[Hoot Gibson]

I would much rather hire an employee with an abundance of common sense and are willing to work with street saavy over one that has 3 degrees. Most degree holders that I have hired ended up being educated idiots that ended up having trouble tieing their own shoes.

In my opinion, a communications or a business degree is basicly useless and a huge waste of money. Todays high schoolers are basicly being shamed by their guidance councellors into believing that a degree is a must to survive in todays society, because in reality they dont know anything any better themselves.

I agree but the unfortunate truth is that many employers will either not hire people without college degrees or they impose glass ceilings for promotion of employees without degrees. There are some exceptions and I think that the bias in favor of degreed applicants may be diminishing some as the cost of degrees continues to far outstrip the cost of living.

I worked for an IT company in Indianapolis whose owner could not have cared less about your degree. Most of his employees did have degrees but if you could program and had no degree or had a degree in Puerto Rican Women's Studies, you were treated the same as a Computer Science major with the same skills. Small business owners are far less hung up on degrees and tend to be more concerned with employees' ability to do the job than large companies are, IMO.