Always bothers me to see people denigrate education, why Americans don't push it, don't insist on kids doing homework, etc. Without education, they put their kids on lower income, lower acheivement path. It is a universal solution to get education, to learn your way out of poverty, yet we have this mindset underway in America to do just the opposite. And the result? Many of our kids will make less than we did, far less.
Doesn't help that we've invited through H1B and other programs, and allowed illegally, tens of millions of people to take our jobs, underbid our work, drive down our wages, close out whole industries from us.
And doesn't help that we don't have apprentice or work-related education.
So many ills.
Except what is called education these days is mostly leftist indoctrination and largely useless degrees, especially anything ending in "studies"...Black, Womyn's, Gender (all 57)...
If I may ask, what do you do?
I am an engineer and now a manager, I don’t know anyone making that kind of money with an engineering degree in manufacturing.
Over my career, I have trained a great many young college grads who will never break that kind of money. Never. Many with advanced degrees. Granted, living is cheap in the midwest.
If I had to do it again, I might have gone into plumbing. One summer I almost did, but wanted to full fill my scholarship. Now I work swing shift managing a crew of about 70, but if I was a plumber I’d have my own shop by now and deal with less poop.