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Yes, now that's kick in the ass for those Millennials!

In the future of America, if you are not in the lucky sperm club, or have a government job or get a rape and pillage political office, you will be living huddled in a wet cardboard box with your Starbucks, Iphone and $160,000 coffee coaster (formerly known as a college diploma).

Gosh... I'da thought Jojo would have been all over this one.

Seems to me they are perfectly qualified to go into politics?

Call it Crazy says

That's because you WON'T hear it from your parents.... The parents are the assholes that let you take on that debt and go into useless majors....

Whose parents? My parents told me to study something practical, i.e. accounting, premed, engineering, paralegal (whatever the heck that is), or the Police Academy.

If I'd told my dad that I wanted to be a history or fine arts major, he'd tell me to go f' myself.

History = elective time, not a major.

turtledove says

Gosh... I'da thought Jojo would have been all over this one.

Even trolls have to take a little time off every now and then.

Rin says

paralegal (whatever the heck that is)

Is that anything like the paranormal?

Ohhh spooky!

That will also scare me. Education provides useful information for students, teachers, and parents. It was said that, a country's ability to learn from the leader is a function of its stock of "human capital". Recent study of the determinants of aggregate economic growth have stressed the importance of fundamental economic institutions and the role of cognitive skills. Experts from the University of California, LA, found in a recent study of freshman students that price is a massive factor in college selection. It should be. Tuition is increasing along with debt loads and joblessness for recent graduates.

Call it Crazy says

That's because you WON'T hear it from your parents.... The parents are the assholes that let you take on that debt and go into useless majors....

Not so, if your parents don't suck.

My wife got the opposite lecture..."while it would be nice to go to [insert your favorite university here], you would have to take on a significant amount of debt. I suggest you take the scholarship from the state school..."

She graduated with about $2500 (not a typo) in debt. Does she have regrets about not getting to experience a grand liberal arts education at Smith (or wherever the fuck), yes! Is she glad that she was able to pay off the sum total of her debt in her first year in the workforce? You bet!

I say parents who "get it" and don't have their heads up their vicarious living, keep up with the Joneses, competitive, striving, brag-about-your-offspring-to-co-workers-who-don't-fucking-matter-anyway asses....do exist! And they can give sound advice. The other ones? I say they can go fuck themselves. Not all parents suck, just a some of them.

I have a few degrees, some more practical than others. I've had lots of great jobs, lived in Europe a few times and paid my relatively tiny debt off in a handful of payments. Even had free tuition for one BA due to my service.

Apparently, there are always good jobs for the smart, charming and attractive people. And when you're a triple threat you can study whatever you want!

If you are poor or middle class you can't afford an "easy" major. Pick mechanical engineering and you'll be able to provide for your family. Pick business major and you'll retire rich.

Call it Crazy says

swebb says

I say parents who "get it" and don't have their heads up their vicarious living, keep up with the Joneses, competitive, striving, brag-about-your-offspring-to-co-workers-who-don't-fucking-matter-anyway asses....do exist!

Unfortunately, they are way few and far between....

Or they are like me. There was NO WAY I could afford to put my kids through school. Plus both girls had no idea what they wanted to do when they got out of school - SOOOO. They (both) joined the Army. Best move (for them) EVER. The amount of growing up that took place was astounding. One is now a wife and mother, married to a soldier. She has GI benefits when she wants/needs them. The other one is working for the Social Security office which she wouldn't even have been eligible to interview for if she hadn't been a veteran. And she is pursing a degree via the GI bill.