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Originally Posted by scottmandue
Just to qualify,
I'm 56, my friends went to college and ended up costing $20K, WTF happened?
I worked 10 years in construction so I am not against blue collar work, however I would bet most of you posting here are college grads with white collar jobs.
And I notice that most of you are falling in line with the recent notion that college is all about getting a job and $$$.
I will reiterate that 100 years ago college was about WAAAAY more than $$$, it was about being a better (more intelligent) person. Everyone wants to piss and moan about how ignorant/uneducated/uncouth the new generation is... but then we trot out the old "well rounded college grad that can't get a job."
When I got out of high school (30 years ago) a bunch of students got engineering jobs... and graduated to find no jobs.
So college should all about making money? Really? Is that all life is about? Chasing money? Is that the future we want?
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I don't think so at all but, that is primarily why everyone goes to college these days college=good job=good money.
Yes, I sit here at my white collar job but, my father is college educated and still used that to work his way up the "blue collar" ladder. Again I think sucess is achieved through individual goals and ambition rather than strictly by going through the motions to get a degree.