I'm 42 years old. No degree. I've beat out many job applicants because I had experience, but they had a degree. Since there is no degree in say, office management, experience wins over any degree for non-degree jobs.

Unless your job of choice directly related to your career, you're 4 years behind in experience. Managers don't need you to write an essay with sources, or use anything else you just learned. Sucks, I know.

I told our kid all this, and she still wants a very useless degree which we get to help pay for.

Can we have a moment of silence for the poor parents paying towards these useless degrees?

Anyways, the trades are calling. Took me six weeks to get a plumber here to hook up my well pump. That guy was in demand and well paid. But that's not what kids want.

Someone told you all a huge lie.