Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "You Can't Be Whatever You Want To Be" video.

  1.  @niichigary8609  I had a boss who literally put his two brothers through their first 4 years of college. Pre-med. Their medical and dental school was on them. His mother used to talk about my son the doctor or dentist. When she was asked about her other son she replied "oh, he just works in a factory".
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  2. Does anyone really write feminist reviews? Anyone who really does something useful?
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  3. "The world needs ditch diggers too" Ted Knight, Caddyshack
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  4.  @Canleaf08  Older people being spiteful towards millennials? It cuts both ways. Millenials (plus Gen X'ers etc) basically cheering because old people were dying of COVID-19? Yah I know it's not all young people doing it but the squeaky wheel is the one that gets noticed. The need for people who write code etc. What percentage of the workforce does that take? And how long before some bright group of people basically develop an AI to do it for you. You just tell it what you want. If they haven't already. We all can't be artists, or writers, or nurses, or doctors, or engineers, or any of a number of fields. When I was 10 years old just about every other 10 year old* wanted to either a baseball player** or an astronaut. Well not everybodies got the Right Stuff. In fact almost nobody does. A good example of somebody who does is Buzz Aldrin. Fighter pilot, PhD from MIT, astronaut, and a really good right uppercut. When I was looking to go to university I either wanted to be an architect or an engineer in some field. Preferably aeronautics. I envisioned myself the next Frank Lloyd Wright or Kelly Johnson then reality came crashing in. Wanting to save money for school (college was actually inexpensive then***) I began working g full time. While doing this I literally fell into a skilled trade where i was reasonably happy what was doing. It served me well, I was able to retire early. Plus it put me in demand for other job opportunities if I choose to pursue them. Not everyone can go to college. Or should they. Nor should they have their life doomed to barely scraping by as long as they are willing to apply them selves. *In the US at least **Subsitute what ever sport fits ***This is where the Boomers really screwed their kids. With the Boomers the number of people who went to college exploded for a variety of reasons. The education industry shoving it down their throats. And yes it is an industry. In the US young men who needed that draft deferment. And genuine opportunity in the economy. The result was a glut of people who had degrees in some fields. And of course some of the Boomers went into education. And then administration. And then to increase the number of students even more these administrators and educators developed new fields in which to earn a degree. All well and good. But these new disciplines needed administrative oversight. And they needed oversight. Colleges and universities began to become bloated on the administrative side. Just how many people employed at colleges and universities actually teach? And how many are literally doing nothing more than shuffling papers. Or electrons in actuality. This bloated overhead is one of the primary causes of the increase in the cost of college in comparision to the rate of inflation. The lowering of state support through tax dollars didnt help I will admit. But with the ever increasing cost of education in general it would eventually become impossible to support anyways
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