Subj : Re: Google 2025 strategy
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Accession
Date : Sat Jan 04 2025 17:38:48

Hey poindexter!

On Fri, Jan 03 2025 14:39:05 -0600, you wrote ..

>> Definitely. And it's only going to get worse as long as schools 
>> keep telling kids to go to college, where they'll choose some easy 
>> degree they'll never use in the real world.

> The bubble had burst before covid, I'd thought - that having a degree,
> any degree, meant the real possibility of a job out of college.

I think the bubble had burst long before that, to be honest. While I didn't join in the conversation in the other sub, I was in high school in the late 90s and got to take all the shop class electives and all that. When those shop classes started disappearing from schools is when they were touting going to college was the only way. Now that they've done that, the trades are in dire need of quality workers, and jobs where you need a college degree are overstuffed and dwindling. It's going to get even worse with AI, I have a feeling.

That said, luckily the school my kids go to still have vocational classes.

Regards,
Nick

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