I didn’t kill myself because I had only a high school graduation because I was working to live. Nobody took care of me after I was 17 years of age. Ed k
What year was that?
We've had massive credential inflation over the last 30 years or so. A high school diploma is probably roughly of equivalent value to being an eighth grade dropout when I graduated in 1986. A high school diploma will hardly get you a job at starbucks any more and I'll bet if you quizzed most baristas they're college grads. If you want to get into the middle class right out of college you've pretty much got to have a master's. What does it cost to get that college degree now? When I was in college in the late '80's tuition was $800 a semester at my state school, I recently looked it up and it's now $7600 a semester.
I'm glad I'm not trying to enter the workforce out of high school now, 30 years of shipping jobs to China and importing H1B visas have taken their toll.
