Gone4Good
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That fluffy degree is required to be considered for most real jobs nowadays.
It may be required, but it is no longer sufficient. Having a fluffy degree used to distinquish you as someone who was reasonably intelligent and self disciplined enough to get through a four year program. Employers would take you on and teach you what you needed to know.
Now the world is so awash in such people that the generic degree has lost much of its original value. Now employers actually want you to know something usefull too. That's where our recent college graduates are running in to trouble. The game has changed and nobody told them they should be seeking skills, not simply a degree.