Demographics & Economics

[fstarcstar]

I don't want to get into PT or OT. PT is beyond ridiculous right now in terms of acceptance into schools and the market has changed to roughly require a Doctorate to be competitive. No thanks.

I'm going into teaching/coaching, or I've also looked into Wellness/Fitness positions at local gyms or other companies. I have various options right now honestly. If I hate teaching and can't land a decent fitness job somewhere then I might go back for a masters to further my field.

[Winchester]

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

[spacemonkey]

One possible path. Truck driving school, pay that off in a year or less and still make pretty good money. Drive a couple of years stashing the coin. Now you have a good chunk of change to put into schooling for your more exotic careear of whateverologist.

[Ben Huh]

College should be something that is offered to those that qualify, but at the same time not something that is pushed on every student leaving high school. It is pretty apparent what classes college kids take when they still have no clue what career to pursue and that's a sociology major. Without going back to early levels of exclusivity, some exclusivity needs to be reintroduced to college as well. When at FSU, they offered remedial classes for gen ed courses to students that failed that portion of their entry exam. IMO if you fail a college entry exam, you are not accepted to go to college, simple as that. You shouldn't be learning 2 + 2 at the university level, in fact if that is your math level maybe you shouldn't have graduated high school. This is not entirely the student's faults as I feel that k-12 is too centrally focused on standardized testing and not teaching students to critically think. All in all a wallop of a mess and it puts a ton of young adults in heaping debt before they even have long-term jobs.

[spacemonkey]

College is not for everyone, and the blanket mindset policy of "If you learn, you will earn" is just not accurate.

[Kane]

[Ben Huh]

[spacemonkey]