大學教育純屬浪費錢財的10大原因(下)

e are plenty of good jobs that do not require a college degree

3.有很多好工作並不需要大學學位

If the work situation is so bad for graduates (see point 4 above) it is tempting to think that things would be even worse for those who fail to go to college and make the same investment in themselves and their education as their peers.

既然就業情況對於大學畢業生都如此糟糕（如上節所述），我們就很容易聯想到那些沒能上大學的人。他們沒有像同齡人那樣，在自己的外在和教育上投入更多的金錢。

After all if you now need a college degree to be a waitress what don't you need it for!

但最終不還是爲了那些並不需要大學學位的服務生崗位到處奔波，與有大學學位的人競爭嗎？

But this is, thankfully, not the case. There is an awful lot you can do to make a success of your life without going anywhere near college and long term debt that it brings.

但是幸好，這不是什麼大問題。你能夠幹出一番事業的事情太太太多了，完全不必到什麼大學去承擔四年的待業風險。

Many careers offer good wages combined with the opportunity for excellent career progression.

很多專職行業也是既提供高薪又能保證前途。

For decades the United States has fallen behind European countries such as Germany in the attention paid to vocational training and courses.

數十年以來，美國在對職業教育的重視程度上遠遠落後於一些歐洲國家，比如德國。

In many European countries college is not seen as the be all and end all – many students are encouraged to work towards apprenticeships in their chosen careers instead.

在很多歐洲國家，上大學在人們眼中並不意味着得到了一切，也並非一切學習的結束。很多學生受鼓勵在他們所選擇的行業中先做學徒的工作。

These apprenticeships are highly sought after and those who work in them gain valuable qualifications while earning good money.

這些見習機會受到年輕人廣泛的歡迎，而且有這些機會的人不僅薪水豐厚，還能取得高含金量的職業資格認證。

Apprenticeship programs are not as popular in the US but some do exist and, if they are available in your area are a good alternative.

見習項目在美國雖未廣泛流行，但它確實存在。如果你周圍有比較方便的見習機會，那會是代替上大學的一個超棒選擇。

Alternatively, if you are that way inclined joining the military can prove a valuable career choice.

另外，入伍也是一個很有價值的職業選擇。

Specialists are often highly trained at the nation's expense and veterans are often very much sought after by civilian companies.

在美國，陸軍中的專業人員經常能在國家經費支持下得到很好的訓練與提升。此外，退伍軍人還通常會受到民營企業的青睞。

the hard degrees pay off long term

2.難以獲得的學位才長期有價值

We do not deny that there are some jobs for which you need a college degree. In fact for many of them you might need several.

不可否認，有些工作確實需要你提供大學學位證書，但那些工作還會需要其他一系列的證書。

You are not going to be a high flying lawyer or an excellent doctor without one nor are your chances of getting far in experimental research chemistry good unless you have the degree to back it up.

除非你有學歷保障，否則你在沒有機會進行深入科學研究的情況下，不可能成爲一名好的律師或者醫生。

Even then it is probably only worth investing in these hard degrees at a top flight school.

如果你非要考難度大的學位，那也只有頂尖學府的學位才值得你付出努力了。

With all the graduate competition out there a degree from Hicksville University, Hickstate is probably not going to get you very far (except into debt).

因爲現在畢業生的就業競爭這麼激烈，如果你畢業於美國希克斯維爾大學，在那種不入流的地方你不可能有什麼出路（除非借錢出去闖一闖）。

The figures are striking, mid-career an average engineering graduate from MIT can expect to earn about $126,000 a year compared to $73,000 if she went to Florida State and just under $44,000 if he went to Black Hills State.

統計數據十分驚人：畢業於麻省理工大學的普通工程師年薪可達126000美元；畢業於佛羅里達州立大學，相比之下年薪就遜色不少，只有73000美元；畢業於名不見經傳的黑丘州立大學的，年薪連44000美元都達不到。

As seen in the previous point you would be better off becoming a respiratory therapist or a dietician straight out of school than investing your money in a mediocre college.

所以如果你打算花錢上一所普通大學，還不如直接退學當一名呼吸治療師或者營養師呢，這樣你還能過得富足一點。

Those frightening figures are for engineering, now consider what the benefits of an arts degree are compared with spending time in the world of work – it is starting to look like one big con.

