Is A College Degree The New High School Diploma?

Back in the good old days it used to be where one could graduate high school, blow off a year or two having fun and getting a little work under the belt before going off to college to get really serious about life and go after a great career. Afterward, you get an awesome job doing something that you absolutely love, make life long friends who share your same passion as you get paid above and beyond all expectations then look forward to an active retirement with your mate after the kids go off to college to repeat the same delicious cycle. It all sounded so easy back then didnt it? Well fast forward to the year 2013 and for most to hear of a life plan such as that to most these days sounds literally insane! Now we know that life happens to all of us in so many different unexpected ways and no ones story ever goes as perfect as desired. We have sicknesses that we didnt anticipate, pregnancies, death, changes of heart, poverty, unemployment, divorce as well as insanity. May I continue? Thought not, because I believe you get the picture. But in the present day that world that I just described seems to be something off of a movie but definitely not reality! Today? You can have multiple degrees and still feel as though your life plan is a gamble. The job market is lean and whatever may be left up for grabs is shifting and morphing into something else. Many who were at the top of their graduating class are forced because of high student loan debt to take a menial entry level position just to make ends meet. After several years of this type of very frustrated and esteem sapping existence, many have accepted that this is as high on the job later as they will go and that the degree that used to hang proudly on their walls is just a twisted mockery of all of the effort that they put into an educational hustle of their diminishing dreams. What happened?

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