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Re:Meta-analysis: On average undergraduate students intellig... by paulpauper on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:53AM (#38880361)
Yeah exactly. Do as I say, not as I do. Look at all those reddit FIRE/investing subs. Everyone with those 6-fig salaries has degrees. No tradespeople. It's obvious where the $ is, student debt notwithstanding. If the goal is to make $, and you have the aptitude to finish, its hard to beat the 4-year degree.
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Re:Meta-analysis: On average undergraduate students intellig... by OJFord on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:18AM (#38880734)
There are plenty of them earning six figures, short term (not including the degree years) some trades are probably reliably better - the median anyway, not compared to FANG.

There's just perhaps not that much overlap with those circles.

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Re:Meta-analysis: On average undergraduate students intellig... by hotpotamus on Friday January 05, 2024 @11:17AM (#38880719)
On the one hand, that's a selected group of people who sit at desks and can chat on a web forum during the day at their jobs (as I am right now), so I wouldn't take them as representative.

On the other hand, the trades fucking suck - there are posters here who I will generously interpret as being a bit... touched perhaps? when it comes to the realities of work and particularly pay that the average tradesman must face. I'm sure somewhere, some tradesperson in the world is making a couple hundred thousand a year, but statistically speaking, basically none of them are. There's a reason they want their kids to go into a different line of work.

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