correctiveshoes621

There is so much I wanna say in response to this post, but other people said a lot of it as well as I could. For some reason your college fixation hits a nerve with me in that it reminds me of Michelle the Evil Medical Records Clerk ™ and the way she used to give me shit about having gone to college, like it should make me perfect or something. I think maybe people who haven't been to college imagine it as more than it is. Unless you go to a prestigious university, all it means is that you (or someone helping, if you're lucky) are paying for more years of school stuff to get a degree and be considered 'more hireable' or something. In a 4 year school the first 2 years are usually just more basic classes that have nothing to do with the field you want to major in. I walked away from college with a degree, a license and complete ignorance about the real world. The most valuable things I learned were once I was out in the field and DOING, not in the classroom. In fact, as I look back now, I can't think of too many things that college gave me a big leg up on. It just opens doors, jobwise.

Also? My husband has no college degree...and he makes the same amount as I do, with a college degree and almost 20 years experience. So I ask you, where is the justice in that?

Furthermore, no college-educated man worth talking to would snub someone because they hadn't gone to college. If they did...they weren't worth talking to in the first place because that would make them SHALLOW. There are brilliant people everywhere who never went to college. Some who never got past 8th grade! It ain't everything.

But I won't pretend it's not important to you, because it obviously is. A college degree might've offered you better career opportunities...but it wouldn't have made you a lick smarter than you are right now. *Hand up to God*

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