Stofsk wrote:I think there's also a sense that you *have* to go to uni and get a degree and get a 'good' 'job', and the net effect of this is a lot of people get degrees which don't really matter to the jobs they go for or don't prepare them for whatever career they embark upon. Or in the worst case scenario, the degree is not only massively useless but also results in a considerable amount of debt.
Meanwhile the trades get less and less people into them which means supply/demand make relatively simple jobs command high prices and people wonder 'why the fuck did i waste years of my life and even more years paying off a debt when I could have just learnt how to be a tradie and fucking not owe a cent to anyone'. Not that I'm bitter or anything. I'm sure my lit major can do something. Somehow.
And here I believed I was the only one who thought these heretical thoughts about the overvaluation placed upon higher education by just about everybody.
Stofsk you are my hero.
I've always maintained that if the job description does not specify the focus of a degree, but just says that any ol' bachelor's degree will do, maybe that job doesn't really require someone college educated to do it?
Of course as we all know high school diplomas aren't worth the paper they're printed on, but maybe we could try changing that rather than shoving everyone possible through college? But then they wouldn't get as much tuition money so fuck that noise.
Darksi4190 wrote:maybe this is just societal indoctrination talking, but I honestly don't see how someone could be fulfilled by spending their life mopping floors or flipping burgers.
Well those types of jobs are probably not a career, no. But does that mean they should get shit wages and be looked down upon by others and be a job that
good people just wouldn't do? (Unless you're a high school kid looking for part time work flipping burgers; that gets a pass)
But there's more to manual labor than janitors and fast food. How many schools actually offer up the trades as a viable choice after graduation in place of COLLEGE COLLEGE COLLEGE YOU'RE A FAILURE WITHOUT COLLEGE?