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I think this part is what everyone takes exception to. Especially in gen x, no one warned us that “Maybe college isn’t for you because you won’t want a payment that takes 15% of all of your income each month when you’re also trying to scrounge up enough money to buy a house”.
The message was more “you’re going to be begging groceries at Piggly Wiggly like your cousin Bert if you don’t get a degree in something”
Bert now has more in his 401k than I’m even close to. Feels like we’ve been bamboozled.
Not just gen x. Millennial here, and I remember college being pushed on us as an idea in middle school up to high school graduation as a "make or break" thing for our futures. You either go to college or you end up a deadbeat.
Bamboozled we definitely were.
Top end of Gen Z here (graduated HS in 2017) and it’s the same here. College was the only option presented. Everything else was an alternative to college, not a standalone thing and was also still extremely expensive.
I suppose then it's a lesson on whom you should trust when you're planning on making life-altering financial decisions. presumably the lesson was learned?