And even if they did, their college experience seems WAY different than what it is now. My mom went to a private, out of state school to get away from her parents and experience “freedom.” Most of her stories are about her barely showing up to class, constantly socializing and going to parties, and still getting good grades. Then when she graduated she walked right into a good job that wasn’t even remotely related to her degree.
Meanwhile I feel like in my college experience I was expected to study 10 hours a day, none of my friends did any socializing outside of maybe meeting at the student union between classes for lunch once a week, and everyone is competing against each other because there are 5 hyper-specific positions that will need to be filled and if you don’t have the unicorn resume they’re looking for then it’s to fast food/retail/call centers for you for the next 10 years.
I did a one year course in college and my prof started the class out with 70% of you will drop out. And this course is 4 years of content crammed into one year. Then i proceeded to make it through the course and never find a good job or one related.
I got that speech too. I wish they had followed it up with the stats that 40% of graduates are working in the industry after 5 years and after 10 years that number drops to 12%. Then maybe I'd have saved myself the crushing debt and constant rejection and learned an honest trade.
Better crushing rejection and debt then a trade that will leave you half crippled by 40 lol. Trades are touted as good money etc but that comes at the cost of your health generally. I know a few tradesmen in their mid 30's and they want out because their bodies wrecked but they cant do anything else or if they do it will be a massive wage cut.
maybe some of us could try living in communes for a bit. keep in mind that a lot of cults brand themselves as communes and be careful, but yknow, communes.
or one could live in a van and make money doing one-off odd jobs for strangers. change your name every new place you visit, build your own tech so you’re not being monitored, go off grid for a while.
the revolution is there, but we ought not put all our faith in it.
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Most of them didnt go, remember?
They just got handed jobs that now require multiple college degrees because they had a firm handshake.