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Early 2000's high school grad. Now an MD, paid off my undergrad already and most of my MD. I guess I'm still a worthless millennial freeloader though
I don't think the "pay up freeloaders" folks understand how expensive college can be, particularly for out of state students who don't have a scholarship.
Also, when I was in school every teacher, guidance counselor, and most parents strongly pushed college and threatened us that we'd spend the rest of our lives in fast food.
If conservatives were smart they'd go towards making college debt dischargeable in bankruptcy. It would strongly discourage lenders re making big loans for worthless degrees. But they instead keep wanting to feed the educrat bureaucracy.
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Yes.
My parents - Go to college because your father didn't (he eventually did) and every job he took in the "old" manufacturing economy was gone by the mid-1980s. Don't be a loser like dad.
Tradesmen - I don't tell my kids to join the trades, I tell them to go to school so they can maybe be in charge of one of these projects. This is dirty work. Get an office gig where there aren't port-a-johns.
Machinist - My boss is dick and always telling me what to do. Get a degree and you can design what I'm machining and tell people what to do.
School - If you don't go to college you'll be stuck with an 82' Camaro with leaky T-Tops working at the closest fast food joint.
This was the very early 1990s. Almost all of the adults in my life told me the worst things about what it was they did. College was supposed to be this glorious thing where you exited and were in charge of the world (LOL) and could just write your own check. Of course, as a teen, I realized most of this wasn't true but still, no one was encouraging me to do anything but go to college.