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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We created this problem ourselves.

You can't push every graduating HS senior to go to college and then get offended in 4 years when they graduate college and refuse manual labor jobs because they feel overqualified for those jobs.

Maybe we shouldn't have vilified service industry jobs for the last 20+ years and looked down on those holding them as uneducated and lesser than.  [/quote]

College-for-all was promoted all the way back to the GI Bill, and it was then and still is a fact that jobs for college-educated people typically pay more than blue collar jobs.  Sure, there are rich plumbers who make more than many college-educated people and so on, but they are in the minority - they are typically folks who own the business and have several crews, as opposed to the guy on the plumbing crew.

But from there you took a hard right into the ditch to say blue collar jobs are "vilified" while also ignoring how in the last 20 years, the college educated workforce has been completely vilified by rural America, mostly because of grossly distorted rhetoric from folks like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage, playing through radios in trucks or on shop floors all across rural America.  From them you have all of your deranged lore about millions of "useless degrees in womens studies and underwater basketweaving," and how if you go to college you will be indoctrinated into becoming a communist and so on.

The only person I ever heard denigrate blue collar work was my mom when I was growing up, who kept saying I'd end up a ditch digger if I didn't do my homework.  She's a dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporter by the way.[/quote]

I'm the only college educated person in my family and I make less than my siblings. I make $75,500 as a teacher. My brother is a bartender/manager and he makes $35k salary + tips, which means he typically makes $110-125k/yr. My sister worked her way up to a District Manager at Victoria's Secret and she makes $110k/year salary + bonuses. Almost all of my cousins also make more than I do. They are some kind of lineman or technician at Verizon, general contractor, plumber, and two do roadwork/paving.

The only thing that helped me is that I received nearly a full ride to college. I graduated with less than $4k in student loans that I worked to pay off during my first year of teaching. But a lot of my colleagues who have substantial student loan debt live very paycheck-to-paycheck.  [/quote]

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