College or no college - That's the question Now the time is here again for high school graduates to venture off to college and university. I still, to this day, remember being thrilled and overly excited to start as a fresh(wo)man in a new place where studying would go hand in glove with partying for the next few years. I love to see every one's kids swarm out and flock together in college districts and on student campus terrains. Most teenagers get accepted somewhere even though often at second or third choice sites, but they will all have to face one and the same question which is, at what price?
Unless you are granted a scholarship, three years and plus of college education costs you an arm and a leg, and if you keep going for more profound specialization, you will be in debts up your neck by the time you have got your PhD. Then what? Go and spit out job applications like a ball machine hoping that someone is going to hire you - unless of course you were lucky enough as to acquire some truly solid education at prestigious places such as Princeton or Harvard which almost a hundred per cent guarantees you a promising career start right after graduating.
What I keep hearing from folks here as well as through the media though is unfortunately anything but inspiring should anyone still aspire hitting the jackpot in the job and business world.
Just on the contrary, after years of spending tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars on becoming academically trained, only 10% get into jobs that they were trained for.
Altogether, merely 30% of all college graduates find a job at all, and we are not talking about desired or educationally adequate professions. Lots of those brand new bachelors, masters, and doctors end up in odd job places such as McDonald's, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, etc.
No doubt, I certainly prefer a college graduate over a stupid person behind the counter of such places. However, and that's the point, why would you as a parent send your kids to college which very well takes your or their money, but schools them to ultimately be un-, under- or even worse, inadequately employed? First of all, what's the benefit of having to pay back your student loan - often times ten years or longer knowing that there is just not the pool of job opportunities waiting out there for your kids. Secondly, why waste all that money if they don't have a chance in the world to even get the kind of jobs they went to college for in the first place? And last but not least, isn't it all just a stupid farce anyway considering the fact that due to debts piled up to the ceiling, no really satisfactory job offers but dull and under- qualified jobs, life for those kids must incredibly suck as there is just nothing to look forward to. How do you plan to ever work off your student loan of say half a million US dollars flipping burgers somewhere at an hourly rate of meagre 8.25 bucks?
That alone would take you forever, but how about enjoying your life as a college educated person? Impossible - You got that right because it just does not work this way. What will happen though for sure, you will gather even more debts along the way which will eventually backfire entirely.
I personally think that unless the whole situation drastically changes to the better, college is just not worth it anymore. Instead you are better off learning a trade and getting into the workforce right after high school.
Unless you are granted a scholarship, three years and plus of college education costs you an arm and a leg, and if you keep going for more profound specialization, you will be in debts up your neck by the time you have got your PhD. Then what? Go and spit out job applications like a ball machine hoping that someone is going to hire you - unless of course you were lucky enough as to acquire some truly solid education at prestigious places such as Princeton or Harvard which almost a hundred per cent guarantees you a promising career start right after graduating.
What I keep hearing from folks here as well as through the media though is unfortunately anything but inspiring should anyone still aspire hitting the jackpot in the job and business world.
Just on the contrary, after years of spending tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars on becoming academically trained, only 10% get into jobs that they were trained for.
Altogether, merely 30% of all college graduates find a job at all, and we are not talking about desired or educationally adequate professions. Lots of those brand new bachelors, masters, and doctors end up in odd job places such as McDonald's, Taco Bell, Dunkin' Donuts, etc.
No doubt, I certainly prefer a college graduate over a stupid person behind the counter of such places. However, and that's the point, why would you as a parent send your kids to college which very well takes your or their money, but schools them to ultimately be un-, under- or even worse, inadequately employed? First of all, what's the benefit of having to pay back your student loan - often times ten years or longer knowing that there is just not the pool of job opportunities waiting out there for your kids. Secondly, why waste all that money if they don't have a chance in the world to even get the kind of jobs they went to college for in the first place? And last but not least, isn't it all just a stupid farce anyway considering the fact that due to debts piled up to the ceiling, no really satisfactory job offers but dull and under- qualified jobs, life for those kids must incredibly suck as there is just nothing to look forward to. How do you plan to ever work off your student loan of say half a million US dollars flipping burgers somewhere at an hourly rate of meagre 8.25 bucks?
That alone would take you forever, but how about enjoying your life as a college educated person? Impossible - You got that right because it just does not work this way. What will happen though for sure, you will gather even more debts along the way which will eventually backfire entirely.
I personally think that unless the whole situation drastically changes to the better, college is just not worth it anymore. Instead you are better off learning a trade and getting into the workforce right after high school.
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