This is the Way
College vs Trade School …
Wife points out the differences between her (Masters degree) and her husband (High School, then Trade School)
It’s worth everyone thinking about and have that discussion with your kids. College is not necessary.
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I’ll agree with that.
After HS, I went to a 2 yr Technical Collage (that was as high as that school went) and got my AAS (Associate of Applied Science) in Electronics.
In one form or another, I’ve worked electronics (most of) my entire career, Army and civilian.
I’m not rich, never will be. But I’ve always been able to support family, keep roof over head, food on table, and clothes on back.
But she’s right. “College” (University) isn’t for everyone.
Likewise. I worked avionics in the USN, got out and used my G.I. Bill to get an A.A.S. in Electronics Engineering.
I have a comfortable life, I’m 8 years ahead on my house payments, and can buy anything I truly want. I’m not extravagant, and most importantly, I’ve never been in debt other than a house note. No car note, no credit card, never did either.
I too, have Masters degrees in Nursing and Behavioral Science. When I left that Army after 5 years I enrolled in a Fluid Power Program with a local community college. After six months of study, the program was canceled, this was in 1980. Not enough students were enrolled to pay for the course. I switched to nursing, my mother and sister were nurses. The two masters when all said and done wouldn’t have paid me what I could have made in hydraulics. Had I known about Caterpillar or other trade schools that had a Fluid Power program I would have transferred! I found out most of the schools were cutting programs for soft degrees and computer degree programs. I remember high school guidance counselors pushing college, college, college. No trade schools…
It sounds to me like:
a. She’s deeply upset that her dipshit blue-collar knuckle-dragging husband makes more money than her exquisitely educated ass.
b. She needs to change her dipshit career.
c. She is a dipshit and it’s quite possible he’d be better off without her.
d. She will divorce him within 5 years because she won’t be able to stand that her dipshit blue-collar knuckle-dragging husband makes more money than she does.
That is what Mike Rowe has been pushing for a while. A lot of White collar work can be outsourced or done (eventually) by AI. Hands-on work has to be done by men on site. No outsourcing to India ever.
I have been saying this since the late 70’s.
None of my boys did a lick of college and ALL of them are making 6 figures. The caveat is that they’re smart and didn’t need a kalleeg duhgree to demonstrate their financial capabilities. The millstone of debt a college enrollment will provide, demonstrates the math skill and drive that are missing in the “Higher” education process.
You do realize that a major portion of student debt is to trade schools – the so called “diploma mills” that were created to entice kids to get a trade skill like truck driving or A/C tech, etc. They would handle the funding for them!
Pushing college was all about filling the pockets of democrats party supporters, and getting more “experts” in the ranks to influence the rabble. Trade schools turn out folks who work hard and produce. Colleges turn out (for the most part) folks you think a lot but do nothing.
College degrees are like Cadillac Escalades. People use them to prove to themselves they’re better than others. It’s human nature.
Nobody is “better” than anyone else. We’re all little pieces of fly shit floating on the great sea of humanity. Smart people know it and accept it.
It’s wrong to talk about “college degrees” as if they were all the same. Folk need to remember that some college degrees *are* the equivalent of trade school — medicine, law, engineering, etc. I have a nephew who is a mechanical engineer who recently got a job designing firearms parts for a medium-sized arms manufacturer. I have another relative who is a machinist who makes firearms parts. Both are doing fine, but the engineer is making more cash.
People who approach college as a way to learn a trade and who have a plan to accomplish it afterwards tend to do fine, whether they learn the trade in trade school or college.
It’s the people who go to college without a real plan for a career afterwards, or who decide to spend hundreds of thousands of bucks to learn a poor paying trade who have a problem. They think they can get a degree in social science or literature or whatever and a career path will magically open up for them. Or they think that they will be the *one* social worker who makes a million bucks. That ain’t gonna happen. But the engineers and physicians and lawyers are doing OK.
I have both a college degree and a trade license. I have worked in the trade field as it is far more secure and pays in the six figures range. It is less politicized and far less boring than what my college degree would have provided. I’m retired and don’t worry about where the next dollar will come from. Give trades a chance and you will not regret it.
I think what hh465 said is pretty familiar. I approached undergrad in biology as a trade school program. Grad school was just more of the same but less BS and better people. Being a neuroscientist got boring. Like Indy, too, I preferred the trades, ending up a merchant mariner.
Some of my peers at work these days are HS dropouts. We all make about twice what I would have had I continued on as a neuroscientist and gotten a professorship somewhere, though.
The point is: skills trump a piece of paper. College is important but skills are more importanter. (Jk about “more importanter”)