Every student going to college, taking out student loans to cover his/her educational expenses wonders at some point in his/her educational career whether after getting all this education is he/she going to get the higher paying job or not. The notion is that if you go to college get a higher degree you will get a good paying job. In this article from The Texas Tribune, Tom Pauken chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission finds out that not the case. He argues that in upcoming years the high paying jobs would be in the fast food industry like Mc Donald’s and most of these jobs do not even require college degree. He also suggests that it would be beneficial if students are offered some type of training programs that would meet the conditions for the job industry for upcoming years. So the question arises why do we even need to go to college and get a higher education degree? Texas Higher Education Commissioner Raymund Paredes argues that we need to reform all aspects (fields) of the education system and college degrees are still beneficial as it turns out that people with college degree usually have low unemployment rates and they use that knowledge one way or another, so it is beneficial to get the college degree. I chose this article because it relates to students and our futures. We are going to college and making a substantial monetary investment into our future by paying tuition with hopes of finding a better, higher paying job once we leave school. But, what if we have a college degree and still have to work at the same level with those who did not go to college and who did not work as hard as us, then what’s the point of going to college and aquiring all the debt?
