lynati:

systlin:

triggeredmedia:

It’s almost as if schools push and ideology that benefits schools. 

Particularly if you get certified to haul Hazmat materials. 

I’ve talked to many of the drivers who haul Hazmat loads into/out of our facility and some of them make absolute bank. 

In part, it’s because when our parents were growing up, a college degree guaranteed the ability to make, like, eight times as much money as trade jobs did. Not that the trade jobs were bad or paid poorly, it was just that college was supposed to be the road to oodles more money.

That “truth” has long since disintegrated, because soon so many jobs now view college degrees as a basic requirement for an employee instead of a gold-standard hire…but that just made the pressure to get a college degree even worse, because if everyone had one and you didn’t, what kind of job could you hope for?

A lot of awesome ones if you train for a trade, as it turns out, but the myth of higher education being the road to success remains, even though more often than not these days it seems to lead to massive debt and little hope of landing the kind of position your education ought to warrant.