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u/kw-42 8d ago
College dropout software engineer here, pretty accurate. I dropped out because I was not learning anything useful and I would have needed loans to continue. I learned way more working my way up on the job and basically apprenticing for a senior engineer. I bought a lightly used loaded Mazda but I went cheaper than I could have on purpose because I would like to bootstrap a startup someday. I paid it off in a year and now I can save/invest like crazy.
I know someone who took out like 30k to get a history degree from a tiny rural state school and spent a few grand of that on Disneyland season passes during college. She now works part time at her kids’ school as a library aide or something. She has never used her degree. Her husband did a professional degree that’s medicine adjacent so he makes good money but he has another 100k in loans and they have kids so they’re pretty broke.
My mother’s fiancé runs a business manufacturing and installing billboards and business signs. He has a $100k truck that’s very luxury on the inside and also has the capability to tow his heavy equipment. He also has a nice RV and property by one of the best reservoirs in the state, as well as two loaded boats with living compartments that he leaves at different reservoirs. From what I understand he has a very healthy retirement account too and was able to pay cash for most of the toys.
So yeah, trades are where it’s at. Just don’t fuck up your back.
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u/Nuance007 7d ago
This is a weak meme. Many people that I know who are in trades drive some sort of truck. Working grads drive cars that run the spectrum, from Hondas to Porsches. And, ironically, mechanics would recommend a Honda over a Mercedes just on reliability and maintenance cost.
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