09/29/13, 12:44 PM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
Posts: 5,869
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Originally Posted by hippygirl
A college education is great and "can" be the bedrock upon which one's financial success is built...as long as the chosen area of study builds skills which are in high demand.
My youngest brother spent four years in college, graduated magna cum laude (missed summa by less than one point), and received a degree in History. After looking far and wide for a job where he could put his degree to good use ("any" use is more like it!), he finally ended up on the line at a snack factory. He likes the work, but he feels all those years and $$$ spent were for nothing...I feel, in "his" case, he is correct.
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I attend a local Permaculture group's potlucks each month. The group is mostly grad students, with degrees in soc, history, psy, etc. None of these grad-students could find jobs in their degree fields, so they are back at University on grants to study permaculture. Talking about and 'designing' homesteads.
At the same university, is offered a 'Sustainable Ag' major [How to Homestead]. At these potlucks I meet under-grad students in this major who are learning to farm using campus resources. In some cases, they 'drop-out' because they find opportunities to start a new farm. Just this past year, I know two of these who were 'Sustainable Ag' students, who apprenticed on farms over the summer, and decided to stay in farming. Rather than go back to school and accumulate more student-loan debt learning about farming.
A perfect example of some going to college in degree fields with very little practical value, as compared to others whose fields are of great value.
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