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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Damn near nothing's impossible in law, but it's easier to get out of a murder rap than it is to discharge student loan debt.
And yeah, the bubble burst on law school about 6-7 years ago.
Honestly, I'm not sure what I'll tell my kid in 15 years. As you've noted, college degrees are expensive as hell for no good reason but if you want to get into the work force, you damn near have to have one. And as for find a steady route to a lucrative career....there just damn near isn't one anymore. Medicine? Yeah, engineering if you manage to get your foot in the door.
The future economy is just so far beyond my understanding that I wouldn't know where to start. It wouldn't surprise me at all if 20 years from now we're approaching an era where more people are freelancing than aren't. The idea of a stable, long-term employer seems to be less and less doable.
I'm just hopeful that the workforce finds a way to deal with changing technologies in the future and when it does, it stabilizes. Right now you're just in such a prisoner's dilemma with college and the employment market that I wouldn't know where to start.
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Agreed. It's a problem.
I just heard about a fascinating program that a friend's niece is going to do. It's a college that started out as a culinary school but has now expanded and is obviously much more "market-oriented" in terms of providing degrees with real life skills.
They are currently starting a new program for a degree in -- basically -- computer security. All about how to protect networks from hacks and all that stuff.
NOW THAT IS A ****ING CAREER PATH FOR THE NEW MILLENIA.
It's a small college in Rhode Island that I never heard of, but it was honestly the best plan for a career path I've heard in a long while from someone of HS or college age.