Is your partner having a college degree important to you?

[Anonymous]

Do you think it's important to have educational compatibility along with everything else with your potential partner or does that not matter much or at all to you?

I don't have a degree, it's NOT important that they have one.

I don't have a degree, it IS important that they have one

I have a degree, it is NOT important that they have one

I have a degree, it IS important that they have one

[Anonymous]

No. It does not 100% guarantee success. ﾠ

And I have met uneducated successful people.

[MrOracle]

I'm 3 classes from having a degree, and I couldn't care less about getting the parchment - I went to college to LEARN, and I quit when I learned what I wanted to know.

Whether or not my girl has a degree means absolutely zero to me, ESPECIALLY given how college has become over the last 20 years. It's FAR more important to me that she knows how to THINK for herself and knows how to LEARN.

Today, we have the Internet at our fingertips. We can learn anything we want to learn, whether just reading, perhaps watching videos, or even taking classes or paying for one-on-one remote assistance/tutoring. College, to a large degree, has made learning worse instead of better. College was supposed to teach you HOW to learn, but has become a place that now tries to teach you WHAT TO THINK, and will absolutely attack any opposing ideas or points of view in many cases. That's the opposite of learning or thinking - that's indoctrination.

Besides, the huge number of useless degrees - and the experience with people having those degrees - has been teaching companies that they cannot rely on degrees to predict success. Yes, it's a slow learning process, but TONS of people with degrees, who had excellent-paying jobs in tech, have been let go in the last year, because they proved to be largely useless. And of the people who kept their jobs, you would be surprised at how many DON'T have degrees, though plenty of them do have them, of course.

I'll definitely take a girl who knows how to THINK over a parchment any day. If she has both, great, but the thinking part is 1000 times more important than the parchment.

[bolverk]

My partner having a degree would means nothing, as having a degree is no guarantee of intelligence, and more than a few today are not worth the paper they are written on,

I've worked with people who supposedly had degrees in Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, but who were as dumb as a box of rocks and unable to do the simplest task in either discipline. Contra wise I have worked with people who spent no time in a college/university but were highly intelligent, well read and had no problem doing any job given them.

[PetLover24]

Where I work most of our clients don't have education. It's a low income worker town where most people work in factories. Their ignorance & low intelligence is a massive nusiance to the boss because it handicaps how effectively we can provide services.

Travel 20 minutes to the neighboring town and most of our clients in a starting connected company are educated. Most work in jobs above no skills. You can have an intelligent conversation with them & their lack of ignorance doesn't handicap much.

Sooo to answer your question

I'd NEVER waste my time with someone who doesn't have a college education.

[AviatorTom]

It's important but not a deal-breaker. There are other aspects of their personality that are more important than a sheepskin degree.

[colaman94]

As I don't have one, the most I want my partner to have is either to have one or to have only a lower version. Different countries call them different things. Think after graduating high school, a short 1 or 2 year course (not degree) afterwards at like some university campus or university college for uhh like similar to there's trades there's manual labour, etc. 😆😂 That's basically what I sort of did and have. I'd like her to be similarly. I wouldn't want a college degree girlfriend neither a woman who didn't graduate high school as ordinarily as I did 👀🤭🎉

[colaman94]

In short, I want a short woman who graduated high school, and have no degree (or after graduation, they did additional short study, qualification afterward/skill certificate). 😬

[BourbonAndBacon]

College degrees are useless unless you want to be an employee. I always wanted to own my own business and in my first year of university I realized that the professors had zero business experience and had nothing to offer me. I was learning more outside of university. I had business mentors to get me where I am. If I hire a new graduate I have to unlearn everything they've learned in school to teach them how business actually works. A college degree is useless to me. That being said, my partner went to university on academic scholarship and graduated with 2 degree but by her early 30s is burnt out and just wants to stay at home and take care of the house. I'm still proud of her for how smart she is and how hard she worked to get her degree. If that makes any sense

[love_conquers_lust]

It doesn’t. The material taught in the classroom is fed back from the real world. The feedback loop between the theoretical and the practical.

