I’ve been stating this for 20 years-—college is a waste and only serves to indoctrinate. Learn a trade——college is a waste of money!
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We’ve dug ourselves a hole.
Fingers can be pointed in a lot of directions — government, high schools, universities, parents, students, society, social media, etc. etc.
It’s not a simple problem, and it is a problem that needs some sort of solution. Telling young people to “suck it up and work hard” is, in my opinion, not a well thought out strategy to solving this.
I can’t blame colleges, really.
When I was 20 or 21 I was *SO* much smarter than my parents and professors, to say nothing of any potential bosses! What decrepit old dinosaurs, grasping at the dying remains of how things were. I was the future, the world would fall at my feet once exposed to my utter brilliance and visionary genius!
Needless to say, there was a sharp learning curve ahead :-)
They have no work ethic either, What do you mean I have to start at the bottom and work my way up, you know how smart I am, look at my papers, they say I am smart... Wheres my check and when is my break, oh I need to leave early today to play with my friends, what about my raise.
The participation trophy generation.
Those Women’s Studies and such degrees are worthless.
I have a cousin that has a PhD in History.
He’s a long haul trucker, make boo-coo dough!..............
DEI Score? Wazzat? Recent college grads prefer to start at the top and be around minstrels and queer culture- I guess the workplace is apposed to be more of a singing and dancing đź•ş place than a workplace. Ok.
Not just colleges.
Public schools, parents, and media.
They should all start with my first real job boss as I was working while attending college. When he hired me at a bank he said I came with great recommendations and was attending a reputable university. After I said I was majoring in accounting minoring in finance he said well we start here at the bottom and in this case the bottom is the file room in the basement and at minimum wage. I was a tad stunned but realized I needed a job and others already there knew what they were doing.
After a short time I was promoted out of the file area to part time teller and other duties as needed. Not long after I got the job I came into work wearing a slightly pastel pink shirt. He hauled me into his office and asked: you a commie (this was in 63). I said no, why? He said look around out there and note all the men here have white shirts. He said take your ass over to the mens shop across the street and come back wearing a white shirt. BTW, that is your lunch time.
I worked there five years. Ended up running the night processing department and picking up programming skills. Above all learned that career progress is earned, not given.
For my entire career life, I was directed by results driven leaders. I tried to instill that concept for those who worked for me. I did not care if you had a PHd or a high school diploma, what counted was the numbers at the end of the day. I noted over time there has been an erosion in the principle of accomplishment leading to rewards. We have devolved into a complete entitlement society i.e. I am entitled to that six figure income or that promotion or whatever. Happy to now be retired watching the circus and hope I don’t have to pick up after the circus parade passes by.
Even k-12 is.
Got kids fresh out of highschool demanding 25 bucks an hour for a entry level job.
I just say I started off at McDonald’s for 2.85 an hour. I suggest you get some skills under your belt before going for the big bucks.
IMO-—THE COLLEGES ARE JUST THE LAST IN THE LINE-—
THESE SNOWFLAKES HAVE BEEN RAISED ON A DIET OF “PARTICIPATION TROPHIES” FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
Small business owners are on the exterminate list. The Deep State likes big business only.
I attended my daughter’s graduation this last summer…incredible delusions were expressed by people from the imaginary world of academia.
Luckily she is well grounded in reality.
She is working as a nurse at really good hospital, exactly what she has worked her butt off to do.
She is not lucky, just worked hard and now she is working as planned and expected.
Nursing degrees are in extreme demand.
A lobotomy is quicker and cheaper than college and you come out smarter.
These younger generations are being told to work hard but they clearly see inept token employees given money. They see politicians exempt themselves from such restrictions as insider trading and say to themselves, "I'm not becoming a slave to pay for that."
Anyone who goes to university with no clear plan for learning a particular subject to a high degree of mastery, a subject that points clearly to a particular profession or well-defined trade, is making a mistake.
Anyone going with the idea of "having fun" in college is likewise probably making a mistake.
Unless a high school senior approaches college like a job, with expectations of work every night and on weekends, with maybe a night off a week, is making a mistake to go to college.
I saw so many lazy, spoiled kids with silly majors, take so much retirement money from their poor parents, only to piss it away by partying for a year then flunking out... interfering with serious kids' attempts to work and progress in school. It was infuriating to watch.
Too many of them are Tik-Tok addicts and obsess about their mental health. They believe their “mental health” affords them concessions. One employee wanted to wear headphones all day, needed breaks to cry, needed to come to work late and needed additional mental health days. They had a laundry list of maladies including Autism. Nothing could protect them from the 90 day clause and they were gone in a month. Then they are crying about a lack of jobs.