Group of Buffoons who run colleges would fit right in with a Gulliver’s Travels fairytale.
Good for the kids that want to get out into the world and earn some cash while learning skills that will set them up in a well paying career for life.
Wait ‘till the little snowflakes find out trade school means you don’t sit in front a computer screen every day and most trades require physical effort.....they may change their minds.
Having said that I’m proud I worked in a trade related field......it allowed me to retire at 59 1/2.
Am I rich? No but I am comfortable.....and for me that damn good enough.
Good news.
Short of being able to employ all those useless degrees teaching more to have useless degrees, (like the explosion of Sociology and Psych degrees in the 70s), they have to create a ‘need’ for their services.
Not likely with the fringe elements of wokeism, and the youngsters have awakened to the concept of earning money while apprenticing a trade, or just going to work.
The value of a Bachelor’s degree has been watered down pretty badly since I got mine in the 70s, no matter the field, because so much other stuff gets shoved in to graduate, even in STEM fields.
My father and uncles insisted I learned a trade as well as getting a STEM degree.
I can build a world crossing boat from scratch, as well as design the software to allow idiots to create web sites.
Good trend, most college degrees are way overpriced.
Smart kids!
For every 5 who retire i.e. the people who actually keep the country running in a practical way (mechanics, electricians, plumbers, heavy equipment operators & on & on) they are being replaced by ONE person.
For example:
If the goal is to make a living without a boatload of debt, I have talked to several of the HVAC techs who service our units. No experience: employers will put them through training at no $$ cost to trainee. Experienced: $80K+ a year & that was before COVID. No trouble finding a job - even transferring to another state is no problem.
Mr. Mabel, if pieces of paper made one more intelligent in
the US economic structure, mail clerks would be sitting on top
of the world. Your reasoning is ridiculous.
Mr. McGuire suggesting to Dustin the future is plastic would be much easier to swallow, as well as, much less expensive (perhaps).
From 2018:
Trump and Ratzenberger on Trade Schools:
https://youtu.be/QRaKt—jM2s
40 years ago, that kind of talk would have been unthinkable by most people.
To say a degree wasn’t really necessary. You would have been scolded by your elders, well, by most of them.
Nowadays, this is the correct way to think for most people, unless you really, really want that major course of study. Different than saying you are dimply eager to move out of the family home.
From 2011:
The jobs tide threatens an American industrial tsunami (John Ratzenberger)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2671304/posts
I think more parents are talking their kids out of desiring to go- explaining that it’s mostly nothing but moronic liberal indoctrination these days
Of course. Someone has to support all those professors and administrators, and if it takes being a quarter mil in debt for the first half of their working life to do that, well, it's their patriotic duty. All the university studies say so.
The lockdowns didn't do anything more than accelerate an already ongoing process - brick-and-mortar universities are going the way of brick-and-mortar stores. Both will require fewer employees.
Money is a huge issue. But even for the more affordable colleges, who wants to spend that much to go to an insane asylum? That is what colleges have turned into.
Remove all of the government money (including government loans) from schools and the free market will tell us the true value of degrees from college and/or trade school.
And now these poor guys are going to be competing with the 10s of millions illegals and the more millions Biden is letting walk right in.
I write this today having earned both a bachelor’s degree with a 4.0 GPA and a masters degree with a 3.7 GPA while working full time. And I can tell you that I learned very little for all of the expense and effort.
I was 25 years into a career before the roof came crashing in in April of 2009 and my company ceased operations. O’Vomit stood at the lectern and told us to “educate ourselves” which I did. I paid for the associated degree in cash, the BA got me into $30 grand in debt.
A company that I had applied to three times in the past, once with a high school diploma and once with an associates’ roundly ignored everything I sent in. When I applied again with a BA that the ink wasn’t dry on, they couldn’t get me in for an interview fast enough, and I was hired two days later. I didn’t learn a damned thing with my BA, but they refused to even consider you without a 4 year degree.
I can absolutely, unequivocally tell you what I paid (actually, AM PAYING) $30 grand for a piece of paper.
My masters I learned a little, but I had to get the MAS or get left far behind as so many now are getting advanced degrees for a job that required none of it and if I hadn’t gotten it, I’d get thrown right into file 13 as a result.
Good news. Always work for qualified tradesmen.