The Truth About College Degrees - Honest Ads

College is going to be one of the biggest investments of your life, which is why you should just trust what the unviersities tell you without even thinking twice about how much you could be screwed after school has ended.

[justingraves]

Normies: My degree didn't secure me a career.

Rich kid: Well, my parents secured mine at their company.

[LKH]

Now add up the average cost of a house, a wedding party, a car, etc... and you'll realize that millionaires are the new "middle class"

[Juice]

One of the few benefits from growing up in the hood is that as long as you’re not in jail, you can’t let your parents down lol

[davidknightx]

As a gas station attendant who graduated college with a 3.89 GPA for a computer science degree....ouch.

[remingtonspeed]

I literally only got my degree to get a promotion at a job I already had.

[PessimistPirate]

This channel creatively tells me all the ways society lies to me, and I love it for that.

[The_EB_Consortium_Arc]

I loved how Roger implied when calculating tuition costs that Horton University is just an average school.

[PlebNC]

Fun fact: In the UK, if you don't earn enough after university you don't have to start paying off your student loan. And once you reach retirement age your debt is wiped out anyway.
This encourages universities to create courses that are actually useful although the retirement age keeps getting pushed back.

[isabellelivingston]

I work at a gas station. Can confirm the only thing preventing me from drinking the sour water at the pumps is my manager yelling at me every day

[lukecwolf]

My friend described college this way in an op-ed. "We're making the most in-experienced adults make probably the second largest investment in their life by signing them up for college."

She was a professor who wrote this right as the pandemic hit. She encouraged every kid to take a gap year to figure their lives.

Neither of us are saying don't go to college or it's a scam, but i just hate how everyone pushes college: magazines, career counselors, tv. Especially not after recession college prices.

[batman]

As a college dropout, if I could go back in time, I would have skipped college altogether. I would still be poor, but at least I wouldn’t have any debt. For those of my generation, it was difficult to choose a different path when all you heard from your parents and teachers was how college was the key to financial stability. We were never given alternative options. If you chose not to go, you were perceived as a failure. I’m not saying don’t go to college, but you shouldn’t go unless you know exactly what you want to do.

[adaminfinity]

Plumbers, Electrictrians, HVAC technicians, IT support jobs, welders, janitors, landscapers, machinacs, etc don't require college degrees and they make about the same as college grads do.

[PlebNC]

Pro tip: if your ideal job requires a portfolio of your work, don't bother with a degree and focus on the portfolio instead.
Everything the collage will teach you is either found online or in a textbook you don't need student debt to be able to buy and the college will spend most of its time bogging you down with classes and coursework so you don't have time to make a portfolio.
A degree looks pretty on the CV/resume but employers only care if you can do the job and nothing says that better than a portfolio or showreel.

[artsyanne]

I’m a Gen Xer and growing up, I was always told that if I didn’t go to college, I would never get a good job. Well, I’ve been to college 3 different times (for 3 different majors because I was young and didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life). One Associates degree, one Bachelors degree and one certification later, I still ended up with a low paying job that only requires a high school diploma because I couldn’t find a job in any of the fields I studied for. I definitely advise aspiring college students to get clarity on exactly what career they want before going to college and racking up all that student loan debt. Otherwise you’re wasting time and money.

[fjufjufjfjf]

You forgot about the parking pass fees.

[jdzspace]

The trick is to go to a community college and transfer to a 4 year. That's what I did, ended up with only 10K in debt at 2.5% interest and my bachelor's degree and a killer government job with an awesome work/ life balance and decent money to start.

It's really all about what degree you get, and the network you build while you're in school.

Do it right and it'll serve you well, do it wrong and... well

[wesleyk]

Watching this instead of studying for my pharmacy degree

[custos]

2 degrees, zero liveable job prospects, and grad school in my field addicted to bureaucracy and pageantry despite the harm it does to the populations we once were expected to help, this hit like a truck.

[havocsquad]

About time Honest Ads did a video for college tuition. Long overdue.

[soulburner]

Going to graduate in a few months and I feel this.
Different levels of fucked.