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working blue collar making serious coin from vocational technical schools
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owning tens of thousands in student loans with a worthless college liberal arts degree that gets you a job working next to a guy who's got a GED.
This is the sad reality of many young Americans....even within my own family, sisterinlaw got a scholarship to Syracuse....THANK GOD....4 years down the pipe...a degree in communications or some BS....worth what I crapped this morning...she's now working as a medical receptionist trying to figure out how to get started with at least an associates in nursing...thing is now adulthood has caught up and she has bills to pay so she can't just stop working to do things right in school.....this is where college has done more harm than good...yeah she has an education...but if we talking money, that means very little...and unfortunately for most money makes the world go round...
Not everyone who goes to college makes it out on the other side cashing out for what they put in....most come out on the other side with crazy debt and nothing but a stupid degree they might as well wipe their **** with.
Still I would want my kids to go to college and get educated, but I'll be involved in that process to give them the help most kids who make wrong choices don't have...and if I notice my kid has a trait (artist, dancer, acting, etc) I'm gonna nurture the **** out of that trait and not do what a lot of parents do which is crush their creative outlets for the worth of a college degree.