If You're not going to college for STEM, You should go to trade school

[WIA20XX]

If you're not going to College for STEM/Medicine (and the good stem, like Computer Science/Pre-Med, not Biology/Chemistry (low pay) or Zoology/Botany/Geology (no jobs)), you should go into the trades. (I'll including Accounting and Nursing as good majors)

Say no to

• Marketing - No
• Advertising - No.
• History - No
• European/Black/Latino/Arabic/Women's/LGBT/Religious Studies - No.
• Spanish/Chinese/Japanese/German/ASL - No
• English/Literature/Creative Writing - No.
• Political Science/Philosophy - No
• Psychology - No.
• Fine Arts - No.
• Architecture - No.
• Pre Law - No.
• Finance/Economics - No.
• Business Communication - No.

You get the drift.
Stomping on dreams.
I'm not adding any context.

If you want to, that's your business.

That's it.
That's the post.

Agree, or disagree.

 

[Pure Water]

My business degree has served me well this past decade.

 

[OsO]

Wholeheartedly disagree.

Although I do think high school students should explore their options more, and not just go to college as a default.

 

[The Pledge]

I hate seeing people go to college without substantial scholarships taking non STEM degrees. It’s absurd

But then again, most countries pay for college up to bachelor’s.

Of course we’d find a way to fukk it up here

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Wholeheartedly disagree.

Although I do think high school students should explore their options more, and not just go to college as a default.

If no one goes to trade school who's going to build our infrastructure? Who's going to repair our infrastructure? Can you do all that shyt yourself?

 

[Pure Water]

If no one goes to trade school who's going to build our infrastructure? Who's going to repair our infrastructure? Can you do all that shyt yourself?

The engineers that graduate from college that design and manage the projects and the “unskilled” labor that actually builds it.

 

[BmoreGorilla]

I’ve been saying for years that we need more people to learn trades. I wish I had followed in my pops footsteps and did it too but it was a different time and he really was pushing the college thing

I disagree that STEM is the only reason someone should go to college tho

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Stem ain’t the end all be all
That industry is going through an overhaul at the moment
And many will be assed out
The only thing I agree with is trade schools is where it’s at
Somehow, somewhere black folks let ourselves get punked out of this arena
Now we have to depend upon others to fix our shyt when they really don’t want too
Add to the fact, women have this absurd outlook on blue collared men while still needing assistance from blue collared men
shyt is stupid
I always say if I could turn back the hands of time a trade would’ve been a much better path for me
Yeah I graduated from a prestigious school but I’m just now using my degree to make my money
It’s good paper and the company I work for is straight but sometimes I see plumbers, electrician trucks, linesmen, whatever the fukk and think what could’ve been if those options were pushed harder back when I was in school
If you went to a trade school you were one of two things
Stupid
A delinquent
Nah i was stupid to go to college
Im grateful for the piece of paper and experiences but what i know now

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

The engineers that graduate from college that design and manage the projects and the “unskilled” labor that actually builds it.

You don't need any skill to build a bridge, install plumbing in a hospital, or wire up an airport?

 

[Mike809]

Even STEM doesn't guaranteed you a cushy life as it used to before.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Completely disagree with this assessment.

Liberal arts majors tend to be more innovative since they apply practical with the societal theoretical.

For example if you were selling a product to an emerging economic power like Ghana, one of the things you can focus on is the rising Nationalist and Pan Africanist ideology that has taken over the country (In the middle class and higher tiers). You can use it in marketing campaigns.

You have to understand the world OP. Liberal arts, Humanities, Etc is built on this

 

[Dwayne_Taylor]

I disagree but I understand why people think that.

STEM jobs aren't safe either.

 

[WIA20XX]

ompletely disagree with this assessment.

Liberal arts majors tend to be more innovative since they apply practical with the societal theoretical.

For example if you were selling a product to an emerging economic power like Ghana, one of the things you can focus on is the rising Nationalist and Pan Africanist ideology that has taken over the country (In the middle class and higher tiers). You can use it in marketing campaigns.

 

[Pressure]

College is just as much about building your network as it is about what you learn.

 

[TheGreatMTB]

People don't seem to understand that if everyone is in STEM, those STEM degrees will be just as useless as the other degrees they view as useless.