Guiding them straight to failure #fyp #foryourpage #lol #humor #comedy #trades #college

So my eldest daughter just graduated high school, and do you know what the guidance counselor never said not one time? Hey, maybe look into the trades. Nobody at that school ever said, hey, you could learn to fix an air conditioner and be making six figures before your friends finish intro to What the Fuck Am I Doing With My Life 101. Why do we still treat the trades like it's what you do if you fail the SATs? Like knowing how to install a furnace is somehow less valuable than writing a 12-page paper on the symbolism in The Great Gatsby. And my daughter, she was spiraling because everyone around her was committing to these D1 schools like they were picking Hogwarts houses with majors like theater and sports business, whatever the fuck that is. And she said, mom, what if I don't know yet? And I said, congratulations, you're smarter than 90% of the people you graduated with. Most of these kids are going to change majors four times and graduate with a diploma and like vague enthusiasm, with a minor in Keystone Ice and seasonal depression. But they just push college like it's a golden ticket, like we don't already have 22-year-olds out here with 80K in debt and a full-blown identity crisis because they realize no one's hiring for creative vision coordinator. College isn't bad, but acting like it's the only option is how you end up with a whole generation of people who can recite the Pythagorean theorem but can't change attire. Just once, I want one of these counselors to get up and say, hey, if you like working with your hands and don't want to eat ramen for six years, be a plumber. Because when the last plumber retires, you better hope your kid knows how to snake a drain or they're going to be ankle deep in reality real fucking fast.