But at the very least, it establishes a work ethic.

Can’t tell you how many business “savvy” people I’ve come across who don’t know how to actually innovate. Or what’s considered innovation for them is reinventing the wheel for the educated. I’ve found people without a degree have a bigger problem with those who have one than vice versa. Chips in their shoulders.

[BourbonAndBacon]

I've contributed content to university business classes and the professors distort everything to meet their agenda. I don't do that anymore. If a college professor could build a business with a half dozen employees and be able to train and hire a competent GM, they would. Because you could make double what a college professor makes working 30 hours a week or less. It isn't that hard but the first 5 years suck and that's where most businesses fail.
I don't know about work ethic. Every new graduate now seems to want to work from home. That's the opposite of work ethic when someone is too lazy to get up and drive to work. I get twice the productivity from my team when they are all under one roof.
Business classes should be taught by someone who was successful and not by someone who only reads some books. There is almost no real world application taught right now. It is really sad considering the money being wasted on education.

[love_conquers_lust]

Haha. “Business classes”. Spoken like a true business major who doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about when it comes to the very businesses they THINK they know about. I find it funny you’re the one feeding them the poisonous attitudes that earns them a bad rep. I also find it funny that you just supported my point that people from the real world provide feedback to them for theoretical study. Tool, comes to mind.

I have entire textbooks that say you’re wrong in just about every way. I have projects that are still up and running to this day that provide you with the luxuries that support any business you might have. Good ideas are where you find them, whether it be in a textbook or outside one. Schooling in general is what made you what you are today.

If universities are so bad, then every single fortune 500 company (all of them) needs to stop crawling the campuses recruiting undergrads. I also don’t want them snooping around campuses for breakthroughs and innovations. They also need to stop donating absurd amounts of money funding research.

Work from home can be a problem whether you have a degree or not.

[BourbonAndBacon]

I'm not a business major. I dropped out first year and never looked back. I found successful businessmen and picked their brain. I was sought out be college professors but they have their own agenda. My material was never used. I feel bad for the students.

Fortune 500 companies are looking for the top of the class graduate. Maybe 1 or 2 a year and they look on multiple campuses for that candidate. I do have 2 business majors working for me though as carpenters.

[love_conquers_lust]

You found successful businessman and picked their brain. So, they gave you knowledge for free. College students have to PAY to acquire their knowledge. Then I had to listen to bitchy, whiny blue collar fucks cry about other college grads complaining about their supposed arrogant attitudes because they wanted the information they had PAID and worked for. Some of them further cried about it if they couldn’t understand what the fuck I was talking about when I tried explaining shit to them, they’re not all created equal.

There was a push at plants to promote degreed managers instead of off the street because they were better leaders. They managed more with their minds than their mouths and had a way of coming up with solutions using abstract and theoretical concepts rather I saw it, first hand.

I don’t know what majors you were recruiting. In engineering, +90% of the people I worked with found jobs with Fortune 500 companies. Companies can’t afford to be picky with engineers because there are so few if them, and their numbers are going to drop with upcoming generations.

I can respect carpentry. Good trade to be aware of. I hate drywalling, finishing, and painting. I generally get along with most trades because I needed them to complete projects. There was respect because I understood the nuance of specializing in a trade. They also respected me because they understood I was responsible for the performance of their products, they we’re responsible for the installation.

[BourbonAndBacon]

I think we mostly on the same page. College degrees are important in finding a job. 3 of my kids have degrees and the one that doesn't is self employed. I have a bad taste in my mouth from universities. One of my kids went to school for engineering and that is vastly different than going through for business. You get way more practical experience in engineering and yes they work very closely with the real world.

[Anonymous]

Let me start by saying I fully support anyone who pursues a degree. Statistically speaking you make more at every stage of life with one, than without one. Having said that I fully admit to not having finished college. It took me two years to learn that college wasn't right for ME. If I had it to do over again. I wished I hadn't spent 2 years. On tuition. Instead I could have been putting it towards what eventually became my business. I don't think education is EVER wasted.

