Boomer Facebook posted:

"A young man with his pants hanging half off his rear, two gold front teeth, and a half inch thick gold chain around his neck, walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check.

He marched up to the counter and said, "Hi. You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job. I don't like taking advantage of the system, getting something for nothing."

The social worker behind the counter said "Your timing is excellent. We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur and bodyguard for his beautiful daughter. You'll have to drive around in his 2018 Mercedes-Benz GT, and he will supply all of your clothes."

"Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll also be expected to escort the daughter on her overseas holiday trips. This is rather awkward to say, but you will also have, as part of your job, the assignment to satisfy her sexual urges as the daughter is in her mid-20's and has a rather strong sex drive."

The guy, just plain wide-eyed, said, "You're bull-shittin' me!"
The social worker said, "Yeah, well . . . You started it . . . . “

Ron Jeremy posted:

Hello Sailor posted:

"Why didn't you say the welfare recipient was black? We both know you wanted to."

Ron Jeremy posted:

jojoinnit posted:

Boomer Facebook lol

Invalid Validation posted:

Really weird cause she doesn’t do anything since they really don’t have press conferences anymore.

Invalid Validation posted:

Really weird cause she doesn’t do anything since they really don’t have press conferences anymore.

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

you guys wanna hear the worst poo poo? one of my very online (and aging) uncles has discovered the use of mass text to send poo poo you'd find in this thread. FreedomWire articles straight to my brain, glug glug

"Patriotic Truth" posted:

The elitist college professors use the campus as a leftist propaganda institution.

The likelihood that college graduates will obtain a high-paying job with a four-year degree is diminishing.

That is not to say all college is a waste of time. Some degrees are very useful. For example, students who attend medical school or earn engineering degrees do very well.

However, college isn’t for everyone. And the push for college has hurt the American economy.

Blue-collar workers have been looked down upon for years; a push by elitists to attend college has left the economy with a shortage of high-skilled blue-collar jobs.

But our kids must go to school to get a degree in feminist studies and to be taught to hate America; that is more important.

Colleges are overwhelmingly staffed with leftist college professors; their paychecks depend on parents sending their kids to leftist campus propaganda mills.

There is dignity in working with one’s hands; earning money and supporting one’s family through hard work is a noble pursuit.

The elitists on our college campuses are wrong to suggest that a four-year degree is the only way to obtain a high-quality job.

In fact, millennials are more likely to get paid more getting hands-on experience through an apprenticeship and other vocational training.

Earnings for holders of four-year degrees have dropped over the past decade. In 2008, more than one-third of college graduates worked at occupations such as waiting tables and manning cash registers, jobs traditionally held by non-college graduates.

That social justice waitress of yours—who hates her life—may well have earned a degree in gender studies, and is now asking people like you for your drink order. It wasn’t worth the thousands of dollars in student loan debt.

There is an oversupply of jobs that require a college degree.

Graduates with degrees in computer science and law are having a hard time getting a job.

Through 2016, the number of graduates in the information field will be three times the number of job openings.

Law schools are pumping out more lawyers than the market needs. Thirty percent of those passing the bar exam aren’t even working in the profession.

Why is there a shortage of blue-collar workers?

One reason is because millennials don’t want to get their hands dirty. Put simply: They are lazy.

Today’s youth tend to regard trade crafts such as plumbing, masonry, and carpentry as below their standards.

They would rather drink craft beer and play Xbox—while complaining about the greedy capitalists—than work hard with their hands.

There is a negative perception about blue-collar jobs.

Mike Rowe, host of Dirty Jobs on Discovery Channel, has observed this trend. He said, “Higher education is in one column and everything else is called alternative. And those kinds of pursuits are reserved for people who are somehow deficient or somehow not cut out for the desirable path… What’s aspirational about ‘middle skill’? It’s going to take a generation to get people to really challenge the stereotypes.”

He is right.

For too long, high-skilled trade jobs have been derided. It is time for this to change.

We need to start encouraging our children to pursue training in high-skilled trade jobs.

Sending them to college will likely leave them working in a dead end job.

The Marxist college professors be damned!

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

https://freedomwire.com/stop-sending-your-kids-to-college/


im the social justice waitress

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

https://freedomwire.com/stop-sending-your-kids-to-college/


im the social justice waitress

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

https://freedomwire.com/stop-sending-your-kids-to-college/


im the social justice waitress

nsaP posted:

It's for people who have a career path in mind where a degree is necessary and not for people who don't. It's not that wrong, I'm in retail and there are people with graduate degrees making less than me working alongside me. And trades need people and you make decent money. Especially with some degrees being worthless. I saw a job posting for an outdoor educator job this summer that required a bachelors and started at 10.something an hour. lmao.

