Current Connection 1.2

In Mike Rowe’s article entitled “Mike Rowe Works,” posted on Profoundly Disconnected, he argues that being thirty grand in the hole starting your career is ridiculous.

 

According to “One. Trillion. Dollars.,” conducted by Mike Rowe, a well known TV celebrity, found that, we’ve confused the cost of an education with the cost of a diploma.

After going to school, a prison for high school teenagers, for so long and working so hard to finally get to your career, we should not have to be in the hole at all.

What is so wrong with this situation? Were required to make good grades, go to school for so long after going to school for twelve years to start out with, to get to our career, which helps us in no way because we are already so much in the hole working dose not make a difference because we have to pay off college debt.


Glenn Harlan Reyonlds, representative of USA TODAY, further notes, “And, in fact, for some people, it may be actively damaging.”

Debt is hard for anyone, debt is even worse to deal with for those who are fresh out of college, just starting their career, process of buying their first house (maybe?), and who is still trying to get used to the responsibilities of an adult in the real world.

Does this apply to everyone? Yes, believe it or not, a good chuck of the American population is in this exact situation.

Reyonlds further acknowledges that “even a mediocre college degree is a credential, but it’s an expensive one in time and money.”

For example, my mother is still paying on her college debts; her debts are not even half way paid.

My question would be…  Shouldn’t there be a different way to do this? To get a good education, end up with a good career, and with no lingering debt?