One of the greatest challenges an 18 year-old faces is to make what may be the largest financial decision of his life.
Societal pressure often leads to them making horrendously poor ones.
My college experience was as much about social development as education, and I appreciated my 4 years away from home. I didn’t get into the dorms my first year and had to manage the entire household experience, as it were, buying groceries and cooking meals. I didn’t have to work through college but did a little part-time work. Work ethic was probably what I would have appreciated learning more of. But all that can come from a college that doesn’t have ivy on its walls and massive costs. And there are plenty of careers that don’t require a 4-year degree and which pay well.
College isn’t necessarily a bad way. But all factors should be considered – especially the debt burden you will incur.
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I discovered my freshman year, college was a crap shoot.
First required history class, think the professor went to Berkeley.
Left wing crap, totally wrong most of the time.
US history, I knew it, damn him.
This was before the shut your mouth indoctrination began, all he had was a grade, he used it.
Second quarter class, took his advice and reregistered with another teacher.
They had to sign off on that, he did, eagerly.
Made an A, teacher loved that I was always prepared and participated.
What a difference an indoctrination makes.
Never got a degree, took and found what I needed.
Uncle Sam stepped in, did OK.
Made me a member of a yacht club.
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A dozen years ago my kid wanted to go to some 2 year art college down South.
I think half her reason was that she was sweet on some
guy down there though she does have artistic talent.
With room and board it cost $50,000 per year.
I researched the average yearly income of their grads. $35,000. No Go.
Since then I used the money to give her 2 years
of general requirement courses at a local college,
a downpayment on a house that has more than doubled
in value, helped her pay for a 6 month Medical Office Assistant course (once she finally worked long enough
to figure out what she really wanted to do) for about 5 grand and she is making….. $ 35,000 with full medical, and dental insurance at a job she likes.
Being an old college grad from when you had to work to
pass courses worth the cash, I have to say it is no
longer worth it to be robbed to pay big for the higher propaganda/education sham.
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Never ever give up….
I could tell you my story….but you wouldn’t believe it….I did go to college and get a BA….
You have to play the hand you’re dealt….but….
Never ever give up.
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A bachelor’s degree now is worth what
a high school diploma was in my day, which was worth what
an 8th grade education was in my grandfather’s day
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The reason to get into and go to an elite school is to make connections or become a professor.
The reason to go anywhere else is if there are some kinds of subjects and skills needed that cannot be got elsewhere or on one’s own, and/or the field in question requires the degree credential, either for employment (often arbitrary) or to qualify to get into a professional school.
Otherwise, as others have noted, it’s merely a delayed adolescence transition period.
I thought that has been pretty obvious for a while now.
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Great video.
College and Grad school were necessary for my line of work. In my spare time I like to weld. I’d send my kid to welding school if he was so inclined. Over $100K/year if you’re good.
OTD, I was a member of that yacht club and jet aircraft club (F-4 Phantoms) for 3 years before I went to College in the mid 70’s. It was the best thing that I ever did for myself, it forced me to grow up and I got 2 free all expenses paid tours of the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean including a trip to the Persian Gulf in 1074 and to see the evils of communism up close as the USS Kitty Hawk CV 63 was the first aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific right after Saigon fell to the N. Vietnamese communists in the Spring of 1975. I consider myself fortunate to have seen a lot of world events up close and personal that I wouldn’t have seen if I hadn’t joined the Navy before going to college. And besides I was more mature and better off at 22 for serving in the military for 3 years than when I was 19.
Did I really write 1074, I really meant 1974. I apologize for being an older guy who sometimes messes things up. I may be old but I’m not that old.
I think he is correct. Developing a well functioning BS Detector before starting college would be very helpful for avoiding the nonsense indoctrination being pushed on many (most) college campi today.
One of the greatest challenges an 18 year-old faces is to make what may be the largest financial decision of his life.
Societal pressure often leads to them making horrendously poor ones.
My college experience was as much about social development as education, and I appreciated my 4 years away from home. I didn’t get into the dorms my first year and had to manage the entire household experience, as it were, buying groceries and cooking meals. I didn’t have to work through college but did a little part-time work. Work ethic was probably what I would have appreciated learning more of. But all that can come from a college that doesn’t have ivy on its walls and massive costs. And there are plenty of careers that don’t require a 4-year degree and which pay well.
College isn’t necessarily a bad way. But all factors should be considered – especially the debt burden you will incur.
I discovered my freshman year, college was a crap shoot.
First required history class, think the professor went to Berkeley.
Left wing crap, totally wrong most of the time.
US history, I knew it, damn him.
This was before the shut your mouth indoctrination began, all he had was a grade, he used it.
Second quarter class, took his advice and reregistered with another teacher.
They had to sign off on that, he did, eagerly.
Made an A, teacher loved that I was always prepared and participated.
What a difference an indoctrination makes.
Never got a degree, took and found what I needed.
Uncle Sam stepped in, did OK.
Made me a member of a yacht club.
A dozen years ago my kid wanted to go to some 2 year art college down South.
I think half her reason was that she was sweet on some
guy down there though she does have artistic talent.
With room and board it cost $50,000 per year.
I researched the average yearly income of their grads. $35,000. No Go.
Since then I used the money to give her 2 years
of general requirement courses at a local college,
a downpayment on a house that has more than doubled
in value, helped her pay for a 6 month Medical Office Assistant course (once she finally worked long enough
to figure out what she really wanted to do) for about 5 grand and she is making….. $ 35,000 with full medical, and dental insurance at a job she likes.
Being an old college grad from when you had to work to
pass courses worth the cash, I have to say it is no
longer worth it to be robbed to pay big for the higher propaganda/education sham.
Never ever give up….
I could tell you my story….but you wouldn’t believe it….I did go to college and get a BA….
You have to play the hand you’re dealt….but….
Never ever give up.
A bachelor’s degree now is worth what
a high school diploma was in my day, which was worth what
an 8th grade education was in my grandfather’s day
The reason to get into and go to an elite school is to make connections or become a professor.
The reason to go anywhere else is if there are some kinds of subjects and skills needed that cannot be got elsewhere or on one’s own, and/or the field in question requires the degree credential, either for employment (often arbitrary) or to qualify to get into a professional school.
Otherwise, as others have noted, it’s merely a delayed adolescence transition period.
I thought that has been pretty obvious for a while now.
Great video.
College and Grad school were necessary for my line of work. In my spare time I like to weld. I’d send my kid to welding school if he was so inclined. Over $100K/year if you’re good.
OTD, I was a member of that yacht club and jet aircraft club (F-4 Phantoms) for 3 years before I went to College in the mid 70’s. It was the best thing that I ever did for myself, it forced me to grow up and I got 2 free all expenses paid tours of the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean including a trip to the Persian Gulf in 1074 and to see the evils of communism up close as the USS Kitty Hawk CV 63 was the first aircraft carrier in the Western Pacific right after Saigon fell to the N. Vietnamese communists in the Spring of 1975. I consider myself fortunate to have seen a lot of world events up close and personal that I wouldn’t have seen if I hadn’t joined the Navy before going to college. And besides I was more mature and better off at 22 for serving in the military for 3 years than when I was 19.
Did I really write 1074, I really meant 1974. I apologize for being an older guy who sometimes messes things up. I may be old but I’m not that old.
I think he is correct. Developing a well functioning BS Detector before starting college would be very helpful for avoiding the nonsense indoctrination being pushed on many (most) college campi today.