Will you Pay 100K for your Kid to earn a degree in social work? Psychology? Liberal Arts?

I am currently attending college, majoring in social work minor in counseling. I am paying for it on my own my parents are helping pay for it.

Now I cannot speak for other majors but this is how I feel about social work, and i wish that you would understand what it is that social workers do.

Social work is a selfless and worthy degree program. The people who have degrees in social work are underpaid and overworked. They are the ones investigating and helping protect children in abusive and neglectful situations, helping diagnose mental illness, taking care of our veterans after returning home, helping families deal with death of their loved ones. They do not do it for the money, but that is not what it is about. People are so consumed with a degree that will make them the most money, which is fine if that's what they want, but to sit there and degrade people who help others is quite sad.

So if my children wanted to major in social work specifically and needed help, yes I would help them.

My kids are out of school and if everyone had a degree in Computer Science it wouldn't be worth much and then you'd be needing someone else's kid who had a degree in Psychology to help you recover your lost sense of worth.

And another someone else's kid to save your marriage who had a degree in social work.

And Liberal Arts is a degree that people in all areas use.

My kids and I both worked to send them to college, and we had a small college fund. They didn't graduate with huge debt because we planned ahead. Something more people should try.

Over the course of your lifetime, $100k is not much to qualify you for a career you will love. My daughter is finishing her Phd in Philosophy. At that level, there is no cost, since the student assists a professor and teaches. She also picks up translation jobs from magazines that want someone who understands the concepts behind the words.. I am not unhappy with that investment in my daughter.

The degree that you get for you is up to you. Your children will have to make their own way.

I have a

BSEE from MIT

BSBA from UT Dallas

MBA from Chicago Booth

I own a bar and Restarant after 24 years of coding.

I am paying for my son to get a degree in Resort Management at UNLV. It is what he wants to do and he will be good at it because of that.

Nope. Not for any of those fluff worthless degrees.

I helped support my wife through law school. She paid her own way through Nursing school. We both served our country. I expect our kids to have the same drive and expectations as we've held for ourselves.

You can add political science and so called "gender studies" degree programs to the list of crp I won't pay for my kids to pursue.

If they get a full scholarship they can take what they want. If I'm paying they'll take a practical degree program.

will not pay anything for my kid to get any degree. they make it on their own like i did or they fail...it's up to them. that's the number one problem today is kids think theydeserve things. you only DESERVE what YOU work for.

No, never. I don't care how happy it would make him in the short term if he gravitated that way or not, being older and wiser I KNOW those two and many others won't pay off in even in the long run.

I look at it like investing. I am investing in future profitability. THAT is like buying oceanfront property in AZ.

Yes, if that is what they want to study. Lots of computer work is being outsourced.

HIGH COST OF SCHOOL = does not find a job...

SCHOOLS WILL FEEL THE PINCH SOON...

AND LAY OFF LIKE COPS AND TEACHERS

NO JOBS = NO TAX BASE