>>13010840>If you went to college to become a chefPretty sure he didn't go to college to become a chef, more he had to take whatever he could get since he couldn't get a job elsewhere. The situation is actually very common right now, with a huge number of recent college graduates under the age of 25 being unable to find even minimum wage jobs easily, let alone jobs in their field of study from school. College is a joke in America right now unless you're going for a STEM degree, but the problem lies in social pressures pushing older teens into going to college NO MATTER WHAT.
Parents are from a boomer generation where the prerequisites for having a job were being over the age of 16 and breathing. They've grown up to either experience themselves how much easier their college educated peers had life, or have experienced themselves how much easier it was. As such, they obviously want their children to experience that, so tend to put a strong emphasis on college not being negotiable. Such strong pressures from parents, peers, and teachers, makes it hard for an individual to back out of it. You end up in a state where a flood of students are entering college unprepared, unwilling, and confused. They most likely didn't know what they wanted to do (lots of people don't by the time they're 18, and it's fairly unreasonable to expect a young adult at that age to have their career path for their ENTIRE LIFE figured out by that point). They're pushed in with the encouragement that college will "pay itself off" in the long run, and that it "doesn't matter what degree you get, so long as you get one"
It's a deadly trap. Too many people are falling for it, and we're coming to a time where too many students are coming out with nothing but 30 years worth of debt and the inability to comfortably live as an individual; something that's quite the opposite of what college was supposed to achieve for them.
