why tf do people keep going to college?

submitted by andrewtate1 from self.AskSaidIt

4-6 years of stress and bank drain just to see chad mogging tf out of you partying and fucking jb stacies then getting hired by his dad with a 300k/year starting salary while you end up hundreds of thousands in debt with no connections and no job

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It’s the new high school diploma.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I kind of felt that way when I was young, but I'm glad I at least got a four-year degree. I went to a cheap school and was a co-op student, so I did OK.

College actually taught me things, too. Don't discount that part of it. I sucked at programming a computer when I started college. Never had the discipline or the time to learn that stuff until professors forced me to.

[–]NastyWetSmear 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your experience after university and mine were very different.

[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because since the 70s big busiz and big govt decided that we needed to get ahead in STEM, and quite literally told all teachers to push it. They were told to denigrate blue collar job as only idiots do them, and straight up lie about the pay.

You would be SHOCKED with how much a LOT of blue collar jobs get paid.. here's a few: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/highest-paying-blue-collar-jobs

Depending on the city, even trash men are making 75k+. You get into electrical, carpentry, etc and you will be making BANK, 6 figure in many cases. We are so short handed in some of these fields we have to import just to get work done.