Anyone who tells you a degree is worthless has no idea what they are talking about . Degrees are a huge expense . A large portion of are on extras that have nothing to do with the job . At best they make you more fun at cocktail parties . An education is never worthless . I would say that I can ' t disagree with that , but tell that to the English lit major pulling espresso . Back when I started , there weren ' t degrees for the line of work I was interested in . The other year , I figured I ' d go back and get that piece of paper . The ' computer operating systems ' class was such a joke I couldn ' t risk going further into debt . We had to design an operating system . I designed one for a clown car . It was a creative writing assignment . I got an A . edited for clairity