Reply to Please be kind to us with “average “ kids

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Please be kind to us with “average “ kids "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started a thread a while back asking for tips for my public school B student with crummy test scores. The responses weren’t kind.

Honestly, we know so many people who own handyman or plumbing businesses, and they are far wealthier than DH and I are with our advanced degrees and white collar jobs. I’m tempted to have my kid apprentice with a family friend and simply invest $200k in my son’s future business rather than pay tuition someplace.

He applied to 10 schools, and who knows what will happen? [/quote]

Please stop glorifying "the trades" with tales of the one person you know who has lots of money.  Trades are incredibly hard work, and making a lot of money at one is mostly about starting and running a successful business.  I went to college and grad school and then later in life decided to start a business that is similar to a trade.  It's been harder than any job that I ever had using my degrees, and so far I haven't made as much money.  I see fellow business owners fail much more often than they succeed.  "The trades" are not just some cushy certificate that anyone can get and then make a lot of money.  It's a long, hard ladder to that point.  Better off with a degree, if they are at all suited for college.  Even a - gasp - mediocre college, provided it doesn't involve too many loans.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics