trade school != job... A common trap in the current era is to go back for more education when the job market isn't working out, missing a year or more of wages

trade school != job... A common trap in the current era is to go back for more education when the job market isn't working out, missing a year or more of wages and taking on further debt... And then finding things aren't much better on the other side of the degree. This happened to one of my parents: got one awful job at a tiny company for about a year after getting the master's, then was fired for trying to be ethical (refusing to lie about the results of security audit for the benefit of a large customer), and now can't find anything else... woohoo.