"I don't feel special or entitled..."

[Kuciwalker]

If you have a college degree, or especially a graduate degree, you are rich ipso facto.

qft

[MrFun]

You have exactly the kind of degree I've been talking about so thanks for proving my point.

So I'm supposed to be punished for pursuing a field that I'm interested in, and that I have skills in, thinking that I live in a country in where I can pursue the career of my choice?

[Hauldren Collider]

We don't hate poor people, we hate rich kids who were handed the world on a ****ing platter and managed to spill it all over the floor.

QFMFT

[regexcellent]

So I'm supposed to be punished for pursuing a field that I'm interested in, and that I have skills in, thinking that I live in a country in where I can pursue the career of my choice?

Yes

That desribes to a T what I've been complaining about this whole time. Feeling entitled to have a job because you have a degree, even though it's in something you're interested in rather than something that's useful.

[MRT144]

You have exactly the kind of degree I've been talking about so thanks for proving my point.

So even if we entertain this idea that choices are the end all be all...

You don't think theres a fundamental problem with the college education system that bilks students out of money for useless degrees, by your own outlook on life? Like the real problem is people choose classes offered by the university with departments full of people in that subject...

Your answer of "well not every person should go to college" is ignorant of what employers deem important and fundamental. I am unable to get a large amount of jobs because I lack a bachelors degree, and while my opinion on what is pertinent to job function might be interesting, the fact remains, I am beholden in opportunities by employers requirements, rightly or wrongly.

I find it ridiculous that STEM is the end all be all of valid education in America, or at least is the primrose path to financial security in the country. People without those aptitudes should just take a seat, shut up, and make me a coffee and not complain one iota about it...

[Lorizael]

I pity any children you lot might have who make the incorrect choice about their education.

[MRT144]

If you have a college degree, or especially a graduate degree, you are rich ipso facto.

What you don't know about government work, requirements and salaries could fill a barn. Social workers are not rich in anything but spirit.

[MRT144]

I pity any children you lot might have who make the incorrect choice about their education.

I would love to see Reg be cold an indifferent to their child after they get a degree in sociology and then go to law school and have a hard time finding a job.

"Should have made better choices, now get off my lawn hippie"

[regexcellent]

I pity any children you lot might have who make the incorrect choice about their education.

They're certainly not getting any of my money.

What you don't know about government work, requirements and salaries could fill a barn. Social workers are not rich in anything but spirit.

Evidently they're rich in bad decisions.

I would love to see Reg be cold and indifferent to his child after he gets a degree in sociology and then goes to law school and has a hard time finding a job.

"Should have made better choices, now get off my lawn hippie"

Tough love

(also fixed your grammar for you)

[Lorizael]

They're certainly not getting any of my money.

Yes, that's why I pity them.

[MRT144]

I mean, what Im constantly seeing is this attitude that people should break themselves to conform to a society, irrespective of situation. God forbid we change things in society or at the very least a government level to adapt to the current circumstances surrounding the citizenry.

[MrFun]

Yes

That desribes to a T what I've been complaining about this whole time. Feeling entitled to have a job because you have a degree, even though it's in something you're interested in rather than something that's useful.

I do not have any sense of entitlement.

If I did have any sense of entitlement, I would believe that I should be given something without having to work for it.

[regexcellent]

I mean, what Im constantly seeing is this attitude that people should break themselves to conform to a society, irrespective of situation. God forbid we change things in society or at the very least a government level to adapt to the current circumstances surrounding the citizenry.

Conforming to society's expectations and respecting authority are a key part of maturity.

[Kuciwalker]

So even if we entertain this idea that choices are the end all be all...

You don't think theres a fundamental problem with the college education system that bilks students out of money for useless degrees, by your own outlook on life? Like the real problem is people choose classes offered by the university with departments full of people in that subject...

There are three fundamental problems:

1) Government intervention that mutes the price mechanism.
2) Cultural tropes that tell people to pursue their dreams blah blah. It is really really easy to look up the job prospects for a given career ahead of time, much easier than actually going through with four years of college.
3) The continued existence of academic departments that are ideologically committed to education as something other than job preparation.

Fix any of the three and I suspect the other two would wither away and die.

[Lorizael]

Conforming to society's expectations and respecting authority are a key part of maturity.

As long as that authority isn't the government.