answer:I’m not sure where this misconception comes from, but bachelor’s degrees are not all that common. I work in the HR department for a company that employs 6,000, and I recruit every day. I’d say at least 80 % of the people I contact every day don’t have a degree. The only time EVERYONE has a degree is when I’m recruiting for an upper-level management position, and in that case, the candidates do b/c they’ve acquired it in their adventure to the positions they’ve been working in! Even then, some don’t. A part of me feels like there must be a very subtle marketing effort to get people to think they are the only one without a degree, but from what I’ve seen, it truly isn’t near as common as people believe.