00:00four years sounds like a long time ain't
00:02nobody got time for that and that's how
00:04bachelor degrees tend to take but in
00:06today's video we are going to be talking
00:08about associate degrees
00:10aka degrees that take around two years
00:13now you might think that the types of
00:14degrees that are good at the four-year
00:16level are going to be the exact same as
00:18the ones that are good at the two-year
00:20and actually that's not correct there
00:22are different types of degrees that are
00:23better at the two-year level aka
00:26four-year level or bachelor's six-year
00:29level which is masters and the
00:31eight-year level which is
00:32doctorate and in this video we are going
00:33to be talking about the associate level
00:35degrees that are really good
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01:43one we're gonna try to do this list
01:45alphabetically and we're gonna start
01:48degrees okay so art degrees at the
01:50associate level now i'm gonna be honest
01:52with you guys you probably
01:54already know my answer here the only
01:56time i would ever consider getting an
01:59art related degree is if you're someone
02:02world-class good okay so if you are like
02:05a world-class pianist or a
02:07class you know classical guitar player
02:09for instance and you get an offer for a
02:11full ride scholarship to juilliard
02:14then that might be worth it and that's
02:15pretty much just like a situation that
02:180.01 of people will find themselves in
02:21and in that very rare case i think that
02:23getting an art degree would be worth it
02:25but you'd probably want to get it at the
02:26bachelor's masters or doctoral level
02:29for everybody else if you have
02:31aspirations to become an artist i am
02:33definitely not saying that you shouldn't
02:34become an artist i think that's awesome
02:36i have tons of respect for artists
02:38however there are much better ways of
02:40going about doing that you would have to
02:42get a little bit creative you know start
02:43some kind of side hustle that involves
02:45your art i think you'd get way more out
02:47of spending four years of your life
02:49moving to a place where there are a lot
02:50of like-minded people who do the same
02:52type of art that you do
02:54and just working with them and then just
02:55practicing your craft every single day i
02:58think you'd get way more out of doing
03:00it would also cost you about you know
03:02eighty thousand dollars less so i'm not
03:04going to go too deeply into this one
03:05guys but it definitely is going into
03:07f tier and by the way guys the way i'm
03:11is how the u.s census bureau categorizes
03:14different types of college degrees
03:16i think that's an improvement just
03:17because if the us census bureau does it
03:19that way that's probably the best way to
03:21in my past videos i've kind of
03:22categorized them in my own way
03:24but i decided to go with the way that
03:26the us census bureau does it
03:27so next one on the list is going to be
03:29what's known as biological science
03:31degrees and this is going to be
03:33biology microbiology any type of science
03:37degree that involves
03:38living organisms so when it comes to the
03:42are going to be able to find some types
03:46type jobs that are involved with
03:48biological science so for instance
03:50you know you might have a job as a
03:51technician where you're basically just
03:53going around and checking
03:54samples it's not going to be super high
03:56paying and it's going to be very
03:58repetitive it's kind of going to be like
04:00however you can find jobs at the
04:03associate level i would actually say
04:04when it comes to biological science uh
04:07the in terms of investment and your
04:08return on investment it's a little bit
04:10better at the associate level than it is
04:12at the bachelor's level a lot of the
04:14time if you want those really good jobs
04:16that everyone you know sees themselves
04:18like becoming a scientist for instance
04:20you're gonna need to get a masters at
04:22the bare minimum and a lot of the time
04:23you'll have to get a doctorate so for
04:25this one i'm gonna go ahead and put
04:26biological sciences into
04:29sea tier next on the list we're going to
04:30be talking about business degrees at the
04:33level i have a really good friend who
04:35went to college got an associates in
04:38and then he was gonna go back to get the
04:40bachelor's but something happened with
04:42and he couldn't go back so what he did
04:44is he got a management level role
04:46at a clothing store and this is a role
04:48he wouldn't have been able to get right
04:50away without the associate level degree
04:52he worked his way up from there then he
04:53got another management level role at a
04:56retail store worked his way up from
04:58there for a couple years
04:59and now he works at a fortune 50 company
05:03over six figures a year so business
05:05degrees tend to be extremely flexible
05:08uh they're good pretty much no matter
05:09what industry you go into
05:11in this case he worked in like three
05:12different industries and it was just as
05:14useful in all of them
05:15and even at the associate level business
05:17degrees are relatively good now if you
05:20think you're just gonna get a business
