Quote from zedDoubleNaught:
How many people do you know who have a job somehow related to their college degree, especially years afterward? Most people I know don't. I read one stat that said the average person changes their career 5-9 times throughout their life. This would imply the point of the degree is not necessarily to train for a specific job, but teach how to learn new things. If they're lucky enough to get a job related to the degree they love, that's great. And, hopefully, they have developed the skill and discipline from the 4-year degree to study and learn something new if they get tired of it or the pay 10 years down the road, or the economy reduces that field. I suppose it would be worse to get a high-paying, degree-related job right of school, one would think one was locked to that job or career and may not feel comfortable trying new things.
