Reply #319: I worked in a restaurant several years ago [View All]

[FooFootheSnoo]

half the waiters and waitresses had bachelors degrees. They were mainly in areas like communications, criminology, psychology. I think one had a degree in anthropology. These poor people went to school for 4 years to work as a waiter or waitress? At my last job, which was a dead end shithole, about a third of the employees had college degrees. In every job I've ever worked at I've worked with people with college degrees as my coworkers, not necessarily as my boss. I think it was mainly because these people thought they were supposed to go to college, but didn't really need to be there. Some found after a few years that their degree would be worthless. Some found they went to school for four years and hated their field.

I think trade school is an excellent idea for new high school graduates. It's relatively inexpensive and much shorter than college. They can get out and work in the "real world" for a couple of years before deciding when and why they should pursue a college degree. They can work their way through college with a decent wage. In some cases, their employers may even pay for the education. If they don't like the trade they chose, they've only wasted a year or two training and can always go back and learn another trade. It just seems so much more practical to me. It's what I will encourage my daughter to do.