[justjim]

Originally Posted by davephan

About 90% of the college majors have poor to low return on investment. Many people get a worthless college degree, and end up getting a low wage job that they could have obtained with no college degree.

I worked in low wage jobs for almost two decades, before going to a low cost technical college, and obtained a two year IT degree in one year. My starting wage at the IT job was double what I used to make. After about 15 years on the IT job, I was making 5 to 6 times the customer service job.

People need to invest in themselves to increase their job skills in careers that have a good return on the education investment in time and money.

In the trades, an electrician is equal to 3 carpenters. A plumber is equal to 5 carpenters. Moral of the story, become a plumber, not a carpenter, if you work in the trades.

The $15 wage is not a panacea. Target raised the wages to $15 and hour. At the same time, full time workers became part tie workers with no benefits.

Most people have it within themselves to do much more than they think that they can do. I limited my income for almost two decades, working low wage jobs. People have to acquire the job skills so that they can earn higher incomes.

With Socialism or Communism, everyone is brought down to the low level. Imagine hard working students who get A’s, are given C’s, so that all students can receive a C, even the lazy students, that are unwilling to work hard.

With all due respect I would rather have a college degree than not. Statistics show that on the average a college grad earns in a lifetime well over one million dollars more than a high school grad. 75% of all home buyers were college grads in 2016 which is the latest data I found available on a persons ability to purchase a home. It is well known that a college degree is important to having an opportunity to succeed in today’s workforce. It “gets your foot in the door” so to speak. That said, are there other ways to also succeed today? Of course, there are a number of skilled jobs requiring some additional training where an above average wage is available to be earned. And as always, the harder you work the luckier you get. Entrepreneurs who work hard and have unique ideas can be phenomenally successful in today’s business climate.