That's one of the things I've pointed out over time. It used to be you worked at McDonalds or the local grocery or whatever over the summer, did that for a few years, and once you went to go for a real job the work history showed you were an acceptable risk and they hired you.
Now, those big-boy jobs are gone or require massive amounts of education for an entry level position, and pay the same or less than fast food.
I can't count how many "BS (or even MS) and 5 years experience, 16-17/hr" jobs I've laughed at over the past few years.
You you did it during high school or going to college, once you graduated you left unless you were elderly.
Others worked and when they graduated they went to a factory, started making good money, started a family but that’s which all gone now.
Just from my older cousins and family you could go to a business without a degree and move up from the bottom. I have a healthcare ceo that started out in the cafeteria in HS, a SVP for one of the major carriers and started right after high school. They thought when they were bought out they’d be fired but got a promotion instead.
Most my family over 50 started at the bottom and either had no college or a few terms and have succeeded. Others went to the trades and/or started their own businesses.
Now it’s fours years for a piece of paper that gives you no real world experience.
I’d take someone from the bottom and can do the job over a college graduate any day.
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