I was always told that a college degree shows that you can start something and finish it. Doesn't make you smart. Doesn't make you intelligent just educates the individual. In my 30 years in the workforce I can't count the number of educated idiots I have worked with and for. I wish I had a degree just to have it but it would not have helped me at all in my previous career.

I was interviewing with a company and I ask what was so desirable about a degree. I was told the standard sticking with something and completing it. I ask if having the same job for 25 years and being married to the same woman for 30 years would qualify. He said that I have an excellent point.

My dad (not an educated man but a wise man) always gave me this advice "Boy, if you're offered a pound of brains or an ounce of common sense, take the common sense."

In no way am I dissing those with a degree. I wish I had one. It's a companies right to require it but I just wish they would give weight to other factors also.

If the desire is to get those that are 22 years and older, just make that a requirement