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Y'all ever wish you would have gone to college instead?
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<blockquote data-quote="Whither" data-source="post: 4762041" data-attributes="member: 76643"><p>Same, academic scholarship. Got a bachelor's in philosophy 15 years ago but had little interest spending several more years in school to become a professor, lawyer, or the like. Several drivers at my building also have 4 year degrees.</p><p></p><p>I tend to think the grass is always greener. My wife is a union electrician, and plenty of her coworkers can't believe someone with a college degree would 'settle' for construction work. I've spent most of my life working crap jobs that I loathed for crap money and no benefits. I'm not here to sing the praises of UPS, but, in addition to the money and bennies, I will say the job doesn't leave me stressed out. Sure there are rough days, but I'm usually too tired to care once I get home, and when I tell work stories to others it's as if the events happened to another person. </p><p></p><p>If the job market was bad when I graduated, it's only gotten worse since 2008 and the ongoing Covid fiasco. Along with unions, decent-paying jobs are going extinct. 'The market' has no use for either.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whither, post: 4762041, member: 76643"] Same, academic scholarship. Got a bachelor's in philosophy 15 years ago but had little interest spending several more years in school to become a professor, lawyer, or the like. Several drivers at my building also have 4 year degrees. I tend to think the grass is always greener. My wife is a union electrician, and plenty of her coworkers can't believe someone with a college degree would 'settle' for construction work. I've spent most of my life working crap jobs that I loathed for crap money and no benefits. I'm not here to sing the praises of UPS, but, in addition to the money and bennies, I will say the job doesn't leave me stressed out. Sure there are rough days, but I'm usually too tired to care once I get home, and when I tell work stories to others it's as if the events happened to another person. If the job market was bad when I graduated, it's only gotten worse since 2008 and the ongoing Covid fiasco. Along with unions, decent-paying jobs are going extinct. 'The market' has no use for either. [/QUOTE]
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