Posted by JD Seller on February 25, 2018 at 08:09:08 from (208.126.196.24):
In Reply to: Raining day thoughts posted by Grandpa love on February 25, 2018 at 06:20:58:
The trouble is going to be that they need marketable skills that they can PROVE they have. There are lots of jobs that require a college degree to just get past the front door. I usually argue that a college degree is not worth much but you will start working at the bottom of the ladder in most places. In bigger companies you will never advance very far without some type of degree. So your children may do very well in life without any kind of degree but they are sure limiting their choices. This is really true in the south where wages are generally much lower for regular "labor" type of jobs.
My older four children all have degrees of some type. My youngest barely got through high school. I did manage to get him to take a welding coarse that enabled him to get his certification. With that he ahs been able to get pretty good jobs. The only trouble I see is he going to want to be still just a welder when he is 40?? or 50???
My second oldest works for a fortune 500 company that requires a minimum of a BA degree to even get into any position over grunt at the bottom pay scale. He started out with just his BA and worked towards his masters. That degree coupled with hard work got him the job he has now. His base pay is $125K a year. He usually adds another $25K in bonuses.
So realize that not having a degree will put an upper limit on what your kids will be able to make in their life times. Is that fair?? NO but it is the truth in today's society. Those that run the majority of the companies and almost all the politicians have degrees of some sort. They use it as a measuring stick to sort people into jobs.
Big Tee cartoon is funny but, with less than 30% of the country having union jobs, it is not based on facts. High wage jobs with good benefits are not very common these days for people without provable skills.
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