Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Mike Rowe's has been doing the T.V. show Dirty Jobs for awhile, we use to watch it every Friday in business class I loved that show, it was very interesting. In this video about the high cost of college, he pulls up some very interesting points regarding the workforce and student loans in college. The first point I wanna talk to you about is he stated that, "he got nothing against college" but believes it's a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability. Why would you want to go to college when you can go straight towards working and making $10-$100 an hour? The jobs without college are paying really good and it’s really good opportunities. A good work ethic is that you got to love what you're doing so you can be more involved, that's why it’s good to go to college so you can have more options and be more open about the things you wanna do in life. He’s right at most points, we are wasting money on careers that don’t even exist. His show dirty jobs was too show young viewers to look at their options in a different standpoint, to follow their passion. On his show dirty jobs he met many people, he was always told by his family to follow his passion but when he was working with several of those people he asked them “what did you do before this?” they would say something opposite of what they are doing now, they wanted to own their own business instead of being a counselor anymore. He talks about his work ethic scholarship, it’s a scholarship to encourage the behavior that the micro wants to at least talk about here’s two things: the willingness to learn a useful skill, and the willingness to work your but off. Like he mention our parents want us to succeed and do better than they did. When they went to college the price was lower than what we are spending now. It has increased tremendously over the years. Many students are trillions of dollars in debt from student loans. I disagree where he says, "If I depended on a skill workforce then I would not depend on a public education.” We can’t just go straight to the workforce, college is supposed to help you learn the things you would need in life, I understand that it is very expensive but when you think about it will be worth it in the end, college is supposed to be this whole new adventure in your life.
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I agree with Rowe on how it is a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction in the same direction regardless of interest or ability.
ReplyDeletei agree college helps you with life lessons
ReplyDeletei agree college helps you with life lessons
ReplyDeleteI agree that parents push their kids to go to college and they end up setting up their kid for failure.
ReplyDeleteI agree college helps you with a lot of things with life.
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