There are few to no labor jobs left, everything is done with the aid of a machine of some sort that requires a degree of skill and training to operate. Making a living from any job or career is dependent on what your skills are valued at and how many are actually doing the same job. For instance if all the fruit pickers went home to Mexico etc fruit picking would be a very well paid job. There isn't a disdain for college education just that colleges are now degree mills. In other words huge numbers of 18 year olds that are not academically good enough for college are admitted, waste 4 years of their life, run up huge debts on loans and leave with an education that qualifies them for nothing but working Starbucks. Then there's all the sjw bullshit in colleges and the huge price of college education which is inflated by mis-spendung of college funds. Got to get it through to sjws on college campuses that all these sjw programmes they are fighting to get on college campus cost money and its they the college student that fits the bill. You will never make a good living on any minimum wage job. Retirement pensions aren't what they were and can go bankrupt or made worthless due to inflation. The next wave of automation is going to leave a lot of people in financial services, hospitality, retail, health, human services, information technology and education as redundant and unemployed.https://www.youtube.com/embed/-lt8lzLhVJo
Stats from when? The over 40-80 year old college graduate or the current up and coming generation with a fairly sizeable number of 22-30 year old college graduates who are struggling to get anything other than minimum wage? Certainly the best paid jobs require a college education but they also require that you do well at college, study certain fields and maybe come out with a masters.
Adam1978 | 121 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
Yoda
18 d
Well if you want to get paid you better do some work. The whole pay for the same thing over and over again is for stupid. If your smart you break that cycle. So people doing work will make a living the remainder is gambling on the expense of the stupid. And there doesn't seem to a shortcoming in how many people that fall into that category today. So if your not living on your own work you must be living off someone elses.
Uhhhh... yeah, they do! And many people in the labor sector manage quite nicely. Ever need your electric system worked on? Need a plumber to install a 2nd bathroom? A new roof? What about keeping that vehicle running? Someone's gotta sell you that lawn mower, dishwasher, TV, carpeting, and the bed you sleep on. Those people don't all make a ton of money, but many of them earn a decent income (in excess of $50K/yr). I work in the IT sector and make a very decent salary (near 6 figures) WITHOUT a degree.
As for college... I've seen what comes put of college. That's the last thing I want, is to be like those idiots!
It may be a skilled job, but you're definitely not going to learn it in college! Try taking a college course on HVAC installation and repair. Not happening. In the space of year or two of technology training and OJT, people are earning a solid income with ZERO student loans.
As for "unskilled" labor, who plans on doing that all their lives? Those are the minimum wage jobs we all tell you about that definitely do NOT need to be paid $15/hr. They're also the jobs people take starting out in the workforce or if they're transitioning to another job. Either way, getting paid min wage was never ever meant to be a "living wage". People were always expected to move on from min wage jobs, especially since most are temporary work hours anyway.
Half the country is unskilled buddy. And while tech schools are great, stats are pretty clear: college degrees means more bennies throughout your life.
Is THAT why so many young people have $60K-$150K student loans hanging over their heads? Because they get more bennies? How does that help anyone with a degree in art history, or music? Or a liberal arts degree (whatever that means)? Or one in European political science? Yeah... I can see most of those people being hired for huge sums of $$. Probably take them 200 years to pay off their student debt!
If the only jobs available are unskilled, blame liberals for inviting foreign labor into the US and taxing business to the point it's cheaper to export the jobs and re-import the products. Your President is planning on doing just that too! Hope y'all enjoy it, especially those who voted for the jerk. The last I read, Trump had the lowest unemployment rates in our nation's history.
Yeah student debt is a dangerous bubble, but it’s not keeping individuals in poverty. My college loan is a 6% interest rate. Hard to find that good of an investment.
And the jobless college students you speak of are a minority to middle and upper class productive citizenry. Which plumbers are no doubt apart. They make good money.
Sevenpointfive | 347 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
Guru
14 d
that's why people rely on tips. people that get tipped make an astounding amount of money per year and don't claim all of their earnings. i guess that's not hard labor though
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Juxtapose | 100 opinions shared on Education & Career topic.
Guru
18 d
If you keep normalizing college it's just going to be a very expensive high school diploma in terms of value.
It's not feasible man, in the United States the cost of college is so ridiculous and people are saddled with debt that can't get cleansed with bankruptcy.
I literally can't afford college myself and would have to go into debt. I can afford a few nice things here and there, like my PlayStation 5, but college is fucking ridiculous. Nnoooo waaaay, I would need to very deliberately get a sugar mama to support my college expenses.
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