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1. College
The only reason people possibly feel pressured to go to college anymore is that they believe it’s still the standard required by hiring managers. What happens when those who are self-taught online become the hiring managers though? It’s already happening. Today’s hiring managers, in tech especially, ask you to complete an assignment that demonstrates you can do the job and are looking less at what school you went to on your resume. Schools are not innovating even close as fast as technology nowadays so they are quickly becoming irrelevant. You’re better off taking a Cybersecurity Boot camp and trying to buddy up on LinkedIn or Twitter. This just may be the solution to the Student Loan Crisis.
I don’t regret going to college, I met a lot of cool people, had an amazing philosophy professor that changed my life, and it was a good time. But if you’re entering college-age now, I am not sure it will do that for you because the Internet and social media are doing education more efficiently. Social media is the main public space, you can learn all the skills you want for work using Coursera, Youtube, and thousands of other resources, often free or cheap. You can search online for any of the trivia or concepts they are teaching in a school. Even when I took computer science, we talked more about it than we actually coded. I learned coding…
