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Why do people with career training get the same jobs as 4 year degrees? WE PUT IN SO MUCH MORE HARD WORK!!!!?

I am going for a double bachelors but i see that Career training is offering degrees, thats not fair that people with no REAL degrees get the same jobs.

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1. well realistically they will only be able to do same job for the rest of their life... People with degrees can become managers or go off on a different path that will include their degree... You go up and they stay the same...
2. You are right, they get the same jobs to start with. however, 10 or 15 years down the road is when companies start separating the sheep from the goats, metaphorically speaking. Management and higher-level positions are much more available to those with advanced degrees and/or degrees from prestigious institutions. Companies know which schools offer thinly disguised vocational degrees and which are "real" degrees, believe me.
3. I think it's because the school of "hard knocks" and real life experience can you teach you so much more than reading about it can.
4. Do you truly think that people who have career training do not work EVERY bit as hard as you?
5. Because a degree is worthless in the real world unless it is vocational (doctor, teacher etc). I left school at 18 and went straight into business, I study business every day for at least two hours to learn about how it REALLY works, not just in theory. I study finance, business, NLP, Sigma 6, Prince 2, management techniques as well as studying the attitudes and behaviours of great achievers (from people such as Nelson Mandela to less obvious but more personal successes such as Stan Williams) to emulate their success, and I do it all free of charge and in my own time (I have built such a network of connections I have a range of people to ask about anything I need clarification on - people who have used it on a practical level and succeeded). At the age of 22 I am taking a salary of £45,000 with a side business that is earning me about £2000 a month. If I went to uni I would now be £20,000 in debt, have out of date theory knowledge (do you really think the world of commerce is the same today as it was 4 years ago?) with no practical appplication and have been working for a year, earning about £18k ish. So you wasted you time and money going to uni, sad but true!
6. it also depends on the job. Hands on education trumps book education in some fields. to pass career training you have to know what you are working on. a bachelors degree means you can retain information long enough to pass. masters and up means you know what you are talking about. For your situation if you spent 4 years to do what someone can learn in 12-18months well friend it looks like they were a bit smarter than you, sorry!
7. I had to go tech school since I couldn't afford to attend a university even with financial aid. All I have is a 2 year an Honors Associate's of Applied Science Degree. People with vocational degrees will get the same jobs but they will never get a promotion and will be the first ones to get laid off. I know because I've been there. Laid off twice because of not having a 4 year diploma. What I think is unfair is every company thinking that someone who does not have a 4 year diploma is stupid and not worth hiring or keeping them on the payroll. It is also not fair for you to pass judgment on people who don't have 4 year university degrees. I had to work hard for my degree just like any other student. Believe it or not, vocational schools are cut throat, even going as far as sabotaging/destroying projects of students with higher marks. Students compete with each other to get the highest marks because those are the students who get the jobs. I knew that going in so I worked my @rse off to keep and maintain my "A" average and 4.0 GPA, even when my projects were destroyed.