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I’m an older millennial who went to a not great high school and an ok state university. Of all the people from high school still working dead end service jobs,
by sarchertech 4y ago
I’m an older millennial who went to a not great high school and an ok state university.
Of all the people from high school still working dead end service jobs, I don’t know any with a college degree.
Sure there are people who studied English who aren’t making tons of money, but they also aren’t stuck working at Walmart like some of the people who don’t have degrees are.
An English degree isn’t enough to get you a $100k a year job out of college, but it is enough for just about anyone to get their foot in the door to a career where they can make close to that eventually.
- Gamemaster1379 4y agoYour sample size and personal experiences are small. I can easily contast your story with my own limited anecdote. I grew up in a poor dysfunctional family in a high school so bad it nearly was state mandated. I dropped out of university two years in. The rich kids in my class and many of my peers got degrees. Yet very few moved away and of those who did they all struggle to be more than entry level office workers or interns making double minimum wage at best Yet somehow I'm making 6 figures.
- sarchertech 4y agoAnd my anecdote was in response to the OPs anecdote, which was refuting BLS statistics. My anecdote is much closer to BLS statistics. When you say they are all making double minimum wage at best, that’s less than the bottom decile for college graduates. Your not experience is not representative at all. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t09.htm https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t09.htm