CDL Theory question

I have a BS in Mathematics with minors in Computer Science and History. I worked as a computer programmer for 9 years in the late 70s, including a year (indirectly) for NASA (contracted to Jet Propulsion Lab at Johnson Space Center in Houston). My skills are probably out of date now though. But at this point, I would be content drowning worms

 

I say get a 2 yr. degree based on past advice, that I never took. I quit high school and went to work at 15. I was very impatient and wanted to make money. I learned a lot in the workforce. But that means nothing to an employer. They don’t care what you know. Only want you to do your job. Basically a degree shows you can stick with something till it’s accomplished. Makes sense to me. From an employers standpoint especially.

 

Have a BS in Engineering. I drive truck, make almost the same money and have less headaches. Fortunately never took on any debt to get the degree. Actually did use it for a while.

 

I got Bachelor's & 2 Associates. I worked for only 2 years in my field and that job required neither of those degrees, just a technical license. The degree is largely irrelevant. It's the job that matters. If that job REQUIRES a degree, get the degree, otherwise you are wasting time and money. Adding a useless degree doesn't give you more skills unless you pick the right job/area. Would dropping a Bachelor's degree on a car mechanic or waitress make them better at their job? Would getting a degree in Cinema Criticism give you a good job. Degrees are used by the people that don't have them as an excuse for why they didn't become more successful. The degrees are used by people with them for why the became successful. They seldom add any marketable skill for 90% of graduates.

People that take vitamins & graduate college live longer. The vitamins & the degree do not make them live longer. It's the habits and behaviour of vitamin & degree consumers that produce the results. If you forced every kid to take vitamins & graduate college their lifespan would not change. Consuming vitamins or graduating college are the symptoms of other behaviors & values, not the cause of longer lifespans anymore than living in a larger or more expensive house makes you wealthier. Cause and correlation are not the same thing.

 

Well, a sociology degree could dramatically increase a waitresses tips

 

Many years ago I worked for a place that required a degree for any position of lead. Meaning team lead, supervisor and up. It was the biggest #### show I ever saw. The next summer I worked for a different place doing the same thing. They didn't require a degree and most of the leadership worked thier way up. The second place ran like clock work, when an issue did arise the leadership team was able to sort it in quick order.
My take from it was the degree was worthless for anything more than a decoration on the wall. Unless you are going into a field that really needs it and the years I spent off the road in the office working with some that had them and some that didn't confirmed it. Those without had answers, solutions, innovative Ideas that didn't hinder everything else. Thier Ideas didn't create an unnecessary burden or workload to be effective, they simply worked unlike the 1000 pages of paperwork that got added with 2000 new steps to a process the college grad came up with.

 

Thats the way it was in the computer field also. The more educated the worse it was in a lot of cases. I started programming in 8th grade. Which doesnt sound like much now a days, but that was 1970 - - - 5 years BEFORE Microsoft was founded. Only reason I bothered to get a degree was the VA was paying me to go to school.

They paid me to go to CDL school also

 

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