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This article is unhinged. > Now once you’ve blown $100,000 or more on your education, it’s only natural to feel that you shouldn’t have to work a “manual” job.

This article is unhinged. > Now once you’ve blown $100,000 or more on your education, it’s only natural to feel that you shouldn’t have to work a “manual” job. People who have sunk 100k into their education feel they need a job that pays well enough to pay down their debt. After four years of school and 100k debt what are you supposed to do, borrow another 30k and go back to school to get a plumbing certificate? Manual jobs that pay well also need years of school or apprenticing. I tuned out after that… if you don’t understand people well enough to see that I don’t think your opinion counts for much.

robertlagrant 5y ago
> After four years of school and 100k debt what are you supposed to do, borrow another 30k and go back to school to get a plumbing certificate? No point going to extremes. It's not unhinged, and plumber wasn't the only job listed. Imagine instead of being told you should go to uni, and feel like a failure if you didn't get in/couldn't afford it, you were also told that at 16 becoming a plumber is a great career and you started an apprenticeship at 16 and were fully qualified with no debt by 25. That's the idea behind the article (although with various jobs). Not exactly unhinged.
- kennywinker 5y ago
  I have no problem with more respect being paid to trades. I have a problem with blaming people for doing the thing you’re supposed to do to succeed. Until good jobs stop generally requiring a degree, college will always be an enticing gamble on your future - one that from an individual standpoint makes sense to go for (for most people). On a societal level, it’d be great to offer people other bets they can make, like apprenticeship programs, and make those bets more appealing (both financially and in their societal respectability)
  - robertlagrant 5y ago
    The article isn't blaming them. It's blaming the people who gave then that mentality.
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robertlagrant 5y ago

> After four years of school and 100k debt what are you supposed to do, borrow another 30k and go back to school to get a plumbing certificate? No point going to extremes. It's not unhinged, and plumber wasn't the only job listed. Imagine instead of being told you should go to uni, and feel like a failure if you didn't get in/couldn't afford it, you were also told that at 16 becoming a plumber is a great career and you started an apprenticeship at 16 and were fully qualified with no debt by 25. That's the idea behind the article (although with various jobs). Not exactly unhinged.

kennywinker 5y ago
I have no problem with more respect being paid to trades. I have a problem with blaming people for doing the thing you’re supposed to do to succeed. Until good jobs stop generally requiring a degree, college will always be an enticing gamble on your future - one that from an individual standpoint makes sense to go for (for most people). On a societal level, it’d be great to offer people other bets they can make, like apprenticeship programs, and make those bets more appealing (both financially and in their societal respectability)
- robertlagrant 5y ago
  The article isn't blaming them. It's blaming the people who gave then that mentality.
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