Now as far as her. I judge people neither by income nor education and I loathe people who do. I don't care if she is a millionaire or makes minimum wage or long as she has a passion for whatever she does. Because life without passion is not a life worth living. I'm less concerned about where she's at, but where she's going and what she's doing to get there. Because we're all lifetime learners.

[midnightmoon05]

No. But he has to be smart and a well balance individual. With ambition and goal/future aligned with me.
if he can’t keep up with me, he is out.
both my teen kids are very smart hard working on school…as a mom… I hate that they emphasize so much on these none-sense classes. I think they can be smarter when less educated. Get it?

[colaman94]

Nicely worded "well balance" or well balanced. Lots of nuts out there, everywhere, all genders and social classes 😀

[NathanDavis]

nope, not at all...

I don't even have one myself, lol... but all my partners happen to be college graduates, and they were on fields in which one is absolutely necessary...

personally, I would prefer if my surgeon or doctor (if/when needed) had a college degree and beyond... lol

[menina]

I have a degree but it's not important that my boyfriend (assuming that I had one) has it too. I know that we don't have all the same opportunities, so some people are unable to go to college. Besides, not everyone wants to go to college and that's also fine.

[Anonymous]

I have and advanced degree, but it's not important to me what her educational background is, so long as she's nice, fun and hot. Honestly anything close to average intelligence with the equivalent of a high school degree is sufficient. More education is cool and all, but it doesn't really make a girl substantially more attractive.

HOWEVER, the way the world is set up, if you do have a college degree it's more than likely that you end up in social circles where everyone else does too, so it's more likely that you'll end up with someone with a college degree just because that's what's available. That's kind of my situation. It's not that I seek it out in a girl--its just that most all the girls around me happen to have one.

[Lara_Croft]

God is Good. Education in whatever form is important. Not necessarily college degree. I have a Bachelor's and will have an MS in a few and I'm African so it's high stakes for my future husband. But, I take a lot of things into consideration- his relationship with Jesus being chief

[JustinTheGreat]

What’s important to me is having ambition. And that doesn’t necessarily mean having a college degree.
My husband did not go to college but he puts in hard work at his job and is always working toward getting new licenses and promotions.
He’s doing well for himself and that’s all that matters to me

[sheikalana]

I don't have a degree and I'm way more successful that all my friends who have a degree. My husband has a degree but that doesn't really matter to me. As long as you're ambitious, hard working have big dreams and a plan to achieve them I'm okay with it.

[Unit1]

Not really. Degrees in general aren't that important. What matters more is how she makes her living and if having a degree is a key part to it, then so be it.

I believe that Making the real big money doesn't require any degrees. Its an ability we have to figure out for ourselves. Probably No one driving a Lamborghini or Ferrari has made it because of an academic degree.

[DizzyDesii]

My degree came across as pretty pointless since it wasn't something i was passionate about and didn't really further my career goals. I’d like the guy to at least have a high school diploma and trade school certificate

[Screenwriter]

I have several degrees and it's important that my partner cares about education. Having some exposure to the college experience is worthwhile, OR being an avid reader and self educated and wanting to be a lifelong learner.

[Anonymous]

College degrees are meaningless now. They are indoctrination degrees. I would rather have someone who just started their own business or something like that.

[andreasderjuengere]

There are some ''degrees'' that life gives us. These are just not printed on paper, or ''awarded'' by some authority.

My lady partner is welcome to benefit from my own 'degree' - as long as I benefit from her affection and loyalty :)

[Anonymous]

No. When it comes to selecting a partner most men don’t care about her education. At the same time I’d like someone who can at least hold a conversation. But I’d probably marry the cutie working at McDoanlds than the CEO of a company.

[IslaTheWitch]

I care about having interesting topics to talk about and paying bills. If he can cover it degree is not important.

[LiamJHayden]

Nope. I stopped my pursuit of one before my sophomore year because I was already making more for my business than the degree would get me.

[madhatters4]

i don't think a college degree is necessary. more important is intelligence