OT: What's your job/career??

[Alneyan]

Thanks for all your answers. I guess the Bachelor degrees are only useful to get to higher degrees in France; for example, there are some courses with a very high reputation at five years after High School, where companies may actually recruit students before they have their grade. That is the exception, and definitively nowhere near the general rule (which is: get your degree, and do something else on your own, will you?).

Of course, since there is no real difficulty in getting a university degree, no job would need any such qualification; if you have nothing better to do, you could spend ten years to get your B.A. here. And since most of our schools do not have actual tution fees, you do not have to have your own personal wealth to stay for a very long while in our universities.

Some students do have to work Deccan, especially in Paris, or if you have to rent your room near the university. The other solution is to take a specific loan, which may be a very good idea if you are studying in one of these schools actually giving you a useful diploma on its own.

[Mephisto]

You can't get certain jobs without University in Germany (like Medicine, Law/Judge, engineer). University is the "best" graduation you can get and companies expect it. You have nearly 0% chance to get higher end jobs without it.
I agree that some people study at university without a clear plan for their future but since you know have to pay a fee after you hit certain time-thresholds that number of people has decreased.