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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe people have realized how hard it is to get a job with that degree. [/quote]

The idea that college is trade school seems to be one of the most immutable of the lower-middle class misconceptions. [/quote]

Most of the kids are not trust fund kids, so they need jobs.

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If they really needed jobs, they'd go into a trade, get an ASN/Rad Tech/Construction Management associates, or do the many other options you have before getting a degree. They are lazy and want to delay working for four years by partying and BSing through school.[/quote]

Average salary is higher with college degree for long term and also more opportunities.
College + job is the best.  
By the way, yes most kids really need jobs.  
What are you trying to say??[/quote]
The kids of this generation are much dumber than previous ones and shouldn't be getting degrees. Colleges are lowering their standards to get them to pass (B is the new C!) and many of these students should be working before ever even thinking of going into a collegiate institution. Many have no respect for education, but somehow also want 4.0s and some even want to go to grad schools with a terrible consumerist mindset about University. If your objective is money, [b]there's so many jobs out there that do not require a degree that you can use as a launchpad to a successful career.[/b][/quote]

What are these jobs?[/quote]
Most of the associates you can get in non-liberal arts fields are directly practical and qualify you for a job. I didn’t take this path but of the people I know in them include construction/construction project managers, Policy planners, forestry and conservation, nursing, radiation tech, dentist assistant, etc. I’m sure there’s others, but these are the type of careers my friends growing up went into with community college.[/quote]

Those are all jobs that cap at a MC lifestyle for the most part (nurses can make more).  These aren’t really leading to much of a career…I mean what is the career progression of a dentist assistant? [/quote]
Most people live a middle or low class lifestyle? It’d be beneficial for a significant amount of students to gtfo and start at an associates and start a living. I’m not talking about your students at UVA or UNC, but students at lower tier institutions where the ROI really isn’t worth it.

Also what’s with career progression? For a long time, people retired the same job that they started with. Not everyone needs to be a project manager or director of [x].[/quote]
DP, but this is very classest. Only the most educated and talented (read Wealthiest students) have access to college now?[/quote]

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