Just loving this administration.
I’ve worked with so many college graduates who are just unemployable.
I worked with a guy who had a masters degree on a secret Nintendo team I was part of, completely outperforming him and my leads.
I never graduated college. I have no degree. I went to college many times and dropped out many times cause I felt like it was a waste of time.
Almost everything I’ve created has either come straight out of mind, “which I actually use” or has been trial and error.
From the time I was college age and up, my parents didn’t have money to afford college and I am not dumb enough to ever take out a student loan.
So I went to work and learned skills. Skills that these college students just don’t have.
Most of them are super entitled until after college, when reality hits them.
I didn’t get a chance to respond to this yesterday but I’m in the same mindset.
I did not learn anything in school about computers. Nothing.
Even when I did Java programming, I had an argument with the professor there because he didn’t like the way I solved the problem and we wanted it solved according to his teaching and what the Java book said.
It was then that I understood that college was not about being prepared for the real world but to get a piece of paper and satisfy the requirements of a professor in a class. Not about learning or applying real world strategies.
Fast forward a few decades where my kids who are in high school told me at 15 years old that a degree is useless.
I was impressed and happy that they told me this and I told them that while that’s true, the useless piece of paper is sort of like a key that opens doors to get a good job based on your field.
Because if your field is some degree like liberal arts, then yeah go to trade school.
But since your mother and I both work and make a decent wage and can afford to sent you to college, take this option and get the useless piece of paper.
I was happy to see that God has blessed them with knowledge to realize the whole college thing at 15 years old.
They’re 17 now. But yes, if kids don’t like to go into some engineering fields or computer fields, then yeah a trade school is worth it.
Here they can make about 60K a year right after high school if they work as a junior helper in fields like HVAC tech, electrician, plumber or construction builder.