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Dear Young People: College Is Lame. Get
a Job.

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Posted By: jeffinitely, 1/11/2023 5:07:58 AM

Young people, are you ready for success? Want a career in a rewarding field that will lead to a fulfilling life? Don’t go to college. Be an electrician, be a plumber, be a welder, be a carpenter — hell, learn to code — but for heaven’s sake and for that matter, your own, don’t go to college. I know some of you are months or even years away from high school graduation, but: Don’t. Go. To. College

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Great advice for this generation of high school and collegte-aged kids!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: ARKfamily 1/11/2023 6:18:30 AM (No. 1375636)
There is never anything wrong with educating oneself. The statement "college is lame" is a cautionary piece of advice. College is lame if you are stockpiling debt. College is lame if you are taking classes that have no benefit of getting a job. College is lame if you are listening to advice from professors, assistants etc. that lead you down an immoral way of life. In a nutshell, take classes provide a skill!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: F15 Gork 1/11/2023 7:14:03 AM (No. 1375663)
The only reason to go to college today is if you play football.......
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Reply 3 - Posted by: southernboy 1/11/2023 8:52:49 AM (No. 1375774)
A local Jr. college here in Mississippi has just completed a new addition where diesel engineering is being taught...hands on. They are also planning to expand the curriculum to small aircraft maintenance and repair. This will include certificates for piloting small aircraft. If I were a young man I would be standing in line to apply!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Freedom1 1/11/2023 8:55:38 AM (No. 1375777)
My grandson goes to a rural college in western Georgia. Freshman year, he had a mandatory Ethics class. It was chock full of convoluted "values" designed to muddy the right vs wrong that we were all brought up with. I asked him if he believed all this stuff, and he replied insofar as it takes to pass the class he does. The fact that it is required and will have to be learned, even if not agreed with, is enough to cause harm. Get a trade!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 1/11/2023 8:56:46 AM (No. 1375778)
There are some technical fields where years of study are required. But most jobs in retailing and industry were, and can be, handled fine by what USED TO be a high school diploma. Of course, today's HS spend more time on anti-American lies than on basic math, history and georgraphy, so perhaps large number with HS diplomas aren't quite ready for a job in business or industry. My engineering degree took six years, six hard, challenging years, to obtain a BS and MS. Other technical and scientific areas take time, too. Most college students are wasting their time, and getting enslaved by huge debt by living far beyond their means.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: privateer 1/11/2023 9:11:54 AM (No. 1375800)
I'm catching on to this. FTA: As James Earl Jones said in Practicum of Dreams, “You’re seeing a whole team of psychiatrists, aren’t you?”
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Reply 7 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 1/11/2023 9:39:57 AM (No. 1375834)
Not colleges, they are social justice factories.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: red1066 1/11/2023 9:46:07 AM (No. 1375841)
Sixty years ago, getting a college degree was worth it because companies were willing to hire you even if your degree didn't pertain to their business. Starting in the 70's that all started to change. If one didn't have a degree that directly pertained to the business of the company, you didn't get the job. One either had to get a specific degree or you were s out of luck. Businesses wanted people who could start doing the job immediately. No training required. Only technical schools or what was once called Vo-Techs could get people started in that direction. Getting a college degree became a status symbol. It didn't matter what the degree was in, if you had a college degree, you were automatically considered more intelligent than those who didn't go to college by many. While I'm proud to have received my college degree for a number of reasons, I ended up doing work that didn't require a degree in a field completely different from what my degree was in.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: udanja99 1/11/2023 10:01:50 AM (No. 1375861)
Great advice! My daughter opted not to go to college but took VoTech classes in cosmetology during her senior year of high school. She graduated on a Saturday, already certified as a cosmetologist, and went to work full time on the following Monday. No college debt, she has been self supporting ever since and now owns her own business.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jen103143 1/11/2023 10:34:51 AM (No. 1375898)
My son is an English professor in a NY university. He has lamented that most of his first semester consists of teaching basic grammar to students; totally unprepared for the heavy reading of Dracula, etc. Many high schools are not preparing students for life outside of school, let alone, college.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: EmilioCavaradosi 1/11/2023 11:31:09 AM (No. 1375978)
If you have an ovewhelming passion for some subject—science, writing, music, etc.—by all means go to a good college that teaches it, but don't just "go to college" to get a worthless degree.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: joew9 1/11/2023 12:42:04 PM (No. 1376032)
A dozen years ago I went to a friend's daughter's college graduation at a very big state college that was mostly liberal arts. There were over 1000 students crowding the floor of the big auditorium. The master of ceremonies began calling the individual degrees up to the stage to get their diplomas. 2 chemistry, 1 computer engineer, 4 biomedical, etc. After two hours I began to believe we were going to be there for a week. Finally they asked all the psychology majors to stand. It appeared that everyone on the floor stood up. You couldn't see anyone seated who had already been given their diplomas. Congratulations were acknowledged on those standing. They were told to march out the door in the back where the psychology diplomas would be handed out. And it was over. And with that more than a thousand young people were given a diploma that qualified them to do jobs they had as teenagers before entering college. And it only cost the tax payers from several hundred million to perhaps a billion dollars.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: MickTurn 1/11/2023 1:18:31 PM (No. 1376089)
How many former college graduates are flipping burgers at McDees?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 1/11/2023 2:02:15 PM (No. 1376128)
Before the burden of college debt and before the indoctrination of freshmen, it was worth going. But now, I am more inclined to fund my grandkids in a skill that will pay the bills, not create the bills.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Aubreyesque 1/11/2023 4:39:07 PM (No. 1376223)
There are some occupations that will not look at you unless you do have a college education...like medicine. And that includes veterinary medicine. There are some lower level positions that only require a 2 yr degree/training and sometimes just being able to pass a certification test, but they are swiftly being moved into minimum wage pay. Its one thing to say you dont have to stay working for a fast food joint, but when your nursing/medical tech staff are on the same economic level, how arrogant are you to imply they are no better than someone who gives you fries with that. Not everyone WANTS to become a doctor. Way too many of them as it is... Anyway, what Im trying to say is maybe the schools that offer things like science and techical degrees should stop offering liberal arts and general studies. Spend the money on improving the training programs. Form alliances with various companies to offer internships to students. The first question that should be answered by the university is "if we cant find them a job in the fields we offer, then we wont offer a degree in it."
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Reply 16 - Posted by: SycamoreHills 1/11/2023 5:41:50 PM (No. 1376287)
My Dominican neighbor. who dropped out of college in his junior year, said it best:"Education is free. It is the degrees that are expensive!'
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Reply 17 - Posted by: mifla 1/12/2023 5:46:30 AM (No. 1376625)
College is not for everyone, even if they can afford it.
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