Originally Posted by
TheDashRocks
I would like to keep the option of going to a major airline open. Therefore I will have to get busy and earn a degree. I will spend about 2000 hours on the effort. I will try to get the most I can out of the experience. Education is never a waste. I can think of many subjects that I would love to earn a degree in, just for the joy of it. However I do not have unlimited time or resources. I choose to spend time and money on a degree because I feel that it is necessary to further my career. Would I pay $500 for an accredited degree based on life experience and spend 2000 hours on something else? You bet!
Not everyone holding a degree worked his or her way through college by the sweat of their brow. There are plenty of George W. Bushes that got into great schools because of Daddy's name and money, then drank and snorted their way to a degree while majoring in lap dance appreciation.
The Dash Whisperer
When you do graduate from college would you embrace a guy sitting next to you in an interview at a major with his $500 "education" as a colleague or scum? He thinks an education is useless and a waste of precious time.
College is not just the classroom work that makes it beneficial and that fact is lost on many people. Every college grad had to take a couple of useless courses but trying to label the whole higher education experience as a waste of time is ridiculous.
Just the fact that you dealt with the bureaucracy and the complete non-sense that is college administration, scheduling, and meeting course requirements is a badge of honor. College in its simplest form tests your ability to accomplish a goal.