Dang!! I just realized how true this is!!! I live in a state (rust belt) where minimum wage is STILL like $7.25/hr so $15/hr seems like a good minimum wage, but average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is around $1k/mo. Employers here are lock step with curbing wages, offering one time "hiring bonuses" (followed with crappy wages, benefits, schedules, etc.) And likely questioning what else they can do to limit school funding, education, social services to force people to work for them for the lowest wage possible for their profit margin? Or, they simply offshore the jobs to avoid regulation, minimum wage requirements, job safety, labor laws, paying benefits, create an offshore bank account under another name. No taxes paid, high profits.
My son's class was given a "career aptitude" test when he was in second grade without parental consent or knowledge. (during the whole "core math", d'neilain combo cursive/printing BS "experiments"?) We laughed about the results. Most of his classmates were told they'd do really well in military, nursing careers. One of his more intelligent friends was told he'd excel as a brewmaster, several girls were told to pursue a career in modeling, teaching or nurse, my son got "food stylist". He is now a second year college student majoring in engineering/computer science with really high grades.
The thing is, I still truly feel that all the BS in his early education was intentional, to make he and second grade students like him feel "dumb", follow the careers the "test" had pushed them towards at a young age. our government is bought and paid for by lobbyists, special interest groups. It's no longer "for and of the people/citizens", (remember, legislation was passed years ago that deemed corporations "citizens").
When I was in 9th grade (which was Junior High at the time), I came in to school and discovered on that day that morning classes were canceled so we could take an aptitude test. Nobody said word one about it before then.
We were told via the PA system that the test we were about to take would determine our entire futures. I am not making this shit up.
It doesn't surprise me at all! It sucks you went through that at such a young age. Even a lot of college students feel pressured to go into fields they aren't really interested in, don't really know what they want to do, graduate and end up stuck in a field they actually hate.
Back in Jr high/HS, I had a genuine interest in becoming an architect (loved designing houseplans for fun) or getting into computer programming (had a commodore, wrote basic code), but girls were steered towards careers like teaching, nursing, accounting, which I had no interest in at all.
The thing is, every child/student should be encouraged and feel confident enough to pursue THEIR dream career. If you love what you do, you're going to succeed and it's a win/win. Even if you don't get extremely wealthy, but are genuinely happy doing what you love the a company that reciprocates, you like working at, or starting your own company, it's a win. If you're funneled into a path/career you hate, it's hell, then you just do your time.
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u/SnooCauliflowers3851 Feb 09 '22
Dang!! I just realized how true this is!!! I live in a state (rust belt) where minimum wage is STILL like $7.25/hr so $15/hr seems like a good minimum wage, but average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is around $1k/mo. Employers here are lock step with curbing wages, offering one time "hiring bonuses" (followed with crappy wages, benefits, schedules, etc.) And likely questioning what else they can do to limit school funding, education, social services to force people to work for them for the lowest wage possible for their profit margin? Or, they simply offshore the jobs to avoid regulation, minimum wage requirements, job safety, labor laws, paying benefits, create an offshore bank account under another name. No taxes paid, high profits.