If you work hard and play by the rules you can make it in America.
People go to school, earn a degree or two, graduate with debt and work the rest of their lives trying to pay it back. In 2010, the average college graduate owed $24,000 in student loan while facing an unemployment rate of 8.7%. The majority of young grads hold back on having a family, buying a car or a house because they fell face first in the debt trap. The reality is, the four year college degree is overrated. College Universities are to education what casinos are to Las Vegas. It a huge gamble designs to keep you expanding your debt from books new edition every semester, to general education classes, to credit transfers and faculty professors that play God with you forcing you to play by their rules or flunk out. From kinder garden you are brainwashed into believing that college is the right choice. If you do not go to college you will be a failure. Kids go in and come back like boomerangs not realizing how ill prepared they are to enter the knowledge factory that plays by four set of rules.
- 1. Education success must take four years to achieved not matter what you are learning
- 2. The economic rewards of a four year degree has nothing to do with what is being learned
- 3. Urge people to get a four year degree, wait until they have spend enough time and money and then watch them drop out
- 4. Marginalize everyone who does not have a four year degree
College students end up dropping out, or committing suicide or worst going on a shooting spree… just remember what happened in Virginia Tech. I can help but wonder if college fosters this type of environment. Since we live in a society obsess by status people would rather get a low paying white collar job then a high paying blue collar job which can earned in half the time with half the cost.
The question is not to focus on what the average college degree will bring you but to look at your own constellation of strengths and weaknesses and see what is going to fit you best whether it is a college degree, a vocational school or a trade school and who will you be competing against. Maybe the reason why we call it the American dream is because it only exists when we go to sleep and as we wake up we get a taste of the American nightmare.
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