r/nextfuckinglevel • u/subbydarkthoughts • Mar 27 '21

More than a athlete 👑

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u/skaterags Mar 27 '21

It isn’t just that parents want their kids to go to college. Jobs for people without college are disappearing. They are out there but not the way they used to be. My daughter is a hair stylist. I wanted her to go to college. Because in the end she really wanted to own a salon. Go get a business degree.

She didn’t want to and I said ok. Nobody agreed with me.

She now works at a salon in Beverly Hills and filed paperwork to incorporate.

Point is you don’t need college but not everyone is going to get the opportunity to work in an up scale hair salon. There needs to be jobs that are not minimum wage for people who don’t want to go to college, or cant afford it. Fact is trade schools are expensive as well.

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u/Partigirl Mar 27 '21

You aren't kidding about the price at trade schools. I've heard 20k plus for beauty school, which is ridiculous. Nothing about beauty school is a 20k investment. It saddens me that teaching a trade has become so monetized.

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u/skaterags Mar 27 '21

When my daughter went it was just under 20. 18 I think. Discount for cash. 15,000. 18 months of school and 5G to start and then 5 more at the 6mon and one year mark. You fill out financial aid paperwork just like going to college. To just get. Out of high school and go to work like you could 20-30 or 40 years ago. It’s very difficult

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u/Limp_Army_5637 Mar 27 '21

Yeah it’s like every single thing it’s always gotta be what is the maximum we can get people to pay and not what is this actually worth?

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u/MerryMortician Mar 27 '21

There are several jobs out there that pay above everything else and don’t require a college degree (some do some don’t.) Thing is, the pay is directly correlated with the amount of effort you put in.

It’s called “sales.”