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What if you didn't have to go to college?
You may have heard that a college degree is the only path to success. But many college graduates end up mired in debt and underemployed, working jobs that don't even require a degree. The good news? There are many promising career options for those who don't want to or can't attend college.
In Rethinking College, award-winning journalist Karin Klein sets out a new path for our country's students and their families. Klein examines why the traditional college-for-all model has been overhyped and is growing less relevant, then shares practical advice and real-world examples of exactly how others have succeeded without a four-year degree.
Discover an abundance of alternative paths, including white-collar apprenticeships, certificate programs, entrepreneurship, creative careers, residential public-service work, and more.
Klein will guide you step-by-step toward a broad range of fulfilling and well-paid careers that don't require a degree—ranging from pilots, costume designers, influencers, writers, computer programmers, corporate headhunters, film editors, and so many more. The breadth of possibilities is wider than you think!
Rethinking College is perfect for:
- Those who are unsure of their next education or career steps.
- Those looking to make a job pivot.
- Parents seeking guidance for their child.
- School counselors who want to offer their students more and better options.
Don't just go to college because everyone says you have to—find the path that's right for you. It's out there.
Review:
For many, this will be an eye opener of a book. While you may have asked, why did we as taxpayers, have to help write off so much college student debt, you may not have thought how it was influenced by a change in perspective back in the 2000s, which began influencing high schools, and what graduates were aimed toward. You only have to look at how grading systems are being changed across the country to allow lower ranking kids to gain access to college entry, to understand why colleges have to constantly change their requirements, and why so many have education that is not helping their careers. Why the huge push to everyone going to college, when it only seems to have given us a wide amount of kids not able to use their degrees in actual jobs. Jobs requiring degrees have slumped, but graduate numbers have increased. It was a pathway doomed from the start. Even my kid has done a cost analysis for the jobs she was interested in and realized for everyone 1000 graduates from college, there is one job. ONE. Now thing how many jobs are becoming automated and see the downhill grade.
By offering alternate pathways, Klein shows parents and students, the many different options, some of which they may not have thought of. Today's younger generations aren't looking for a career- they are looking at a job that gives them fulfillment. And if that job lasts, then great. If not, it's time to move on to what does. And that change of thought is really how this book helps modern kids seek the jobs that interest THEM, and how they can succeed in life. Ms Grace is well through this book now, and I can see her mind turning over new ideas and different pathways that she might not have considered. If you have a kid in college, check out this book and see how maybe a rethink might be the best thing for your child!
About the Author:
Karin Klein has been a member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board for the past 20 years, covering education, medicine, science, and environment, and was a regular columnist for the Sacramento Bee for four years. She shared in two staff Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of breaking news and was the 2006 recipient of the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writers, the Logan Science Writing Fellowship at Woods Hole and Arctic Alaska, and the Metcalf Institute Environmental Writing Fellowship. She also has won numerous national, regional, and local journalism awards, including the Education Writers Association award for her creation of an interactive education page for The Times.
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