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I put myself through community college, got 2 AAS degrees. I'm doing pretty good for myself. Before college, I usually worked around minimum wage and hated every single soul sucking job I had just to barely scrape by. This was early 2000s... we had real dollar menu meals and $5 footlong subs, ya'll who be out there surviving these days you're built different and you have my respect.
Anywho, if I hadn't gone to college and did something with my life, I promise you I would have ended myself. That's not hyperbole, I had 2 failed attempts before college already.
I wish people would stop demonizing college. Especially in the US, we have more and more uneducated people because you have people on the internet (mostly on video format) telling people, "Oh yeah, college was a scam, I dropped out and I make millions, and speaking of millions, this video is brought to you by....."
It saddens me to see terrible advice like this meme, implying college was a waste. Or that hundreds of people upvoted it.
And yes, I know, college is fucking expensive in the US. It was expensive when I went and we were arguing about it then and I know it's gotten worse. But we shouldn't be celebrating ignorance, we should be fighting to get our education back.
People say that because going to college is becoming exponentially expensive. It gets meaningfully worse year over year
Education is great, learning is more then half of the joy of life. The education system in our country is absolutely broken. Both these things are true
You can still come out on top in a broken system. I did. I have no regrets, no debt. But as a whole, it's just getting worse all the time