re: Why send your kid to college?

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Why send your kid to college?

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Because education is a good thing?

Sure do pushy then I will kick your arse too professional license boy.

Haha good for you douche bag frick

There are plenty of very well paying jobs out there,folks just have to get off their lazy butts and pursue them.

A little sweat and hard work never hurt anyone.

You are on the right path.

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College used to be about cultivating intellectual curiosity and expanding the mind.
Now it’s nothing more than a training ground for gaining a job and meeting society needs.
In that light, there are multiple, more cost effective ways to develop a skill set for employment.

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Employers used to train you if you had a college degree - in fact, all higher-end jobs required a college degree...it was the first step in the door, it showed you were smart enough to train. (What a misconception that was...it meant you had money and wanted to take off 4 years of your life before beginning adulthood and having to work.)

Now all employers want is skill - they don't have the time to train you and you're not going to be a "company man" at that place for 40 years.

I love the scene in Secret of My Success...when Michael J. Fox is interviewing for Wall Street jobs and everyone is turning him down...

And the interviewer says, sorry we require experience and skill.

And Fox responds: "Well, why the hell did I go to College then?"

Interviewer: "You had fun, right?"

And this was back in the 80's. It's even more useless now like a degree in 19th century French poetry.

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assume you work for someone

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Do you really? Really? Reeeaaalllllyyyy?

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If what they want to do requires a college degree and they have proven that they are responsible enough to not get to school and fart around for six years why wouldn't you pay as much as you can to help them?

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Let me see. They are getting free room and board at mom and dad's as opposed to paying for a dorm. That's one help there. More than likely m&d are paying for the car and insurance that little Johnny is driving around town. That's number two. In my case, I helped pay for some of the books my stepson need for classes. That's number three.

Exactly at what age in your kid's life do you cut the cord? Remember, I said why should parents put themselves into debt when little Johnny can do the same to himself? Rich parents? The financial burden on them doesn't apply.

Here's a question for you. If blue collar parents can squeeze by in helping little Johnny with his finances, should he pay them back?

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No one on here went to MIT.

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You sure?

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I got a lot of full tuition scholarships

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And yet you still don't know the difference between the subject and the object in a sentence:

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my parents had this discussion with...I when...

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No one sent me to college, I decided to go to better myself and learn things like English, and how to use it to express ideas and shite.

I could've made more money not going to college and doing work I hated, but I chose to go to college and work at a job I love. Money isn't everything, happiness and grammar count for something.