o.pwuaioc wrote: It's all a balancing act, for sure, and the difficulty is compounded by the fact that so many teens don't really know themselves to any great degree when they sign up for college.
This is something that always skips the minds of the adults. I remember when we finished high school , my colleagues and I, were like "What are we supposed to do now?" . We really didn't know which career path to choose, what to study, whats best for us financially, what would work best for us. You can't just pick up "Cardiology" and hope for the best because a lot of time and money will be wasted during the process if you were wrong about it. There were very few that had an exact aim and actually got to their goal. Some even after getting their degree and joining the workforce, some years later they decide to do something else for a living.
Society should have more awareness towards this and communicate it well with the confused younger ones.
PretentiousHipster wrote:There's also the fact that we are raised into thinking that going to university is a must, and we are dumbasses for going to 2 year colleges or the trades instead. Definitely have to fix the perspective of what makes a job "good"
For most people I observed, university is just school on steroids. Literally, many people including myself completed university and have no idea how to do any real life work. I'd pick a trained and experience blue collar worker over a fresh university graduate if I had a business to run. There are only specific fields you can get a degree for in university and leave knowing how to do real work which I am going to guess are STEM studies.
Although I have to say that university graduates as a whole tend to have more "professionalism" and ability to learn over people who are high-schoolers or high-school dropouts but I am only speaking generally.
