$5/hour? You could buy a Colt Peacemaker after 3 hours and 10 minutes in those days
I shopped in the wrong places in 1992.
$5/hour? You could buy a Colt Peacemaker after 3 hours and 10 minutes in those days
I shopped in the wrong places in 1992.
I shopped in the wrong places in 1892.
Trade school is a great option for many people. Probably way more people than choose it.
However, that cartoon is misleading on both ends and after 7 years of post high-school education and 19 years of practice....what I started out at, even after law school, is completely irrelevant. Assuming that welder estimate is right, I made less than that as a new attorney. As a new attorney. I wasn't new for very long.
Trade school is a great option for many people. Probably way more people than choose it.
However, that cartoon is misleading on both ends and after 7 years of post high-school education and 19 years of practice....what I started out at, even after law school, is completely irrelevant. Assuming that welder estimate is right, I made less than that as a new attorney. As a new attorney. I wasn't new for very long.
I'm pretty sure Kelly confused you with Churchmouse.
I can't find it, but there was one that showed a woman, pointing to a garbage man, telling her kid to study or he'll be like that.
Next frame, a woman points at the garbage man and tells her son, look at that man, he has a job, supports his family, etc.
Ditto.
Going into my senior year of high school, Dad had me & a friend bury a water line (digging a ditch by hand) 30 inches deep and 100 feet long. I asked him why we didn't rent a trencher. He replied "I want you to have something to fall back on in case that whole college education thing doesn't work out."
Forty years later, I can still handle a shovel as well as anyone, but it was a great lesson in the contrast of working hard vs. working smart.
Everybody age-griefs CM. He ain't that much older than me and I age-grief him too but I gotta spread it around. HM might (by his next post) actually be younger than me, but when you invoke $5/hour I might go cleared-hot on the target, it's just my nature. That is all.
I have told all my kids and any others who will listen that in most jobs the harder you work the less you might make. Work smart.
I may be in the minority on this, but a degree still gives you a leg up on the competition. College graduates still make more money over the course of their lifetimes than HS/trade school folks, something like a $1M more. People that go into the trade professions, often don't have many options if they should lose their employment, conversely a college grade can move seamlessly (regardless of major) into a variety of "degree required" fields. That's not a knock on the non-degreed folks, you obviously can be very successful in the trade fields, but a degree in most instances is more valuable.
One of my closest friends is a high school drop out with a GED. Works from home in the IT field unless they need him on sute where they fly him in and put him up in nice hotels and an expense account. Makes 6 figures. Thy man has worked his ass off to get where he is and I couldn’t think of a better example of what America is and can be.Without knowing a skilled trade or owning your own business in which is a skilled trade, you'll more than likely struggle your whole life unless you are super content with having hardly nothing at all. Of course you have the exceptions but if it were the norm then no one would spend money on a secondary education if they were gonna earn the same as someone who has an associates or higher degree. Hough said it best, you need to assess what you want to do in life and see if college is necessary then assess your cost vs. what you'll make to see if it's worth it. If I would've stayed working in that factory while I was going to school then I'd still be making $35-$40k/yr working 5 days a week. But I spent $10k at a community college and got an associates degree and more than doubled my yearly salary and only work 4 days a week. My decision how allowed my wife to be a stay at home mom and home school our 5 kids.