People have gone to college and still can't even afford a single home, much less, a suitable apartment spot.
We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.
Submitted 6 hours ago by theoneandonlyeggboi@lemmings.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Harkronis@kbin.melroy.org 18 minutes ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 27 minutes ago
if you go to college you can’t even afford to pay for it by 30.
Monster96@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
Going to college doesnt allow you to buy a house at 30 either lol
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I majored in buying houses
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
NOT IF YOU DRINK THE STARBUCKS EVERY DAY.
fluckx@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I CAN LIVE WITH THAT AS LONG AS YOU I CAN STILL HAVE MY AVOCADO TOAST.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Rather, it puts you in debt. And now you have even less power. We should normalize everyone being able to live and not force college on everyone. But also make it free/super cheap so people can attend if they want without having to suffer financially
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 hours ago
I went to college, I’m way over 30. Buying a house is a vague dream.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
You don’t need to. All you really need is to go for a walk in your desired neighbourhood, find a house you love, knock on the door and introduce yourself. Ask any questions you have about the property, then kill the occupants, flay them and wear their skin as your own as you lead your new charmed life, for as long as you can.
tensorpudding@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Since you said “house” I’m going to push back a little bit. Housing is unaffordable and we should address it but single-family homes are not a feasible solution for a lot of places and situations.
HubertManne@piefed.social 51 minutes ago
This is a needless concern. You don’t have to worry about affording a house by 30 by going to college.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 4 hours ago
The only people I know with houses are the ones with rich parents and it doesn’t matter if they went to college or not.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Where they give you houses for going to college? Did I missed a promotion?
discocactus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Should go to trade school instead.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Exactly! Learn a good profession like electrician, woodworker, furniture making… any kind of profession where you can create beautiful products and services customers love.
Swaus01@piefed.social 5 hours ago
When we’re at school the teachers never actually take the time to talk about:
- what non-university educated careers
- what they involve
- how to pursue trades based jobsAnd it’s weird, because I’m sure everyone would love to at least dabble in woodworking or some other form of craftsmanship. But they don’t get the chance to.
The school-university pipeline works for a lot of people, but I don’t think uni straight after school is the ideal situation for most people. It means we lose sight of what education is actually for, outside of progression to further qualifications
School_Lunch@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The trade-off is that finding a job that doesn’t require the large debt that comes with college means the job might not pay enough for a house, or if it does, its the kind of job where you don’t get much time to actually spend at said house.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
They didn’t say “find a job”, they said “learn a profession” it’s a different thing. It’s learning a skilled trade. You have to learn a trade first, then you can find the high paying job. Your early 20s will be relatively low paying, but by the time you are 30, you should have multiple years of being a journeyman under your belt and should be making good money.
WALLACE@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
A good tradesman can make a very good living. I know a builder who paid his mortgage off in his early 30’s.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
You don’t. None of my highly educated friends own a house while everyone working in trades do.
oyo@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Everyone should have to go to college. We have an epidemic of stupidity.
HubertManne@piefed.social 48 minutes ago
it would be better to add elementary logic as a requirement to graduate high school. I would also add a class where you have to read and present a paper in stem and political science and philosophy.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Going to college can inform, but doesn’t cure innate stupidity. And if the student is particularly willful, they can hold onto their ignorance as well.
Case in point: Trump.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
You are right, all the comments replying to you are making vacuous individualist arguments like ‘it won’t work every single time’, when what’s important is that ‘on average, it will raise intelligence and the ability to critically evaluate situations’.
The internet loves to just regurgitate what they heard before and only deal in absolutes, so right now it’s that they would have made more money in the trades, so suddenly college and higher education is meaningless and provided no value to them. It’s honestly embarassing how much they’re just buying into right wing propaganda.
snooggums@piefed.world 4 hours ago
Everyone should have access to a free college education, but not everyone benefits from it and it certainly does not guarantee intelligence.
rabber@lemmy.ca 6 minutes ago
Iddidn’t go to college and I bought a house at 30