Posted on 06/11/2024 10:00:47 AM PDT by CFW
The higher-education industry is having a bad decade.
Some problems are obvious: With wokeness and campus unrest, colleges and universities have lost some of their mystique.
They’ll tell you to “follow the science,” right before they tell you that men can get pregnant.
Violent antisemitic riots haven’t done much to burnish their image, nor have the limp responses to those riots from many university administrations.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous. Mission accomplished!
Then there’s the economics of it: The reward of college was supposed to be a good job at the end.
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Younger people are catching on.
A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that Gen Z is becoming “the toolbelt generation”: To a degree unprecedented in recent times, younger people are looking at the trades.
Trades are flourishing as college enrollment shrinks, per the report, which found that “the number of students enrolled in vocational-focused community colleges rose 16% last year to its highest level … since 2018.”
Kids studying construction trades rose 23% during the five-year period, while those training for HVAC and vehicle repair careers increased 7%.
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Take away football and basketball from the Power 5 conferences and the schools would soon dry up like a grape becoming a raisin.
The richest and most successful fellow at the reunion for the class of ‘45 was a garbage collector in Kansas City.
Things worked out but I learned about half-way through the career real satisfaction is your own business.
I found out that meant having to stomach (and pay) lawyers, accountants, an HR consulting firm, und-und-und. Couldn't stand those people. Gave it up and went back to work for somebody who could. Probably added 20 years to my life.
Blue collar work is ok, but have any of you worked all day in the heat of summer hanging duct work or sweating pipes together? It ain’t that great let me tell you.
I had my own business for about 20 years. Made a lot of money, had a lot of stress.
Finally went to work for someone else. But before that the money let me pay off my mortgage in 8 years.
Indeed, trade schools here in N GA are booming.
But try to get into UGA, even as an honor student.
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