There was a time, not too many years ago, that having your name on a college diploma was a really big deal. In today's world, however, a college diploma is the new high school diploma. College degrees do not carry anywhere near the weight they once did. Due to the ease of obtaining student loans, a college degree may communicate nothing more than that you are up to your eyeballs in debt. As a result, the landscape of hiring has dramatically changed, Human resources departments can no longer simply skim through a stack of resumes and separate those with degrees from those that don't. In fact, I am seeing more and more employment ads for technical jobs with NO reference to a degree requirement. This is especially true in the world of computer programming. Many companies seeking computer coders DO NOT CARE about your degree, only that you can write code. The new world of online learning is giving people the chance to grab the skill they need without all that is involved with a traditional college degree. Watch this touching video about a homeless man that learned how to write computer code.

Online Learning Can Be Amazingly Inexpensive

An online learning website that I just love, and have taken numerous courses from is Udemy. Udemy has online classes on everything from how to write computer code, start an online business, to even how to get a date. Some of the technical courses can go for $500 or more (which is still a bargain compared to what it would cost to take this same class at a college), but every so often they have a big sale. From now until August 25 you can grab virtually any of their courses for just $10 by clicking this link (coupon code is embedded). 

I took a couple of hours recently looking through the wide array of online courses available at Udemy, The bottom line is that no one has an excuse these days to be without work. Most people can easily grab a new skill that is demand online. Even if you are so poor that you don't have an Internet connection at home, you can go to your local library and knock out one ore more of these courses on a public access computer.   

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