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But keep in mind that it's all completely voluntary. As someone who was a foreigner in the US, I got to the top 3-5% salary wise. I'm astonished how much oppor

by rorrr2 13y ago

But keep in mind that it's all completely voluntary. As someone who was a foreigner in the US, I got to the top 3-5% salary wise. I'm astonished how much opportunities US has for education, jobs and business, yet people pass them en masse. There's a huge subset of the population that considers education and knowledge as something lame. The second big problem is that young people are fed "you can be anything you want" mantra, so they end up studying (while spending tons of money and years) impractical things like art or history or women studies or international relations. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE art, but you shouldn't base your future on a possibility that you will become famous enough to support yourself making art. What we need to do is educate our young people to choose their majors wisely. So next time you hear somebody wanting to study history, slap them in the face and tell them to read history porn during their free time.

BillyMaize 13y ago
As someone who grew up in the low income bracket of America I totally agree with your first point, it is amazing how easy it is to simply work hard and get somewhere like I have, yet people throw that chance away all the time. Your second point, however, I think is not so much about students thinking they can be whatever they want and more about not succeeding in their first choices. Most of the people I went to college with tried to be engineers or physics majors or something similar but didn't put enough effort in and instead of simply dropping out decided to change their majors to something easier because "you have to get a degree" is such a strong idea by our parents generation that most kids will accept the debt knowing they will never find a good job simply to not look like a failure. I'm not saying this is any better, but this in my experience seems to be the more common reason for so many people getting those degrees.

by rorrr2 13y ago

BillyMaize 13y ago

As someone who grew up in the low income bracket of America I totally agree with your first point, it is amazing how easy it is to simply work hard and get somewhere like I have, yet people throw that chance away all the time. Your second point, however, I think is not so much about students thinking they can be whatever they want and more about not succeeding in their first choices. Most of the people I went to college with tried to be engineers or physics majors or something similar but didn't put enough effort in and instead of simply dropping out decided to change their majors to something easier because "you have to get a degree" is such a strong idea by our parents generation that most kids will accept the debt knowing they will never find a good job simply to not look like a failure. I'm not saying this is any better, but this in my experience seems to be the more common reason for so many people getting those degrees.