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I’ve been seeing people pushing trades for years. The issue is, society finds NO balance. We need people that do both. We don’t need an electrician to write PowerPoints (please don’t ask my brother to😂) but we do need them to fix the hardware we use to make the PowerPoints. PowerPoints also can seem pointless to someone in a trade, but they’re useful to the ones running the business they work for.
Yeah… people should learn to write a PowerPoint in High School. 🤦🏼♀️ No college or university teaches these basic life skills. We need to demand more of our public high schools.
I think we're already seeing this to an extent.
I'm interested what decade was this during because as far as I know college degrees started getting encouraged in the mid 70s.
More like the 80s. Factory work, etc. became more automated around this time. "Between 1980 and 2012, jobs requiring high levels of social interaction grew by nearly 12 percentage points as a share of the US labor force, according to Harvard education researcher David Deming. As a hiring proxy for this, companies started to turn to four-year college degrees."
The shift actually happened after WWII and the GI bill. Suddenly, college was so attainable/affordable for average Americans who simultaneously moved to the suburbs and owned single family homes. Hello “American Dream.”
Then, their kids, the boomers, were told go to college like dad did and this is the path. And it was because college wasn’t as expensive, many still were GIs, and their parents didn’t have debt like the boomers did when their kids went to college.
Now this - worthless pieces of paper with no skills after 4 years of partying that no one went to war to pay for that are “required” to work as a receptionist. Entitlement and great dissatisfaction result when people can’t understand why they wasted $200k and 4 years and now are doing crap they could have done when they were 12 without a college degree. They complain about how they’re being asked to do BS tasks because their degree makes them overqualified for the jobs that are actually available. Oh, and they actually need to just learn on the job as an apprentice anyway because they didn’t learn anything at college.
Imagine if we just joined the workforce at 18 and earned money and skills for 4 years and saved the cost of college how much more wealth we would have!
Think of it like a fashion trend: bell bottoms were cool, then they weren't, then they were back in style, and now they're probably gathering dust in some forgotten attic. So the perception of higher education has gone through its own ups and downs.