Why is a college education now so useless?

Why is it that all a college degree is good for these days is a job working retail or more education? What's the point?

I personally don't think that a college education is useless. I just think that the world we live in today has changed the way a college education is used.

You can't go to college now and think that you are going to get a job right out of college in that field. You are going to have to work for what you want.

Personally, I have a Computer Programming College degree and I don't work directly in the Computer Industry. I work in the Financial industry, however, I find that the computer training that I received at college has made my job easier for me in the financial industry. Source(s): Personal experience.

It prevents you from having to clean toilets for a living. Or work ina slaughter house.
Poor choice of major.
In today's society, it's not what you know but what you'll kiss. Sorry the world has changed.
expirence is more, i guess. i have the same issue in pittsburgh. plus the country is at war. there is nothing to do but join and kill. i hope it will be over soon and thos hot guys come home i am single now.
Sometimes being in the right place at the right time is the key.. But these days,,, companies are more interested in whether you are bilingual (speaking Spanish)... The hard earned degree can lose out to an illegal immigrant..