Posted on 01/06/2019 6:54:13 PM PST by vannrox
The newest darling of the Left was indoctrinated at Boston University.
I don’t want to learn about the pronoun xe. I dont want to know how it is pronounced, or what is in the crotch of those who use such a pronoun.
Got a Gen Z cousin. At 20 years old he’s married to a good girl and gets paid almost as much as I do in the construction business. I’m quite proud of him.
The idea that everyone should go to college is wrong. And not just a little wrong, it’s seriously wrong.
You could see it coming from a mile away. Newly-minted Engineers with their shiny new degrees could not extricate themselves from a cardboard box!
Yeah, I’m old and slow, finding it harder to squeeze into tight spaces, and generally prone to the occasional full on brain lock, but I can still run circles around these guys.
I’m a big proponent of skipping college for a trade. One of mine at 19 got his CDL and loves his driving job.
He’s not making as much as his aerospace engineer brother but he’s right in line with his two sisters.
Best part, they all have jobs they enjoy and are helping people.
Newly minted engineers couldn't perform BASIC preventative maintenance on the machinery they designed.
Ping for post # 7.
“Newly-minted Engineers with their shiny new degrees could not extricate themselves from a cardboard box!”
You have a point?
You are exactly right - and their value has been debased by a bunch of people who have no business having degrees getting them, and the debasing of the curriculum itself for which the degrees are awarded. I spent a lot of time and effort on my degree and believe it benefited me, but they are handing them out to a lot of people who have no business having them - makes me feel like I wasted my time if those people are getting the same resume enhancement who don't know jack squat about anything. Even many of us with degrees would in the present day not be at all impressed because someone else has one - it used to be a sign of professionalism, knowledge, and maturity to have a degree - boy that shouldn't be anything that can be assumed now - maybe it never should have - but certainly not now with academia having been overtaken by nutcases "teaching" people in class.
Generation Z can run rings around the Millennials regardless of whether or not they go to college if they are willing to just show up to work and do their jobs...and education policies need to change to put vocational training at least on equal footing with college.
I have met quite a few millennials who are engineers. They went to college, of course, and now they’re doing quite well. Electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering are all in demand.
Other well-paid jobs also require a college or graduate degree. Want to be an actuary? A school psychologist? A database administrator? There are colleges that will give you the credentials you need to get started.
The millennial engineers I have met all have a lot of machine-shop experience, and know a fair amount about repairing and rebuilding machines and vehicles. This is why they went into engineering in the first place.
Yes! Things have come full circle. Old farts like me couldn’t buy a job back in 08-12. Suddenly, my experience is in demand. Yay PDJT!
My masters degree is in correcting bachelors degree engineer mistakes.
Look, I’m in it every day. Besides the country guys that grew up working on shit, these kids are clueless. Quite sad.
I love my brother, but he is getting his mechanical eng. Degree and dude can’t sling a wrench, worse, has no interest in it. So how the hell can you expect to design something that WORKS FOR YOU
Generation X (my generation, BTW) were latch-key kids, parents were working. We were the last generation that experienced a true, independent childhood, playing in the forest, biking or hiking for miles without a helmet, not wearing a seat-belt.
We were risk-takers, we grew up under Reagan. We created our own games and such.
2039 ???
Good grief Charlie Brown...that’s only 20 years away...
I’ll be 90 and a great grandmother to teenagers.. :)
I’m a college grad and so are my children...My grandchildren are in college now or already graduated...none of them have taken idiot classes...
will their children be even smarter ???
Industrial controls electrician or welder? Take your pick. $100K / year.
College degree absence is prefered.
Yup...I skipped college, career, and just skipped straight to getting married and starting a family.
Soooo much happier than my old friends who are ten years out of high school and just starting their lives.
I did great 08-15. The 6 years before that were rough, and things are ok for now, but I just need one more good financial crisis.....
Come on bankers, churn out another batch of liar's loans. Run up those CRA scores so you'll look good. Sponsor some stadiums and build new headquarters buildings.
I’d go with electrician. Some of those welding gasses can be bad for you.
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