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   @user-rw2ii3rb5f

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   I’m a Registered Nurse and far from a 6 figure salary. We need higher salaries too, come on, we take care of people. The hospital I’m employed at paid for my BSN and now for my MSN. I wouldn’t have done this if it weren’t for the hospital paying my tuition. I love my profession, but need more money honey.

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   @mikeh.753

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   A friend once joked that a college degree and 3 dollars will get you a cup of coffee and not much more.

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   @user-me2rb6ev1o

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   Wow higher tuition for zoom. Crazy

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   @joedavis-rk5kg

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   As a 52 year old trades worker, I would rather have a fake degree than be crushing my body in this crap work every day to make enough to die early or spend all my savings to live another year.

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   @maryshaffer5675

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   But once they get you its hard to get out. They encourage more and more higher education.

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   @Ya_flyness

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   Dude was was on fire at the end . They stopped his flow smh

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   @kevinkeating4984

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   Mike Rowe is a fossil fuel industry shill. He should go huff SUV exhaust.

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   @keithcourson7317

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   I'm encouraging all my children (six of them) to go to trade schools to learn actual, real-world, problem-solving skills. Everything from Welding, to Nursing, to Robotics, to various computer certifications. With these types of certs/degrees, my children will learn to be "problem solvers," and actually contribute something to their little corner of the world. Kids who get 4-year bull hocky degrees in various political ideologies (scared to actually say which ones for fear that YouTube will censor this comment) are useless in the long term – instead of being able to solve problems, they are only capable of causing problems. You all know exactly what I mean when I say, "causing problems." Hats off to Mike Rowe who (as a well-known public figure) still has half a brain.

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   @christopherhennessey8991

   February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

   I’m a retired RN, who graduated from the three-year hospital diploma program.
   Many times I oriented four year baccalaureate nursing students. Their programs wouldn’t give them enough clinical hours and I found they had difficulty with patient care .

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    @libertytree3209

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    I love the way the media uses "college educated" and "non-college educated". That alone shows their bias. Why not divide into "small business owners" and "non-small business owners"?

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    @libertytree3209

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    They started giving out these degrees to everyone – accepting them into programs – simply because they got a "B" avg, or they were the right color. It was hard to get accepted when I was applying back in the 70s. And then they stopped making them work to get As because that was racist. People started graduating but their degrees meant nothing, because you didn't really have to work like you did 50 years ago to get them. Back in the 70's I never took a class to get a high SAT – I got accepted because I excelled on good grades and hard work, passed tests. Never took a loan – worked my way through. The AA people were just starting to get in and boy, could you tell the difference. The thought was, why are they here? They can't compete. They failed out right away. There were tons of Ds and Cs given out in my classes. To make the Deans list was a big thing.

    Now, they just lower the tests, because the govt doesn't dare let them fail. So now the entire system is failing because everyone knowsthe degree is worthless. Unfortunately, it is spreading through the system so badly that now our systems, such are our planes are failing. DEI is killing us.

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    @Amethyst454

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    I was a tutor in a college for years. People who shouldn't be there are allowed to be. Sorry, it's true. Not everyone is meant for college and grad school. And that's okay!!

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    @NickDrinksWater

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    I've heard and personally known so many people who went to college, and they ended up either working in fast food to pay off the loans because they couldn't find any other jobs, or they were homeless. Most people dont need higher than a high school education, I know someone who only has high school but he makes more than enough to own his own house with the current career he has

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    @user-rs1ui4sv2w

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    Even an M B A can do it 😂😂😂

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    @stlegion-px1wo

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    The problem is that college is too expensive for a lack of competence

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    @timmitchell3870

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    Is the fact that most college degrees don't translate into the sort of skills anyone can use really that much of a revelation – or is it just that it's taken this long for everyone to finally admit it? I graduated with a liberal arts degree in Psychology in 1990. It took me about four job interviews to realize how screwed I was.

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    @roflincopter

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    The majority of trades jobs are hard work and it's a young man's jobs. Also they are not handing out six figure trade job salaries like candy. I'm not entirely sure where the idea of trades being a get rich quick scheme came from. Even considering debt, four year degrees from accredited institutions are extremely valuable and it's grift to say otherwise. People who own them not only tend to make more, they also tend to be healthier and be happier. Read literally any study on this topic. Computer scientists and engineers aren't getting back problems working slouched under a car hood or working on pipes all day. There's a place for trades but they should only be for people who cannot obtain degrees.

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    @camaro6813

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    Thank you Mike Rowe! We have discussed this topic with our currently 16yo son, (sophomore in HS) and he has chosen to study welding!! I am so proud of him. He will have a great future with not much debt!! Love Mike Rowe for sounding the alarm and speaking up!

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    @davejensen8882

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    College today is for dopers, drunkards, bums and loose women.

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    @hundenstihl

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    It’s all Joe Biden’s fault.

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    @mike111202

    February 11, 2024 at 6:29 am

    its about money. thats it. thats all. fewer and fewer people can afford it, and some of the ones who can afford it are smart enough to realize that they wont even make that much anyways…if they can even get a job.

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