I hate the idea of considering college/uni as just job training. Seriously, why can't our society just encourage people to go learn just to LEARN. Oh yea because wage slavery.
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I worked at a gas station while I was in college so I could pay my rent. I remember my girlfriend at the time was in the store talking to me and some bitch was like "I wish my boyfriend worked at a gas station". She went to the same school as me but didn't know and had the nerve to treat me as less than her because she was in school. People are fucking idiots
Yeah, they are. I don't think people understand the fiscal realities of living in America, but I'll tell you one thing. I just get gas at the gas station. Maybe some sigs. No Red Bull, no Monster, I go home and make instant coffee. If this is the nation of the lowest common denominator, then I'm gonna fucking lean into it. I don't eat fast food. I don't go to the movies. I don't go to the mall. I don't do any of this Yankee shit. I constantly educate myself 24 fuckin' 7. It's the only thing that keeps me sane. Relative to what I do mostly, the library is one of my frequent places though. No Coachella for me. No Disney land. No toys like Star Wars figures. Just integrated circuits, code, and knowledge. With some mathematics that I fucking stumble the fuck through. If something breaks, I learn how to fix it. I go outside and pick the weeds before I would ever spray. I plant food. I eat that food. I grow my own weed in a legal way. I cook my own food. I am 40 years old. The world just gets worse. And I feel it's because we feed the problem. No more fucking war. Israel is committing a genocide. Religion is for Idiots. If I buy music, I have to have a hard copy and I rip it to my devices. If I cannot do this, I will sit in fucking silence staring at the wall. For I am an unmovable object. I am not perfect. I don't want to be perfect, I also don't want to be a cuck. or an insensitive idiot. But I will tell you the truth.
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Everyone had their own experience.
My degree got me into "real jobs"/career jobs. Before that I even with nearly 2 decades in IT I could barely make headway.
Getting my degree let me actually pursue my passion in environmental work.
I still hate I NEEDED to get the degree and loans and and whatever but it DID help. Also I did enjoy school. I like learning.
School was bad ass! I would go back if I could. But now I have bills to feed and kids to pay
I remember working retail and having angry customers tell me to go to college and do something with my life when they didn’t get their way. Little did they know that I, like a majority of the workers there my age, were in college and just working a summer job. Some people are just dicks and my experience in retail has shown me that anyone 50+ yrs old is most likely to be an asshole for no reason. Idk why but the older generation here in the US is full of self-centered cunks.
Lead poisoning damage to their brains has made them genuine psychopaths.
I too believe this is a major reason for the downfall of society
They are probably full of regret around their younger years and just projecting their own bullshit onto others.
Here’s the thing… I remember some years back that (I think it was) Denmark had the best educated population or the most college degrees or some such, so your cashier or barista could very easily have a college degree.
The difference is that they get paid far better than retail in the US, get all the benefits of social policy, and from unionization. Vacation time, health care, maternity leave, etc. that retail positions in the US would be highly unlikely to have. I’m sure there’s some social stratification to blue collar positions vs white collar in such a country, but I’m sure it takes a lot of the sting out of it when you’re taking your two weeks vacation on the mediterranean coast.
I live in Austria, where it's not even quite as nice (well, similar benefits, but no federal minimum wage). It's deeply engrained in our culture that education doesn't have to be prep for a job. I personally know many people who pursue or have completed uni education that's completely unrelated to their like of work. Some have degrees in other areas, some don't. We have some pretty 'bad' statistics for how long People take to finish their degrees because people are, like, full time kindergarten teachers and taking 10 years to do a political science degree on the side purely because it interests them. People value education for its own sake and I love it. Unfortunately though, capitalism has this culture on the decline, and not even that long after education became open to most people.
No minimum wage, but we do have collective bargaining, for anyone who's interested.
I would rather have a citizens income than a minimum wage and would prefer a maximum wage (highest paid cannot be more than 100x lowest paid)
Yes, thanks for adding :) but there's industries where the minimum wage is still under 10€.
Yeah, it's not exactly a worker's utopia here, for sure, but at least there's some raise every year that my employer wouldn't otherwise give me if not for collective bargaining.