I’m grateful for my college degree because it was required for my career path, and it helped me leverage into a new and even better career path. But I went to an affordable public university in a LCOL place, chose a practical major in a field that is in very high demand, and kept a full course load so that I could graduate on time.

I have zero empathy for people who take out exorbitant amounts of money that they don’t have to attend expensive private universities in NYC or other HCOL places, major in some dumb shit like Gender Studies or fields with niche career paths, and then cry that they can’t find a job or afford their student loan payments. But instead of working a job to put themselves through school, they spent their free time marching for Palestine or whatever Leftist cause was trendy at the time.

But college definitely isn’t for everyone. Trades are a great choice for a lot of people