I really dislike this framing of college being for a job. It’s not some transaction, like: “I did school give me my job now”. It’s an education. University: universal education. You don’t even get into a specific education until grad school.
A major is just a focus point for your universal education. Don’t major in what you want to do. How on earth do you even expect to know what you want to do when you choose? Major in what you want to learn.
And anyone who thinks thier education doesn’t contribute to their career fundamentally misunderstands the meaning of education.
Furthermore, an education is no guarantee of a job, or career. It’s only an education, there are many other factors.
Somehow I’m getting the impression you don’t understand the problem here.
People need jobs, prevailing wisdom told them to go to college so they would become hireable. It turns out a college degree doesn’t make you hireable.
They are right to feel betrayed about the debt they took on to the benefit of landlords and banks, at the urging of pretty much every adult in the country, and to the end result of ever expanding debt all from a time in their life where they could not have borrowed a similar amount of money to start a business or purchase a home.
They were used. They were tricked. They are being taking advantage of and we all are going to suffer mightily because of what that leveraged wealth is able to do in terms of political and financial power.
The kids who took on this debt are not your enemy. I think it was pretty clear to some of us growing up at the turn of the millennium that this is where it was all going, but it’s hard for me to condescend to the kids who believed their parents.
I’m just really lucky that I had experience working with computers and was able to get a job that has nothing to do with anything I learned in school at any point along the way.
What did I say that made you think I don’t understand or see any as an enemy? I’m one of those kids. The core issue it a fundamental misunderstanding of what a university education is.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect anyone to see university as anything other than a monetary investment under capitalism. University education for the sake of it is a luxury.
I really dislike this framing of college being for a job. It’s not some transaction, like: “I did school give me my job now”. It’s an education. University: universal education. You don’t even get into a specific education until grad school.
A major is just a focus point for your universal education. Don’t major in what you want to do. How on earth do you even expect to know what you want to do when you choose? Major in what you want to learn.
And anyone who thinks thier education doesn’t contribute to their career fundamentally misunderstands the meaning of education.
Furthermore, an education is no guarantee of a job, or career. It’s only an education, there are many other factors.
Somehow I’m getting the impression you don’t understand the problem here.
People need jobs, prevailing wisdom told them to go to college so they would become hireable. It turns out a college degree doesn’t make you hireable.
They are right to feel betrayed about the debt they took on to the benefit of landlords and banks, at the urging of pretty much every adult in the country, and to the end result of ever expanding debt all from a time in their life where they could not have borrowed a similar amount of money to start a business or purchase a home.
They were used. They were tricked. They are being taking advantage of and we all are going to suffer mightily because of what that leveraged wealth is able to do in terms of political and financial power.
The kids who took on this debt are not your enemy. I think it was pretty clear to some of us growing up at the turn of the millennium that this is where it was all going, but it’s hard for me to condescend to the kids who believed their parents.
I’m just really lucky that I had experience working with computers and was able to get a job that has nothing to do with anything I learned in school at any point along the way.
What did I say that made you think I don’t understand or see any as an enemy? I’m one of those kids. The core issue it a fundamental misunderstanding of what a university education is.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect anyone to see university as anything other than a monetary investment under capitalism. University education for the sake of it is a luxury.
Sure, paid for out of pocket education can be seen as that, I agree. Buts it’s still an education nonetheless.
Vocational schools, apprenticeships, and universities used to be seperate things.