Just venting about the loneliness of my particular situation.

My parents had it quite different from what the job market looks like today. Their college was affordable, and they graduated into a stable job market. They worked in careers related to their humanities degrees their entire lives—honestly, humanities degrees worked out in the 70s! Their degrees actually mattered in their work. If you’re under 40 now, this is shocking, and today, its unheard of. I, instead went to community college to save money and not take a incredible amount of debt I never even looked at finding out the real number of, even though I was a 3.7 GPA student, and got 1300 on my SATs (as like 2000 if you understand the 2400 range better). Being perfectly honest, its all jealously cause my core belief is that college is too expensive, but I got angry hearing when somebody's student loans were forgiven by Biden-especially as I feel less students are as mature today as I was and see humanities degrees are useless. I paid my way through, and its not 100K high interest debt, but it certainly meant I never got a car I really wanted until I was in my 30s. I was aware even at 18 that a humanities degree was fun, but not realistically going to get me a job so I went STEM. I think today, no one would fault my decisions.

But then STEM became the first job that automation and overseas better government policy for STEM jobs took most entry level work from in the 00s. I left after it took 3 yrs to get my A.S, I did tons of extra-curriculars, and was burnt out from all part-time retail jobs becoming "toxic 20-something boss" after social media and camera phones and rising stupidity and vanity in everything everyone thought and did. But back to my parents. I knew A.S. in Math meant nothing. Got myself a forklift driving certification, thinking it was my lifeline to be a college quitter and still maybe find work, for 21 yr old in a rural area and the closest city being a terrible job market too.

Back then, my parents and everyone over 40 were but also never suggested what I should've been doing. Applying to the military. Joining an apprenticeship. My parents didn't even know I got the forklift license to say again, how unaware they were of anything I was doing at the time.

That said, I often say I don’t get along with my parents. This is the main reason! And as we're seeing in the world today, the boomer's ability to bury their head in the sand is very real. My parents are just figuring out that I figured out universities don't care what degree I choose, as long as the tuition check clears. Their trust in universities is mind-boggling. I'm unemployed again. Anyone that tells me to go back to school if I'm unhappy with my old career just sounds like my tone-deaf parents.

As much as I also blame wall street and CEOs for wanting to increase profits and will fire anybody these days, making for the worst job market that is the new normal-I feel like education is a huge problem. The biggest point I made here you may have glossed over, but colleges do not allocate their profits to help build a better future, and help the students. Fuck this country. There is a reason that the average college student doesn't take 4 yrs, but 5.5 yrs to complete their degree and I think we should never be blaming the students.