Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 2) 49
Have any of you idiots put a kid through college recently? Workload is insane.
Take everything we had to do when you went to college, now add a shitload more classes and then on top of that at a ton of classes that are basically on the job training that you are paying for. That's college now.
In exchange for this you will get access to substantially more money than if you didn't go to college. Yeah I know there are plumbers out there running their own businesses but if you're not running your own business you top out at $20 an hour. The same goes for welders unless they are doing crazy dangerous shit.
It's like nobody here can Google anymore. Seriously go look up the median income for all those plumbers you keep saying are making millions. I'll wait.
College is orders of magnitude more work then when we were kids and you are expected to come out ready to go without any additional need for training.
As an added side bonus for that you basically can't work your way through college because they won't let you take your 300 level courses if they find out you're working even part-time. When my kid went they literally had a in person interview in order to be admitted to their 300 level courses. The fact that I was paying their way through college was a deciding factor that allowed them to finish. I knew at least one Ronin who was working at the game shop I was going to at the time because they were told there weren't enough slots.
It's so fucking annoying to watch old farts act like the kids don't have it worse than they did. Every generation of old farts likes to go on about how the kids these days which would be fine if we had left those kids a better world but we dump them into this shit show.