When is a University Degree Pointless?

• When you need mentors in workplace to teach you how to do everything?
• When you need help using google to search for information?
• When your only way of learning anything new is by asking or expecting others to show you how it is done?
• When you can't seem to understand anything and often in workplace you use phrases like 'I don't understand'?
• When you have no applied skills even if it is intuitive or requires basic common sense?
• When you can learn more by doing rather than by sitting in a classroom?
• When your entire objective of learning is to pass an exam and/or course?
• When you spend your time sharing academic theory but have literally no practical awareness of how to apply any of it?
• When you can understand everything by just picking up a book or an online tutorial then applying it yourself?
• When you understand the advanced theoretical concepts but have no clue about the basic mechanics of it?
• When your lack of academic integrity extends into your bad work ethics and behavior?
• When you share an air of arrogance about having achieved a degree by looking down on people with many years of practical experience in workplace?
• When you have little respect and consideration for others in workplace?
• When you unable to meet and agree on sensible timelines?
• When you struggle to micro-manage and organize your own work habits?
• When you sit there in workplace playing politics and blame games with everyone?
• When you are not proactive and sufficiently resourceful in the workplace?
• When you struggle to make decisions and reason through things especially when things go wrong?
• When you need help with everything including things that are a no-brainer?
• When you outright dismiss new ways of doing things, as part of your narrow-mindedness, without keeping an open-mind for critical exploration and assessment?
• When you don't give credit where credit is due?
• When you exhibit discrimination, racism, and biases in workplace in the way you treat others?
• When you expect the opposite gender to clean up after you and treat them as less equal to you?
• When the manifestations of your mannerisms and attitudes display a lack of professionalism?
• When you feel the need to argue about everything even things that don't require a discussion?
• When you find it difficult to adapt to change?
• When you prefer to work in a routine?
• When you don't learn from your mistakes?
• When your degree is unrecognized and unaccredited as a valid degree?
• When you find yourself questioning the value of your degree and the time spent towards achieving it?
• When you have sufficient practical experience that no one bothers to even care what university you went to and what degree you earned?
• When after earning a degree you are still doing a menial job that didn't even require a qualification?
• When majority of your learning happens in the school of life rather than in a classroom?
• When you are still clueless about what you want to do with life and how getting a degree will make that happen?
• When you look back and you realize you should have done a degree in another subject instead?
• When you are still a reckless and unproductive mess in society?
• When you realize your intention of attaining a degree was to please your parents rather than being aligned with your interests and talents?
• When you use wikipedia references as a source of your knowledge?
• When you rely on conspiracy theories, gossips and rumors as a way to justify your claims?
• When you only know how to regurgitate things?
• When you can't see any sense in applying best practices?
• When you discredit others based on their backgrounds rather than objectively evaluating the quality of their work?
• When you try to take credit for other people's work?
• When the name of an institution you attended is more important and significant in value to you in comparison to the content of the course?
• When you disrupt and undermine other people's work while requiring help to do your own work?
• When you unethically use, exploit, and walk over other people to help advance your own career?
• When you had to bribe your way into earning a university degree?
• When you had to pay someone on a crowdsourcing site to do the entire coursework or dissertation for you?
• When you cheat your way through an exam or a coursework?
• When your degree course has literally no coverage on applied ethics in broader and narrower terms whether as part of university-wide or course-specific initiative?
• When your investor only cares about what university you went to rather than the potential of your proposed product?
• When your employer or interviewer cares more about what university you went to rather than your skills and experience?
• When you try to spend time optimizing a solution even before you have fully understood the business case and solved the problem in a prototype?
• When you are unwilling to challenge the norm and status quo especially if it is incorrect nor the better way of doing things?
• When you can't be bothered to read the documentation?