In America, it is hard to find a job
that does not require some kind of higher education besides flipping burgers at
McDonalds. I am not discouraging the fast food industry because someone has to
do it, but there is little money for restaurant workers. Prices for everything
have sky-rocketed, and to be able to do anything in life a person needs a
better job than at a minimum wage fast food restaurant. There are other jobs
out there, like a mechanic, which do not require the employee to attend college
but have on the job training in the field. These types of jobs require hard
work with little pay. To make any kind of money to support your family, society
has told us that we are required to go to college now instead of it being a
privilege to attend as it used to be. People can make a good honest living
working a blue collar job, but it is the white collar jobs like doctors and
lawyers where the real money is. Also society says that if student do not go to
Ivy League schools or some other prestigious schools, then their training and
education is not as good as those who did attend prestigious schools. If students don’t have full ride scholarships t
or don’t have a wealthy family, then this puts the already broke college
students in debt and makes them look for a job right after graduation without
the guarantee that they will find a job in their field of study. Today even
secretaries and librarians have to have some kind of training in their field,
and they don’t get paid much at all.
To
be even looked at as a potential candidate for my career, I am required to
attend a four-year college and earn more than one degree. For example, a
science teacher has to major in science and major in education. Teachers have
to pass three tests on top of a degree in their field before they are allowed
to have their own classroom. Teachers don’t have to go to school as long as a
doctors or lawyers do, but the training to have their own classroom is still
just as rough on them. Without all the required prerequisites for my license to
teach, I would not be able to get a job in the classroom. Because of the way we
think today, I have to be credentialed.
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