Posted on 12/24/2017 12:38:47 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Not every college student I have ever taught was really college material, motivated enough to succeed, or even enjoyed being in college. Some could have benefited from attending a trade school or a technical college
A Lucrative Technical School or a Four-Year College Degree? “The Ideologies that killed more than 100 million people last century are being praised at our universities today.” - Turning Point USA
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find a skilled technician to fix anything. Everything is disposable – something breaks down, let’s buy a new one. There are fewer and fewer technical and trade schools and, even if there were more, American students are not interested in learning a trade. They have been conditioned by society and by their parents that, unless they get a four-year college degree, anything else is not worth their effort and time.
The educational cabal mentality of college for all is misguided, expensive and stupid.
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It depends. If the job application process requires you go through the HR department and the minimum requirements say you need a degree, then you won’t be considered no matter how qualified you are or how good your references are. Now if you have a personal connection to leadership that lets you bypass HR, you have an excellent chance of landing the job.
My professional life was proof that if you love what you are doing, you never work a day of your life. Follow that dream, kid.
“In Wisconsin engineers start at 100-150K and that’s just for the run of the mill guy ...”
Look it up on Indeed. The median for an engineer in Wisconsin is just under $81K and that is across the board, not a starting salary. The top median for an engineer is $154K in WI.
I have a niece with a bachelors in environmental science (whatever that is). She works in the garden shop at Home Depot.
He will NEVER be without work if he takes up electrical work....
There is more than one guy like that who had his name on the side of two dozen contractor vans by the time he was 40. If you’re good, and run a good business, customers will come.
A tech degree in coveted industries will pay better dividends in the future and offer the opportunity to break out into a career as your own boss building your own company. University Eduction is way way way overrated and not worth the cost. Trust me, I have a degree in Finance and wish I can go back and do what my old man suggested who was a machinist: Learn a tech skill then go to Uni if you want to explore it further. The ole man was right!
If I had to do it over again....technical degree/skill of some sort.
Most personally satisfying gig I ever had was as a framing carpenter as a teenager. Then I was the chief operator of a privately-owned public service for 30 years. And I always played in bands.
That’s what we’ve always told our boys. He listened!
It worked for us......so there really wasn’t any transition for them....still isn’t as they’ve all had kids who also ‘play’.....
In fact one year my son used a red nosed flashlight and went out into the field behind their development where it was dark ....raised his head up and down like Rudolf....while his wife told the kids they had to hurry to bed....
It was hysterical seeing those youngens run to the window and see Rudolphs nose bobbing......you never saw kids run to bed so fast in your life...laughing all the way!
Down the road, both a physician and a plumber. Same size lots, same size homes. One goes fishing on weekends during the summer; one goes skiing during the winter, the other is on call.
Tech school or apprenticeship........I’d stay away from a union sponsored apprenticeship (other than UAW) since you will then become an indentured subject of such union........
Both. First technical/vocational training in something you like, in order to support yourself.
Then pursue further training, including college degree(s) if you like your field, or want to change it.
If THAT were the case there would be a lot of folks with helmets and heads melted to the wire.
Kind of a different kind of “strange” fruit.
Let me guess: You did not go to college.
She must have sucked at it. My son in law graduated with the same degree plus a $60k a year job. To start.
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