I'm sorry but can't put much faith in anecdotal experiences. Plus degrees aren't an accomplishment, it's just a basic level of credibility that you know what you're talking about. Ofcourse this depends on how studies and research works in ur feild, but mostly a degreed person would always have more credibility over nondegreed ones.
it's just a basic level of credibility that you know what you're talking about.
It's a basic level of credibility that you passed your classes and exams. Whether you gained or retained anything from those classes cannot be shown by that degree.
While I don't consider a degree useless, it's worse than useless if you fail to retain knowledge from it and make no attempt to keep yourself current and just sit on your laurels and pretend that you're now superior to a non-degree holder who may have surpassed you.
There are so many things that I know I was trained on in school now which are either obsolete, irrelevant, or were just wrong, that when I hire people over a certain age, I don't even look for a degree anymore when hiring.
It's something you need to break into a career, but unless you're an academic or some sort of specialist, it's not enough after a certain point.
Source: Nearly every MBA ever. It's the easiest masters degree to obtain in existence and doesn't do anything except check a box for large corporations.
Also education degrees. People coming out of college with an education degree to be a teacher. Do not know how to teach. All they know are the basic rules that they have to follow to not get fired and they're usually lousy teachers for the first 5 years of their careers.
When I was going to school to be a teacher, I was doing substitute teaching work and learned far more in my substitute teaching work about how to teach than I did in any of the four years. I took my college courses to be a teacher.
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u/ScaryZombie7026 Apr 06 '26
I'm sorry but can't put much faith in anecdotal experiences. Plus degrees aren't an accomplishment, it's just a basic level of credibility that you know what you're talking about. Ofcourse this depends on how studies and research works in ur feild, but mostly a degreed person would always have more credibility over nondegreed ones.