I know what you mean about degrees, but having a degree does open value to some companies because they want you to have a college degree to enter their company. But also I agree with you about skills, a lot of people have a degree but no job skills, therefore, they won’t get hired. Similarly, people with great skills and no college degrees also don’t get hired or can’t move up in the company, so it can go one of both ways.
As your comment on trucking, it’s true that I won’t know “everything” about trucking but that’s why I’m willing to take the risk and find out myself. And also your comment on “rude awakening” that goes for every career. Even if your a medical doctor, nurse, lawyer, plumber, electrician, you may think you know how to do everything correctly on your career BUT there’s also more to learn and a lot of mistakes made and even new problems that come up that you don’t know how to solve.
Persuing Trucking after college, have you done it?
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I am a college graduate with a degree in education. I went out and got my CDL because it gives me more options in terms of work. I've got a college degree and a CDL. I'll always be able to find somewhere to work. Having both is totally beneficial....I just really like long haul trucking though. To the public it may not be the sexiest job, but why does the public matter?
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Graduated from a 4 year university program intent on going to law school afterwards.
Took some time off to work, and eventually realized that I would never be able to save enough money while paying living expenses on an entry level salary. Changed jobs a few times, but this inevitably proved to be the case.
Decided I would go trucking, as the $6000 tuition for trucking school was both more affordable and offered a much better return than any other trade school training.
It’s a decade later and I earn more driving a truck as I would working as a prosecutor or a young lawyer. I’ve basically given up on going back to school to take a lower paying job - I don’t need to spend $50k to do that. -
Going into secondary education for a career degree has some merit. Have a BS in engineering.
Was it worth the time, yes. Is it of any value, yes.
Even started working on masters.
In the engineering fields, a number of problems exist. One is people tend to get pigeonholed to a specific area. It it hard to move across disciplines. Second is age. With time your wisdom becomes expensive. No company wants to pay for that. Cheaper to hire the fresh grad, hungry with bills to pay.
So back to trucking, make about the same income, has different BS, but less of it. No corporate politics.spyder7723 Thanks this. -
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