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What a utilitarian way of looking at things. Maybe the teenager won't be some top-dog talent scout, but you sure can find work in the music industry if that's y
by oinksoft 14y ago
What a utilitarian way of looking at things. Maybe the teenager won't be some top-dog talent scout, but you sure can find work in the music industry if that's your thing. Or taking care of sick dogs, teaching infants, whatever floats your boat.
It will make you less than an ideal cog, so you probably won't make as much money as you could in other professions, and you'll probably struggle at first rather than being recruited. You might struggle a great deal, in fact. But if your aim is not riches and you can squeeze to put food on the table, so what?
I hope that consideration was your reason for skipping the lecture on fellatio, and not mere propriety.
- rohern 14y agoI think OP's comments about being a good Asian parent are pretty silly, but the kind of wishy-washy "everything works out in the end" reasoning that you use here is exactly what has gotten so many young people stuck in the position described in the NYTimes article. One must to consider the economics of things to plan for the future. You cannot get a liberal arts degree on the hope that things will work out. Well, you can, but then you're going to spend a decade in unpaid internships before you finally suck it up and learn to program.
- oinksoft 14y agoIt seems like snake-oil education is culpable, with folks enrolling in college for nebulous reasons. Young people are having problems because of student debt tied to degrees that aren't doing anything for them. The "everybody should aspire to college" ethos is dying quickly, but not without collateral damage.
- rohern 14y agoI completely agree about useless degrees, but we're talking about 18-year-olds smart enough to get into college. They are responsible for wisely choosing what to study.
- pnathan 14y agoSometimes you just want to be able to pay the bills and have a prayer of not working two jobs.