Everybody wants to wear a flight suit, big watch, Ray-bans. What they don’t want to do, is spend the long hours studying aeronautics and calculus, join the military, go to flight school and all that jazz. Everybody wants to wear scrubs and a stethoscope and be called “Doc”. What they don’t want to do, is spend the long hours studying biology and chemistry and cell division, get accepted to medical school, residency, etc.
Everybody seems to want to start out at the top, too. Notice all the demands for set aside slots on board of director or CEO positions or whatever. Strangely enough they are silent about Plumbers or Roofers or Ditchdiggers.
It’s a Mystery!
We need more plumbers, electricians, ditch diggers, and roofers. Those are real jobs and most only require a good vocational school.
When I graduated from high school in the 70’s, all of the boys wanted to go into those jobs. People did what they could afford.
Now it’s all about prestige. They never give a thought about how they will pay for it.
Most of my instructors hated the kids coming to college now. They didn’t want to do the work. She said high school doesn’t prepare them for college or life. They wanted to come to class when they wanted to, turn in work late, ask for extra credit when they didn’t do the original work, and on and on. They were lazy. I asked one instructor what was wrong with those kids. She said they were all going to school on their parent’s dime and didn’t really care. It was all a party to them.