The PhD problem: are we giving out too many degrees?

[RACER X]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Yup, sure has. I turned down a machinist apprenticeship, straight out of college, because I was by damn going to use my diploma. Unfortunately we still need carpenters, plumbers, electricians, garbage men, general labourers, ...... There's a good living to be made in such areas; likely better than at some helpdesk, that's going to be outsourced anyway.

So is that what you want to instil in your kids to be when they grow up,a general laborer?

College degreed people still make more on avg then h.s. Degreed people