to be motivated. Same thing as if you had a degree. A lot of graduates walk out of college and are expecting to be handed a job. Those that are motivated get rewarded over those that are not, degree or not.

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