$15/hr minimum wage

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(08-08-2018, 08:00 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Purely anecdotal evidence, but when I was in school, we did go to visit a trade school late during my Sophomore year... but to offset that they spent the previous 5 years+ telling us nonstop that we needed to go to college to be successful. How poor we'd be if we didn't go to college, etc.

I have a decent amount of friends who got degrees, but not a ton of them ended up getting jobs that actually pertain to their degree. For the first handful of years especially, there were a lot of pizza delivery/bartender jobs after spending 4 years and a bunch of money.

I don't think trade schools are given their proper positive light because everyone who is teaching you is someone with a college degree, and almost always a masters degree to boot. There's a stigma they create over working with your hands rather than getting "educated".

Ah, well people I know who went to college either work jobs that require degrees, or they work for their parents' businesses.  I know people who are teachers, doctors, professors, advertising executive types, dentists, child psychologist/therapists and so on.  I went to grad school and had a job in NYC where everyone had a relevant degree and was using it.  And I can only speak for myself, but at no point did I sit around with my educated buddies and rag on how stupid people who go to trade school are.

I just never saw this sort of animosity between people who go to college and people who don't, personally. I will say that I have a friend who, like me, was one of the first people in his family to go to college. My family was supportive and thought it was great and his family laughed at him and asked him why he was afraid of getting a real job. I think this might be a person-by-person basis and not some sort of Sharks vs the Jets scenario.