Markwayne Mullin is completely unqualified to be the head of DHS, but not because the lack of a Bachelors degree. I don’t like this being used as a talking point as it perpetuates the myth that only those with college degrees are qualified for high paying jobs. Trump has a college degree and look where that got us.
Neither my husband nor I have a college degree. Both of us are senior level IT engineers. In fact, my husband is the one his boss calls on when there is a technical problem with a client’s application that no one else on the team can figure out. He’s the least “educated” in the group, many of who have master degrees, but he can troubleshoot the problem like no one else.
The fact that the media is making a high deal out of a lack of a college degree being a huge reason why Markwayne Mullin is not qualified adds to society’s notion everyone must have a degree to be qualified. This adds to the current pressure of our youth feeling the only path to success is a college degree, amassing massive debt in student loans. Markwayne Mullin would have his PhD and still be unqualified. Education, or lack thereof, hasn’t nothing to do with what he isn’t qualified.
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