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Kids are ditching traditional college for career tech programs. Parents are concerned.
(www.usatoday.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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they're talking about people who are actively witnessing degree inflation, student debt, people applying for 100 jobs to get 3 interviews, and not getting picked anyway because of nepotism-- not to mention the obliteration of the dept of education and grant moneys going up in smoke. i'm well over 40 with a masters, and i would 100% choose something other than a 4 year degree at this point
Don't forget that if you dare take any of that knowledge and use it to exercise your free speech, the university can just deny the degree you earned and paid for at the behest of the government.
If you're lucky. Or they could Bob Lazar you. I'm unsure of all of his claims but the government 100% deleted his degree and ruined his life.
I have two degrees and a certification and I work on an assembly line in a factory. If I had to do it all over again, I'd sure as hell chose a different path.
Jfc. That sucks.
Yeah. At least I make a pretty decent living for now.
Schools already shit the bed by hiring 3rd party consulting like rpkGroup to “streamline” budgets/programs, and now they’re going to be cutting even more. Add that to the recent legislation which re-fucked student loans even more, targets schools that don’t have a good “ROI,” stripped funding, and now you’ve got a bunch of hollowed-out institutions too scared to do anything but train ChatGPT-brainrot kids on whatever the hottest job market is, completely saturating it within two years. But I have a feeling the college sports schools will somehow be ok. Can’t disappoint FanDuel.
Wait until you hear how many profiles you need to swipe on to get 3 dates