DunDunDunpachi
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Yes, I do feel a general twinge of sympathy for the people who got scammed, but I dodged the college bullet and did so willfully. I had friends ~4+ years older than me who did the college thing. They were not partiers or slackers, either. They studied hard and finished college only to get mediocre jobs. Half of them ended up enlisting, and this was during the Bush Jr years.It's fucked up.
I'd love to know what some of the ringleaders are actually studying.
When I went to university after high school it's like I was being sent to get a qualification to then get a fucking decent job.
No way I would have been getting myself into protests and other pointless shit. You were there to learn the stuff that will allow you to make some money in your career.
Sure, there was drinking and partying and joining clubs etc but the focus was always on the serious task of getting a qualification.
You look at these videos and it's like "what the fuck are these kids doing". Imagine wasting days at a time to get rid of a "racist" tutor or to make sure that the president of the place checks his privilege.
It's like you go to college to learn how to be an activist and then use what you've learned to get the college shut down and then fuck off to be a games journalist or e-begger or just be unemployed.
This generation of college-trained dummies has guaranteed me a lifelong career of not being an unreliable flake. The job market standard is so low now because most of the college-trained applicants are idiots. I don't say this spitefully or out of ignorance: I've done hundreds upon hundreds of interviews, call-backs, job fairs, etc. in several industries. Credentials often end up being static/noise because every applicant carries the same generic, useless "certification" that has little to nothing to do with your field.
I will never want for middle-class work again. Me! An uneducated dullard. Me, someone lacking any degree from any college or university. I even dropped out of community college I was so undisciplined and "stupid". Didn't matter anyway.
The floor will drop out over the next 10 years for the university scam. Religious private institutions will weather the storm just fine (ironic). My generation is screwed, but if my kids want to go to college, there will be enough schools that "wake up" and begin providing a worthwhile education by the time they are old enough to attend.
I am happy to live in a post-university world.
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