以上驚人的數據僅是針對工科學位的，現在我們談談在工作領域文科學位有何好處——好像一個大騙局開始了。

This is even more so when you consider how many people are duped into spending even longer at college studying for a graduate degree, precisely because there are no jobs for them in the real world.

你想想有爲什麼有那麼多人會跌入文科這個坑，他們要花更多的時間和精力去攻讀研究生學位，真正的原因就是他們在社會上根本找不到工作。

A master of fine arts is one of the five worst value for money degrees you can take together with PR or advertising (you can learn those skills organically), computer engineering (your knowledge will be out of date before you finish the degree) and meteorology.

美術學碩士學位同公關學、廣告學、計算機工程、氣象學這四種學位一樣，是最沒有“錢”途的學位之一，因爲廣告技巧你完全可以自學成才，電腦技術又更新太快，等到你畢業，你的知識早就已經過時了。

ege is expensive

1.上大學要付出昂貴的代價

You will have gathered from this article that college is not only expensive, it is very expensive. Consider point 7 above, unless your college fees are going to give you a better long term financial and career opportunity return than taking the same money and investing it then you may want to consider skipping the college experience.

看了這篇文章，你就會明白，大學不是貴，而是非常貴！參照上文的第七條，如果你上大學以後能有穩定的工作和經濟來源，不妨把這些工作的工資對比一下你直接把學費用於投資的收益，如果前者還不如後者，你絕對不會選擇走上大學這條路。

Everyone talks about the college premium, the higher earning potential that students with a degree will enjoy over their lifetime. The trouble is that for most of these students that premium is elusive.

大家都知道如今有大學溢價這個現象，就以爲憑個學位就能賺更多的錢，過上好日子。可對很多學生來說，溢價是難以捉摸的。

They may indeed be earning higher salaries (but not always, see point 2 above) but they will be saddled with debt repayments for many years to come.

畢業之後，他們的工資也許真能比沒有學歷的人更高（但事實並非總是如此，詳見上文第二條），可多年內他們會爲了還助學貸款苦不堪言。

These debt repayments will impact on their ability to get a home, to start a family and to save for their children to go to college.

他們的經濟狀況會因多年的分期還款而不容樂觀，直接影響到他們找對象、結婚、養小孩、攢小孩學費。

College can pay off and pay off big time but only if you go to the right school and then on into the right field. Do your research carefully, check what your college actually requires you to do for your degree.

上大學唯有選對學校，選對領域纔沒白費，才能取得成功。你要下一番功夫研究你所在的大學要拿到學位證書到底需要做些什麼。

Is the college you are hoping to attend an Ivy League or highly rated university? If not even the most challenging of degrees may not be worth the paper it is written on.

你想就讀一所常春藤盟校這種高評級的大學嗎？如果不是，那再難的學位也沒什麼用。

College degrees exist, with a few notable exceptions, for the benefit of the organizations that run them and the staff that work there.

除了名校，大學學位就是學校用來讓整個教學體系運轉起來，讓教職人員和學生乖乖呆着的工具。

Most institutions do not care if students study only 5 hours a week, do not care that their staff are substandard because they know that there will be an endless supply of applicants convinced that they need their service just to get ahead in life.

絕大多數教育機構纔不關心他們的學生是不是一週只學習五個小時，也不在乎他們的教職人員有多麼不稱職，他們很清楚會有源源不斷的人申請就讀他們學校，因爲申請者深信上大學能夠出人頭地。

For students in high school at the present time and their parents there are hard decisions ahead.

在讀的高校學生和他們父母正面臨着艱難的抉擇：到底要不要繼續上大學？

It may seem that going to college and staying in education are the best things to do, the aspirational thing to do, the next step in the American dream.

似乎在他們的美國夢中，下一步就應該體驗一下夢寐以求的大學生活，繼續他們的學業。

As far as college is concerned, however, the American dream is broken and going to study at university can mean setting yourself up for decades of debt servicing rather than a high flying career.

可是再看看如今的大學形勢，美國夢已不復存在，上大學就意味着你要規劃怎麼還清數十年的貸款，擁有一份成功的事業成了癡心妄想。

With a very few notable exceptions a college degree is, these days, nothing more than a waste of money. Why fall for the con?

現如今，除了名校的學位有點用，其他的學位純屬浪費錢財，幹嘛要把這種沒用的東西當回事？