Has anyone read "College is for Suckers"?

[TwixVoy]

Has anyone read "College is for Suckers"?

Damn good book I am just finishing. It matches my observations from the brief time I spent in college.

I remember many years ago sitting down with a course counselor (or whatever the hell they are called now) at a university in my city. I was working full time back then. (I have worked 40+ hour weeks since the time I left high school) I asked him if he could help me find classes around my work schedule. I remember him telling me "Well, if you have to work you don't really belong at this school".

At the time I felt bad about it, but in retrospect it was the best advice ever. Had I taken loans I would have left that school over $100K in debt.

When I worked retail management for the past few years I can't tell you how many suckers were starting out in store level management after getting a degree in psychology or some such completely unrelated degree. They were all usually in massive debt.... and the salary for retail store management is.... well lets just say they are looking at 20 years of debt.

Now I am a technician for a major telecom. Most of my coworkers have degrees. The young ones coming in are in massive student loan debt. Here I am with my diploma learning with on the job training doing the same work at the same pay. They got suckered in by the student loan/college BUSINESS.

I have to say.... it is a breeze to compete against this generation coming in to the work force. Half of them lack work ethic, are hateful, mean, generally have trouble getting along well with coworkers, entitled, and can't even seem to show up to work on time. We have these dumb ass kids coming in with "degrees" talking about their belief the "degree" is going to get them a top level management spot any time now regardless of how inexperienced and irresponsible they are on the job.

I can see major problems coming down the road though. All these people getting in to massive student loan debt with the belief they will have the income to pay it off in a reasonable time.... Not going to be pretty when reality sets in.