05:22and then not work hard i think you're a
05:24little bit mistaken here
05:25my friend for instance worked very hard
05:27he usually was working like 50 60 hours
05:30but his hard work really paid off for
05:32him and he was able to land a
05:33dream job and when i say dream job like
05:36he tells me some of the stuff he does
05:37and it's just amazing like
05:39this company totally spoils him they
05:41order takeout almost
05:43every single day the company pays for it
05:45they have unlimited snacks they have all
05:47kinds of different breaks all kinds of
05:50the only thing he complains to me about
05:51is he says a lot of the people that work
05:53under him are way too spoiled but i kind
05:55am going off on a tangent here um
05:57overall i'm gonna give business degrees
05:59a tier ranking at the associate level
06:02next on the list is going to be
06:04communications degrees at the associate
06:06level so this is going to be things like
06:07you know communication for instance
06:09journalism etc now the big problem with
06:11communication type degrees is that
06:13way too general and this is a big
06:15problem at pretty much every level
06:17whether it's associate
06:19bachelor masters or doctorate i think
06:21the skill of communication is great but
06:23in my opinion it's more of a
06:25soft skill and there's no other way of
06:27learning it than just by practicing so
06:30i might get really good at a certain
06:32type of communication right so
06:34let's say i got really good at radio
06:38some of that is going to bleed over into
06:40making youtube videos but a lot of it
06:42and i would still have to learn the
06:44skill of making youtube videos because
06:46that's a different type of communication
06:48so with soft skills like this i've
06:50learned over time the only way to get
06:52good at it is just to practice practice
06:54practice now this one
06:55isn't as bad as some of the other ones
06:56on the list there's still some
06:58opportunity out there for you it's
07:00probably better to you know have a
07:01degree than to not have a degree
07:03especially at the associates level it's
07:05not going to cost all that much if you
07:06just go to a community college for
07:08so overall i'm going to go ahead and put
07:10this one into d tier
07:12next on the list is going to be
07:13education degrees and
07:15at the associate level education degrees
07:17in my opinion are not
07:18great you have to get to at least a
07:20bachelor's level for them to be viable
07:23unfortunately here in the us we don't
07:25really pay teachers what they're worth
07:27they contribute quite a bit of value
07:28they don't really get paid
07:30as much as they should probably for that
07:32value and especially at the associate
07:35just not a lot of opportunities there
07:36you need to at least get a
07:38bachelor's in education so this one is
07:42tier next on the list is going to be
07:44engineering degrees at the associate
07:47so engineering is extremely valuable as
07:49a skill set just because it's practical
07:53and at the associate level you do see
07:55some technician type jobs that are
07:57available so for instance you have
07:58instrumentation and control
08:00engineering which might land you a
08:01technician job you start off around 54
08:04000 a year which isn't bad and towards
08:05the mid to end part of your career you
08:07might make it into the mid
08:0980 000 range however there aren't that
08:11many opportunities out there for these
08:13engineering technician jobs and again
08:15you're gonna be doing a lot of the grunt
08:17work but it's definitely not a bad
08:19option just not as good as a couple
08:21other ones on the list
08:23so overall i'm gonna put this one into a
08:26on the list is going to be health
08:27degrees and this is the one that
08:29really shines pretty much at every level
08:32so it doesn't matter whether you're
08:33looking at kind of a two-year level like
08:37or a four-year level like bachelor's or
08:39a six-year level like
08:41masters or a eight-year level like
08:43doctorate there are great health degrees
08:45every single level that you look at now
08:47the thing about health degrees is it's a
08:49little hard to compare them to other
08:52because you're gonna have some health
08:53degrees and health certifications that
08:56you know six months some of them take a
08:57year and a half some of them take
08:59three years so it's not dead on spot on
09:02level like a lot of these other ones are
09:04for the associates degrees
09:06and so it is a little bit like comparing
09:07apples to oranges here but there are a
09:10ton of health related degrees out there
09:12somewhere between you know six months to
09:15three years of studying
09:16and you can make well over fifty
09:18thousand dollars a year a lot of these
09:19are going to be technician type degrees
09:22some of them are going to be really well
09:24known and some of them are going to be
09:25extremely niche where maybe there's only
09:2710 000 people who do the job in the
09:30there's all kinds of assistant jobs
09:32there's also technician jobs where
09:34you're just a technician for health care
09:37so this one clearly goes into estere
09:41next we're going to be talking about
09:42language degrees at the associate level