Ed: still have a screenshot in my roll from lollin about it then

Mornacale posted:

I always want to ask "who is college for and not for?" when someone says it's not for everyone.

Mornacale posted:

I always want to ask "who is college for and not for?" when someone says it's not for everyone.

nsaP posted:

It's for people who have a career path in mind where a degree is necessary and not for people who don't. It's not that wrong, I'm in retail and there are people with graduate degrees making less than me working alongside me. And trades need people and you make decent money. Especially with some degrees being worthless. I saw a job posting for an outdoor educator job this summer that required a bachelors and started at 10.something an hour. lmao.

Ed: still have a screenshot in my roll from lollin about it then

darthbob88 posted:

People who want to work in a credential-requiring or creative field, like STEM, medicine, engineering, writing, music, should go to college because they/we would benefit significantly from it. People who work primarily in trades or semi-skilled labor would get less financial benefit from a degree. On the other hand, if a construction worker wants to learn about Baroque paintings because it would make him happy, who am I to say no?

ToxicSlurpee posted:

You can learn about Baroque paintings outside of college and in that case said construction worker could just sign up for the class without actually seeking a degree. The other really freaking weird thing is this attitude that you absolutely must only ever learn things in a classroom.

But it's like...libraries have existed almost as long as writing. Now we have the internet which gives you access to more information than you could ever possibly consume. There's just no need to step into a classroom for some things.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

But it's like...libraries have existed almost as long as writing. Now we have the internet which gives you access to more information than you could ever possibly consume. There's just no need to step into a classroom for some things.

luxury handset posted:

the internet is chock full of garbage information and information that would benefit from interpretation, the role of an educator is not simply to broadcast an educational signal to be received by some remote unit but rather to act as a guide and a gateway to what information is good to know, and how to consume it

even libraries aren't just piles of loose books, libraries happen to be filled with librarians who are trained to help people find books which are useful for whatever it is the patron wants to learn about

further, it helps to have a dedicated time set aside to do a thing with someone who knows what they're doing. anyone can just go into a field and move rocks around but gyms exist and so do personal trainers. anyone can put vegetables in a pot with some boiling water but recipes exist and so do cooking workshops

if anything the huge amount of information on the internet underscores the necessity of someone to help you sort through it all. anyone can learn history from watching youtube all day, except whoops that's a great way to become a holocaust denying nazi

Autistic Edgy Guy posted:

The best part of my uncle sending me that article is I'm the first person on that side of the family (and the other side actually) to earn a degree from a four year college, or anything beyond a CDL really. You can talk about how pointless college is and take whatever attitude you want, you might be right, but its different when no one in your family has been able to go.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Which is why it's important to learn to vet information.

CuddleCryptid posted:

Love how it's 37.5 hours, not 40, so no healthcare

luxury handset posted:

brb, teaching myself how to vet my own information and develop a critical sense of media literacy on my own while flying around like a galaxy brain witch by pulling on my own bootstraps

Ashcans posted:

In a good world, we would be teaching people things like critical thinking skills and how to engage with information and persuasive writing and basics of philosophy, etc. in high school, so that everyone would have the chance to benefit from those skills and would be better equipped to learn independently once they were done with basic schooling - they could go to college, sure, but would also have better skills for simply learning.

Instead we orient all the required education toward rote learning and test taking, so now colleges spend the first year doing remedial education and teaching people how to actually write instead.

PJOmega posted:

Worse, I'm friends with a lot of people who decided to go into teaching to "give back." Now if you try to teach critical thinking or analysis of modern events you'll have parents screaming at you and administration coming down on you because Johnny questioned Fox News or a pastor's anti-gay sermon. And this is in the suburbs of California. I can only imagine how bad it is in the Midwest or other places where conservativism is the norm.

luxury handset posted:

the internet is chock full of garbage information and information that would benefit from interpretation, the role of an educator is not simply to broadcast an educational signal to be received by some remote unit but rather to act as a guide and a gateway to what information is good to know, and how to consume it

even libraries aren't just piles of loose books, libraries happen to be filled with librarians who are trained to help people find books which are useful for whatever it is the patron wants to learn about

further, it helps to have a dedicated time set aside to do a thing with someone who knows what they're doing. anyone can just go into a field and move rocks around but gyms exist and so do personal trainers. anyone can put vegetables in a pot with some boiling water but recipes exist and so do cooking workshops

if anything the huge amount of information on the internet underscores the necessity of someone to help you sort through it all. anyone can learn history from watching youtube all day, except whoops that's a great way to become a holocaust denying nazi

PJOmega posted:

Worse, I'm friends with a lot of people who decided to go into teaching to "give back." Now if you try to teach critical thinking or analysis of modern events you'll have parents screaming at you and administration coming down on you...