Re:Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College...
by ivanhoe on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:05PM
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It will eventually, but public perception on what jobs are "cool" has a lot of inertia - especially since students are under a huge influence and pressure from their parents whose perspective is usually lagging 10+ years behind the actual situation on the job market...
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Re:Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College...
by badpun on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @05:05PM
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Yep, that's exactly the case. Parents know that blue-collar work is back-breaking, and they want their children to have a "better life", which they associate with a college degree and office work. The memo that this office work will sometimes pay as little as stocking shelves in Tesco has not reached them yet.
On top of that, the trade schools were criminally neglected over the past 20 years, so it's very possible to go there and not learn much practical skills...