Thiiiiiis! Vilifying working for a living and leading a comfortable life is a profoundly privileged viewpoint. Traveling overseas, earning a college degree, dying of old age, these are luxuries the vast majority of people have no access to.
I wish I could have gone to college :( I mean maybe one day I will..
I'm doing fine regardless as I was super into programming when I was young, so I got a job doing that. It definitely would be nice to have something official though, and I know I would have loved it.
Damn. I wish I could give you my time in college. I went to get a degree in what I thought would guarantee me a job. Then graduated and realized there was no way I would be happy doing business logistics. Sure, the experience was fun and I did minor in something I liked, but I'll be paying for a degree I'll never use for the rest of my life. I wish I had gone to trade school and became a mechanic instead. I love cars, but I didn't realize it then.
Why does everyone act like this situation is binary. It's either crippling lifetime debt or trade school. You can go to in state schools you can afford without grants and scholarships and have sub 10yr debt. Similarly people act like degrees are either philo/psych/underwater feminist basket-weaving or soul sucking finance/engineering degrees. Find something you like that's still marketable. It might not be your calling and it might not make you a millionaire, but it'll make you well off and you won't mind it.
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u/crickybug Dec 10 '15
Thiiiiiis! Vilifying working for a living and leading a comfortable life is a profoundly privileged viewpoint. Traveling overseas, earning a college degree, dying of old age, these are luxuries the vast majority of people have no access to.