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> Sociologists have been arguing for decades that college
> is primarily - though not absolutely - about certification
> and networking, not about learning, science or citizenship.
I've been doing land surveying for 33 years now. You can't get licensed as a land surveyor in Florida without a four-year degree. No one employed as a land surveying technician can afford to get a four-year college degree, ever. In this recession, all this is working out especially badly for me right now.
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