Hear me out. Here’s a tough pill to swallow. Unless you’re becoming a doctor or a lawyer, your degree is basically worthless.

💀 Especially that high school diploma you flexed like an achievement. 💀 Nobody checks. Nobody cares. And here’s the kicker—half the people hiring you are walking around with faked credentials anyway.

So tell me again why you’re drowning in student loan debt for a degree that holds the same weight as a counterfeit diploma off Craigslist?

📌 THE DEATH OF CREDENTIALISM: WHY DEGREES NO LONGER MEAN SH*T

Let’s talk numbers. Because facts don’t care about your tuition bill.

1️⃣ MOST EMPLOYERS DON’T EVEN VERIFY YOUR DEGREE

📊 According to a 2022 survey by ResumeBuilder, 87% of hiring managers NEVER check an applicant’s diploma. 📊 Only 30% of employers bother verifying college degrees at all—mostly in STEM and medical fields. 📊 High school diplomas? Might as well be Monopoly money.

🔥 Translation: ✔ If you have half a brain and can fake confidence in an interview, you’re already ahead of half the job market. ✔ HR is a joke—they don’t have the resources (or the motivation) to verify everyone’s degree. ✔ Phil, your HR manager, probably faked his way in too—and now he’s the one interviewing YOU.

2️⃣ THE FAKE DEGREE INDUSTRY IS BOOMING BECAUSE IT WORKS

📊 More than 500,000 fake degrees are in circulation in the U.S. alone. 📊 People are paying anywhere from $50 to $500 for counterfeit diplomas—and getting hired with them. 📊 Multiple CEOs and government officials have been exposed for using fake degrees.

🔥 Translation: ✔ Somebody is out there finessing a six-figure salary with a degree they bought online. ✔ Meanwhile, you’re crying about job rejections with a “real” degree that nobody even verifies. ✔ If your diploma holds the same weight as a fake one, what was the point?

3️⃣ COLLEGE DEGREES ARE RAPIDLY LOSING THEIR VALUE

📊 A 2023 study by the Federal Reserve found that nearly 40% of college graduates work jobs that don’t require a degree. 📊 The average student loan debt in 2024 hit $38,000—meaning most graduates start their careers financially crippled. 📊 Meanwhile, trade school grads make more than many degree holders with 75% less debt.

🔥 Translation: ✔ Four years and thousands of dollars later, your fancy degree has the same earning potential as a high school dropout who picked up a trade. ✔ Tech CEOs are hiring based on skill, not paper credentials. ✔ The only guaranteed outcome of college is debt.

4️⃣ HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS ARE A JOKE—AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT

📊 A 2021 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that over 50% of high school graduates read below an 8th-grade level. 📊 Employers openly admit that a high school diploma means nothing in terms of job readiness. 📊 GEDs are treated the same as diplomas by 90% of employers—so much for prestige.

🔥 Translation: ✔ Your high school diploma is a participation trophy. ✔ Nobody asks for it, nobody verifies it, nobody cares. ✔ If you think your diploma matters, I’ve got some beachfront property in Nebraska to sell you.

5️⃣ THE ONLY DEGREES THAT ACTUALLY MATTER

There are exactly two career paths where your degree actually holds weight:

🏥 Medicine – Because you can’t fake a brain surgery. ⚖️ Law – Because courts have these little things called “bar exams.”

📌 EVERYTHING ELSE? 💀 If your field doesn’t require a state-licensed exam, your degree is nothing more than a glorified resume filler. 💀 Your marketing, psychology, business, and communications degrees? Replaceable. 💀 Half the successful people in those fields either dropped out or never went to college.

🔥 Translation:

✔ If you’re not in a highly regulated profession, experience and skill beat education every time. ✔ You wasted four years memorizing textbooks while some dropout got hired and learned on the job. ✔ Nobody cares about your “Bachelor’s” unless it comes with provable results.