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Cleita

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5. I once applied for an accounting job, and this was twenty five years ago, that I was qualified

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed Mar 27, 2013, 03:17 PM

Mar 2013

for and had twenty years experience in doing, and was told I needed a degree. When I mentioned my years of practical experience with verifiable references if they wanted to double check, I was told that everyone, including the personnel on the loading docks had to have a degree. I guess what I thought was a quirky company at the time has become a mainstream trend.

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Why A BA Is Now A Ticket To A Job In A Coffee Shop [View all] Purveyor Mar 2013 OP

How can this be? Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #1

LOL limpyhobbler Mar 2013 #3

Never pay lots of money for something unless it has value. Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2013 #2

Education has value far beyond its economic return. Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #4

This is why I'm in favor of free education through graduate school for Cleita Mar 2013 #6

The college education is reverting to what it was before the Depression-- Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #11

I personally think we should be levying an education tax on all the big corporations Cleita Mar 2013 #13

My daughter was working in the graphic arts department RebelOne Mar 2013 #14

That's wonderful. I'm always happy to see a deserving student Cleita Mar 2013 #15

Love is free. Everything else costs. Nuclear Unicorn Mar 2013 #7

I once applied for an accounting job, and this was twenty five years ago, that I was qualified Cleita Mar 2013 #5

It's been that way as long as I can remember. Even an advanced degree does not guarantee... slackmaster Mar 2013 #8

Which is why my kids are pursuing Bachelor of Science degrees hack89 Mar 2013 #9

With the way the government is pushing STEM degrees, it's only a matter of time pnwmom Mar 2013 #10

Depends upon what the BA is in. Most Engineering BAs have job offers. nt bluestate10 Mar 2013 #12