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Originally Posted by DarknessIsMyFriend
What's the point in even spending four years of college to get a degree? A Bachelors holds less value now than it ever did. There are too many people attending college and getting degrees so why get one too? You're not distinguishing yourself at all.
Unless you want a Master's or Doctorate's or you are fortunate enough to get into a top end university like Harvard or Stanford, I don't see a point of going out of your way to get a Bachelors unless you really like college.
There are many fields that don't require a Bachelors to get into and there is also the option of going to a trade school and focus on getting the knowledge you need to work in a particular field without the stuff you don't. Furthermore, for the self starters, freelance work and entrepreneurial opportunities on the internet are more abundant than they ever were before.
Why bother with a Bachelors? Why make life needlessly complicated?
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It really comes down to what you want to do. A Bachelor's isn't worth much by itself, but it's becoming a prerequisite for a lot of jobs in N.America, even ones that didn't use to require them just because there's a huge surge of people with degrees looking for jobs nowadays. Coding used to be a prove your skill and worth kind of job, but since anyone applying for a dev job can do that nowadays, employers tend to look for those with education on top of the skill set.
I didn't ever finish my business degree before getting into entrepreneurship. I've worked for a few of the bigger startups in Canada, as well as a few smaller ones and eventually co-founded my own. Definitely didn't need a degree to do that, but it wouldn't have hurt either. I didn't get a few jobs that I would have otherwise gotten with a degree, and lost a few networking opportunities for alumni only.
It's definitely worth getting a Bachelor's nowadays because it does make employment easier, but that is also highly based on what you're interested in doing. If you're more interested in anything that's outside of academia, sciences and the professional/corporate world, your time and money can definitely be better spent elsewhere. However, if your interest does lay in one of those, then it's definitely to your advantage to finish your degree.
I think the biggest problem is that people are often fed the idea that they need to get a degree first and then figure out what they want to do, instead of vice versa.