Re:American Students Know Almost Nothing About Their College...
by kamaal on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @06:22PM
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>>Most of the middle and lower class was hustled.
Into what?
I'm from India, and I generally have to talk to my younger cousins when they think of choosing courses like Arts, History, Literature and Media studies about impossibility of making a good living with that sort of an academic background. Almost certainly these people will have to do jobs that don't remotely match their education, and are generally low paying. Career is almost non-existent, and then starts the regular whining and hating people from the STEM(and law) branches. In fact even science and technology degrees will get you nothing more then low paying jobs as teachers. Your best bet as a salaried employee is with a engineering degree, medicine and may be law.
I can only understand how much more worse it can be for people in America, with far higher student debts, high rents in cities, unfortunate health interruptions and in a largely credit driven consumerism based economy. You can pretty much spend your whole life paying loans(education, house etc).
Next time while choosing a course, at least make sure it gives you some bare minimal skills. I would even bet, some thing like carpentry, welding or plumbing would be more helpful to making a living than some thing like studying History.
Into what?
I'm from India, and I generally have to talk to my younger cousins when they think of choosing courses like Arts, History, Literature and Media studies about impossibility of making a good living with that sort of an academic background. Almost certainly these people will have to do jobs that don't remotely match their education, and are generally low paying. Career is almost non-existent, and then starts the regular whining and hating people from the STEM(and law) branches. In fact even science and technology degrees will get you nothing more then low paying jobs as teachers. Your best bet as a salaried employee is with a engineering degree, medicine and may be law.
I can only understand how much more worse it can be for people in America, with far higher student debts, high rents in cities, unfortunate health interruptions and in a largely credit driven consumerism based economy. You can pretty much spend your whole life paying loans(education, house etc).
Next time while choosing a course, at least make sure it gives you some bare minimal skills. I would even bet, some thing like carpentry, welding or plumbing would be more helpful to making a living than some thing like studying History.