To College Or Not
An examination of prospects.
I have a pair of college degrees. I didn’t use either of them to any significant extent as my interests took me elsewhere shortly after I graduated.
The Boomerism of the economy I graduated into out of high school and then college was brutal.
Hiring managers needed that piece of paper.
I never could shake the feeling that my intelligence was the single most important qualifying factor for the many hundreds of jobs I applied to.
And yet I was rebuffed.
Then when I had one college degree, suddenly I was “overqualified” and I was supposed to feel ashamed for applying to menial work during the Great Recession.
When I finished my Masters, I did have some cachet, I thought, but then so did a bunch of tubby, low intelligence people who managed to also stomach the various hoops one has to go through to get a post-grad degree.
Eventually, I decided to go live by my wits. I started to leave out my college degrees from resumes, which resulted in success, but more than that, I decided to simply use my people skills to put myself into the positions I needed to be in.
This was the gamechanger.
There has been a wonderful changeover in the American economy spurred on by President Trump and Elon Musk.
Particularly Elon Musk.
As the richest man in the world on the books, he has continually emphasized merit, capability, and intelligence as the qualifying factors for employment.
He has not only revolutionized car manufacturing, AI, and aerospace engineering, he has harkened us all to America’s capitalistic fundamentals of the 20th Century - the ones that made the post-War boom burn so brightly.
Elon prizes excellence and long, arduous hours. This has been totally at odds with the woke, lazy, entitled culture coming from the higher education institutions. To a lesser extent, they have had to bend to his requirements. After all, he is one of the top employers in his industries.
Before Elon, it was all Obama all the time. It was utterly dreadful. The majority of my 20’s were spent under the Obama debacle. It could be hard to not be demoralized at times, given the dramatic, rapid decline he oversaw. I found healthy ways out but it was a high pressure eight years.
When we get into the question of whether to get a college degree or not, I side on the Not side of the debate.
This is in part predicated upon the fact that the universities have completely destroyed their credibility by emphasizing grievance politics and socialism over employability and market dynamics.
When Boomers were young, universities still prized meritocracy. To gain a professorship, you had to actually demonstrate excellence and achievement in the field. Now you just have to show you have the proper degrees and aren’t a White Male.
People will caterwaul that there exceptions to the rule and so therefore put yourself in crippling debt in order to attain some unactionable, distant brownie points that you can pat yourself on the back with. There will always be some intellectual trick to put yourself into the university environment, especially if you’re young and are experiencing economic security.
The fact of the matter is that most people who are young and have economic insecurity are there because they’re too immature and scared to actually talk to people. Talking to people is the genesis of PROVING VALUE.
It’s much easier to go onto websites, as a social cripple, and have Sallie Mae foot a huge bill you dissociate from in order so that you can persist in a debt bubble for a few years until you emerge into reality: debt slavery.
If you actually developed your EQ (to quote the late great Kevin Samuels), you’d realize the price for not developing social skills is too great. Millions of people out there would rather go into $10k or $15k or even up to $25k a year debt just because they can’t walk into places that could be hiring and talk to the most alpha person in the business.
Think of it.
A “labor shortage” because working age people are too smartphone addicted.
A single conversation could save a person $10k and months of being blabbed to by professors when you could just pay $10 a month for a premium AI subscription.
It’s so sad what people reduce themselves to because they refuse to work their options.
I made the choice to simply pursue my interests and live by my will, come what may, at a time when AI was a whisper on the wind. I am indeed made of stern stuff!
People have become so mollycoddled, because of their digital pacifiers, that they won’t hit the pavement and talk to people. They have no idea what hiring managers in their prospective fields want. They just fork over money to the universities. They can’t possibly imagine having a FRIEND who hooks you up with a job. That may as well be dreaming of California blonde surfer girls roller-skating off into a Reaganesque sunset.
This shows a tremendous lack of self-leadership. And self-leadership writ large means the death of civilizations. People have such video game brain that they’d rather treat life like a succession of getting permission from various colored LGBT womyn with boring conversation trees than a Doom FPS where you romp and stomp.
Why work in a field where they’re so backwards and out of touch that they require college degrees over professional certifications? Why work in a field where Boomerisms have more cachet than your network? Why work for the government? The government is the only institution outside of the universities themselves that even bandstands for college degrees.
Meanwhile tradesmen who go into business for themselves are making $200-500k in major US cities.
Imagine needing social approval and being in a debt/welfare bubble so badly that you forgo that kind of money.
I sure hope this isn’t the mindset of my readers.
America used to be a place where you could MAKE YOURSELF.
Now it’s a cultureless welfare toilet where everyone wants to be famous and have banker friends.
The Final Boss of “go to college” (places where the 6ft. distancing rule from the CDC were rigidly enforced) is the whole “there’s a good old boys network”. College is great for networking, they say authoritatively.
But have you even tried to build a network without the “help” of a college?
The answer is a deadass NO. The most resounding NO you’ve ever heard. A no like the thunder from a giant church bell.
So what’s really happening?
People wanted to be parented by the university they choose.
They want to avoid that which their conscience compels them to do: connect with others.
This is no way to live!
Guys just can’t tolerate being in the free market for any amount of time. So they shunt themselves away in globalist daycare clinics while they meagerly patch up their hurt egos from having mothers who didn’t love them enough.
I know…cause I’ve been there.
Burn it down.
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