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by MilnerRoute - As an american with a degree and years of experience and even a PhD, it is hard to move jobs.by Nail2680
- The real story is about lifetime earnings and related outcomes in pension/Roth/401k and in health benefits.
Not that there's nothing here: Degree is over-valued as a life goal in a time where we no longer really value tertiary education the way we should, and charge the kind of for-profit costs (and loan tail) to get one.
Many non-degree career paths incur significant OHS risk and limits to your work life as a fit adult. Some degree paths to too: Physiotherapists cannot go on doing that kind of body-manipulation work forever without an effect on themselves, but if you plot lifetime earnings in medical against construction labour, it gets complicated fast.
by ggm - Seems like a good recipe for a long form post.by nothercastle
- > Degree is over-valued as a life goal in a time where we no longer really value tertiary education the way we should
What does “the way that we should” mean here? Are you disagreeing with the free market valuation of a good? If not the equilibrium created by supply and demand, what do you propose instead?
- > Physiotherapists cannot go on doing that kind of body-manipulation work forever without an effect on themselves
Physiotherapists don't usually manipulate patients, you're probably thinking of chiropractors. Even then, the amount of physical strain the manipulation puts on their body is minimal and can be adapted to.
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