Explain this retarded meme. I graduated valedictorian, easily richest person from hs and despite being very academic don't actually enjoy education. However going to Berkely next year cause it's obviously a million times harder to get anywhere in life without it.
What do all these memetards actually do instead?
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Trades, certs, start businesses, be NEETS, work minimum wage, etc.
Wide range of people that don't go to college and what they do instead. But the fact does remain that a lot of them would be doing the exact same things without college but years later and with 30k in debt.
College is a waste for the average person because they don't go to school for anything useful and school isn't useful even if the degree is. See: CS grads graduating that can't actually program and have no connections.
If you think doing well in high school and having some cash means you can just shit around Berkley and make it, you're in for a rude awakening. You still need a plan if you don't want to be getting told LEARN TO CODE in 4 years after you get your liberal arts degree and are looking for work as a freelance nu-journalist.
>Trades, be NEETS, work minimum wage
These are all awful
>Certs
Like college but shittier
>Start businesses
Best option if you can actually do it... But the vast, vast majority of people can't
Not all of those listings were supposed to be glamorous. Really none of them were, they're just things that people do after high school. But that same list is things nearly 60% do out of college, too.
Literally just making shit up. I'd guess it's around 80 percent white collar wagie, 15 percent min wage/neet, 5 percent business
Obviously if you're in the top 20% you make $100k and it's easy mode. But if you go to college to make $50-60k it's not worth it because you will have no debt and start making money earlier, and with the promotions mean you'll be in the same spot but with experience. It's all situational
And not everyone has daddy's money to be rich out of college and focus 100% on the time in education and partying
user 56% of Americans that start college drop out and go back to that list of things. That's just the ones that never get a degree in the first place but still have the debt.
More than half of people that start college in the US don't finish.
Even when you do, most majors do not have starting salaries that outpace trades + experience.
You make more graduating high school and becoming an electrician's apprentice (45k first year, going up to 65k fourth year, then you "graduate" and become a journeyman making 70k a year) than you would with over half the degrees offered by colleges (no money at all those four years and starting at 45k a year after graduation, plus no work experience).
College is statistically not worth it for most Americans. Sure, it's a good deal if you go, finish, major in something useful, and minimize or nullify debt. But that's an increasingly rare phenomenon.
>user 56% of Americans that start college drop out and go back to that list of things.
Dropouts obviously aren't the same as graduates
>Even when you do, most majors do not have starting salaries that outpace trades + experience.
You make more graduating high school and becoming an electrician's apprentice (45k first year, going up to 65k fourth year, then you "graduate" and become a journeyman making 70k a year) than you would with over half the degrees offered by colleges (no money at all those four years and starting at 45k a year after graduation, plus no work experience).
Literally just wrong. Median income for the very best paying trades (all ages) is 55k... below (barely) the absolute crappiest college jobs like teacher
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>College is statistically not worth it for most Americans
Completely fucking wrong if you finish
college is a worthwhile investment if you're going into medicine, law, the hard sciences, or engineering.