Am I wrong for telling my niece her college debt, and her inability to find jobs is her own fault because of the majors she chose?

[Anonymous]

My niece is a recent college grad. She spent 6 years in, When she first went in my one piece of advice for her was to not do a worthless degree, and i gave her Forbes list of worthless degrees. Well not only did she choose a worthless degree, her two majors were the worst. She got a degree in Liberal Arts. Her Major was Women's/Gender studies. She is over 100k in debt, and her job prospects are nil, with her highest salary expectation being 33k. She could have been a nurse, and made more, She could have gone to trade school and made more than triple, But she chose to go against good advice and get a worthless degree.

She was complaining to me, Suggesting that it was sexism as the reason that she could not find a good job in her "Field". I point blank explained to her that "Its not sexism when you choose degrees that have no value, Nor is it sexism when you choose majors that have no value. Its also not sexism that you spent 100k against the advice of my self, your aunt, and your own parents on degrees and classes that serve no value or purpose beyond politics." I was subsequently called a sexist hateful pig. I swear this generation of college students are not able to accept responsibility for their actions.

https://www.forbes.com/pictures/fgek45hg/no-5-liberal-arts/?sh=4c7afd08ca74

[MzAsh]

I’m not surprised to hear she’s not finding a job. A lot of college grads struggle in many to most fields. The degree isn’t a sure thing. They want someone with experience. I keep telling my friend who’s got a degree in hr (she’s been searching for a job for several years) that she needs to eat shit for a while as she takes an intern or volunteer position for the experience. Meanwhile I’ve managed to get tech and journalism jobs that require a bachelors and I’m a college dropout.


What job does she plan on getting with a gender studies degree?

[MzAsh]

And, you should have expected she wasn’t going to take your message well. You wouldn’t like to be told you went into 100k in debt for something useless. If they were my niece, I’d ask her a bunch of potent questions and let her come to the conclusions herself.

[Syntosi]

Yepp, that is wrong in my opinion. That said, if she went over to Europe she would probably find plenty of job offers and considering how Biden is moving I also expect student debt to become forgiven and possibly a thing of the past.

Quite frankly its insane to me that education puts students into debt in the first place. Putting that sort of handicap on young adults during the period of time where they have the most promise and chance to become successful in life will have predictable consequences and result in a lot of poverty.

[Anonymous]

How "sexist" of you. I'm going to be "sexist" to and point out the fact that this issue is one of the biggest reasons behind the "gender pay gap". Women seem to want to have their cake and eat it too.

https://hbr.org/2017/04/women-dominate-college-majors-that-lead-to-lower-paying-work

[Dargil]

Blunt but truthful. She should have picked nursing as a major. Not Nigerian gay ballet.

[Anonymous]

No but she been into a liberal cesspool, no hope once you fall into that kinda toxic mess

Unless they did STEM or medical I don't associate with people who went to university