09:44and this is one that's
09:45okay but it's not amazing usually people
09:48who graduate with degrees in
09:50languages that want to become
09:52translators for instance will get it as
09:54side degree so they will double major or
09:56many translators will just learn the
09:58language on their own and then do
09:59specialized training and get specialized
10:02in order to become a translator so a lot
10:04of the time doing formal training when
10:06it comes to learning a language
10:07in my opinion especially if it's the
10:09only degree you get is not a good idea
10:11so this one is going to go into
10:14deter not as bad as some of the other
10:15ones but still not very good
10:17next we're going to be talking about
10:18liberal arts majors and this one might
10:21surprise you a little bit but i didn't
10:22put it in f tier right so in my opinion
10:25liberal arts is very interesting first
10:27and it teaches you what are known as
10:29soft skills okay so soft skills are
10:31things that are kind of intangible right
10:33it's not like mathematics where it's
10:36you either get the problem right or you
10:37don't these are things like formulating
10:40critical thinking giving speeches and
10:43doing a liberal arts degree will educate
10:45you in these things and that can be
10:47directly and indirectly when it comes to
10:49your salary but still for the most part
10:51if it's the only degree you get it's not
10:53going to be the best
10:54this one is going to go into d tier next
10:57on the list is going to be mathematics
11:00at the associate level and mathematics
11:02skills in general are very sought after
11:04so if you are good at math you know your
11:06way around a spreadsheet for instance
11:07there are a lot of people out there that
11:08are going to want to hire you but at the
11:10associate level it still has the
11:11problems of being a little bit
11:12intangible and impractical
11:14and so overall this one is going to go
11:18next on the list is going to be physical
11:20science degrees so this is going to be
11:22any type of science that is not related
11:24to living beings so we're going to be
11:25talking about physics and chemistry for
11:28now unfortunately at the associate level
11:31amazing also not one of the worst i
11:33would say this is really middle
11:34of the road a lot of the time with
11:35science related degrees you're going to
11:37have to get at least a master's or a
11:38doctorate to get into those really good
11:41and so for that reason this one is going
11:44next on the list we're going to be
11:45talking about psychology degrees at the
11:49this is pretty obvious i think i don't
11:51think they're going to let you do
11:52very many things when it comes to you
11:54know helping someone with their mental
11:56state somebody who's
11:57you know maybe emotionally unstable at
11:59an associate level you know the human
12:01brain might be the most
12:02complicated thing in the universe and it
12:04requires tons of training
12:06for you to be able to help people out
12:08with their mental and emotional issues
12:10so at the associate level there's just
12:12not going to be that many options for
12:13you here so this one is clearly going to
12:16into f tier same with the next one on
12:18the list which is going to be social
12:19science degrees so i guess
12:21you know psychology does fall under this
12:24according to the u.s census bureau they
12:26actually separate these two
12:28but another one would be sociology uh
12:31and again very interesting stuff but
12:33unfortunately especially at the
12:36just not a lot of jobs out there you're
12:37not going to find a lot of opportunities
12:39and so this one is going to go into
12:41ftier next one on the list is going to
12:43be technology related degrees and there
12:46are tons of opportunities out there even
12:48at the associate level
12:49for technology related careers first of
12:52all there's a ton of different
12:52technician type jobs where you're
12:54basically going to be running
12:55diagnostics on different equipment
12:57repairing the equipment when it breaks
12:59down and just helping people to learn
13:00how to use the equipment in general
13:02these types of jobs in my opinion are
13:04not going to go away anytime soon just
13:05because of the fact that
13:06technology is being further and further
13:08integrated into the workforce
13:10there's going to be more and more need
13:12for technicians in the future so i think
13:13this job market is just going to grow
13:15on top of that more and more people are
13:17getting into coding even at the
13:19associate level they're trying to skip
13:21going for a bachelor's
13:22and there's more and more options out
13:24there for people who want to learn how
13:25to code or do you know information
13:27technology management for instance
13:29other types of skills like that database
13:32things like that at you know sometimes
13:34six months sometimes one year
13:36and so a lot of the time there are
13:37either certifications or alternative
13:39methods of getting into these careers
13:41so at the associate level or the one to
13:44there are a ton of opportunities for
13:46this one this one clearly
13:48goes into s tier before you leave check
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