Comments by "dbergerac" (@dbergerac9632) on "The Onion" channel.

  1. Interviews age you a LOT.
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  2. Us Boomers can remember losing out on jobs to people because they had those exact "skills".. but I am a wizard with a sliderule, and typewriter.
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  3.  @sipeolusoga5817  College has become a bad joke in the USA with the majority of students getting degrees that do not lead to careers. This parody is mocking the otherwise bright students who wasted four years and tens of thousands of dollars without even looking at future job prospects.
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  4. Parking lot attendants are underappreciated.
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  5. Perhaps he studied classical stoicism, it'll come in handy.
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  6. Is this Hunter Biden?
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  7.  @J040PL7  Don't we wish.
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  8.  @ridhazangar3098  I agree, individual students SHOULD research their degree programs before contracting. They are responsible for their choices, for good or for ill. I would not use the term "scam" I would say "poorly advised choice", choices made available by an unethical ( although legal ) industry. Scams are illegal, generally.
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  9. You can wrangle a job in HR with that.
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  10.  @neontime8507  You will not only be able to fully rationalize your fate, but you will also be able to articulate it to your therapist clearly.
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  11. I'd have killed to get $8.00/hr in the 70's
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  12. He went back for the PhD and now teaches Communications at CC to suckers.
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  13. Everyone knows that if you're going for your dream degree, you need to minor in something else as a safety, like Puppetry Arts.
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  14.  @spooky2526  OK then. You don't like Colleges, You don't know about schools that teach you valuable job skills, you don't like military schools that teach you valuable skills that can keep you in-the-rear-with-the-gear, and you don't like apprenticeships. OK then, I concede. Bread lines paid for by those who learned to work and do so are certainly the way to go. What exactly ARE your plans for your children?
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  15. They did try to warn you.
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  16. It wasn't getting his dream job so they are going to cosign for his Master's in Film Studies.
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  17. It is a satire site.
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  18. Isn't that like doubling down at a casino?
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  19. This looks a LOT like the voting machine I used in 1972. Levers!
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  20.  @robertconrad743  You should have taken the courses in Grant Writing and gotten some of that easy government money.
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  21. No. Most boomers who have degrees are now retired or retiring from actual careers. If only there were people with the skills to take our place.
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  22. Philosophy. No one ever ran and ad seeking a philosopher.
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  23. Maybe he read "Walden" and actually understood. He has a safe place to live, adequate food, wifi. I guess he just doesn't suffer from any "first world" problems. He can see that his greedy, shallow sister is miserable and he chose a wiser path.
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  24. At least you can fully appreciate the bigger picture of your fate.
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  25. It does indeed provide the skills to impart knowledge that they do not possess.
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  26. They stole the plot from Sanford and Son.
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  27.  @seaque.  Onion is a parody of news for comedy. Like a SNL skit.
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  28.  @Mario-gq2xb  Well, there were working lunches and entertaining clients.
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  29.  @FireIsTheCIeanser  And most wait tables.
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  30. If only there were someplace where people could go to learn valuable skills that they could use to earn high incomes and then pamper and spoil their own offspring. Oh wait!
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  31.  @pozloadescobar  My fiance' makes a living teaching "developmental" courses to college students who wasted HS and are only there to get the federal grant money. ( your tax dollars at work ) I am not seeing a lot of barriers there and can imagine how it could go for someone who could actually spell SAT. I suppose if one did NOT have a rich dad, and also does not choose to learn valuable skills that future prospects could be bleak. College is not the best route for everyone. My son makes well into six figures after apprenticing for a physically demanding technical job in the power industry. He got that door opened via the Job Corps. And I agree that two generations of students have been ripped off. Once the feds made loads of cash available to colleges, inflation kicked in. Never let the government "help".
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  32.  @spooky2526  If you are surprised that I agree with you, then you did not really read my posts.
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  33.  @spooky2526 "If only there were someplace where people could go to learn valuable skills that they could use to earn high incomes..." Trade schools ( it worked for many in my family ) The Military has some excellent schools for it's members. Not only free, but you get paid to be there. ( Effort IS required though, unlike public school ). Apprenticeships are still around. I'm uncertain of where we might disagree?
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  34.  @spooky2526  You cannot imagine how messed up our "education" is. As I said, my fiance' teaches fractions and decimals ( really ) to college students, who will receive no graduation credits for that ( thankfully ) but the taxpayers fund it. She worked for years to pay off her 60k student debt and she did. I attended a state four year college in 1972. Tuition was $187.50 per YEAR for a full course load. I earned two semesters of credits through challenge exams. (about 50.00). I had a part time campus job that paid me $1.60/hr which was sufficient as I lived at home. And then, the government stepped in to "help". Grants began to flow and tuition rose accordingly. When the boomers had passed through the system there were empty seats to fill, so the government guaranteed loans making college available ( if not always affordable ) competition between colleges rose and to fill those seats, colleges began offering degrees in anything remotely "interesting" whether it led to a career or not. Seats filled and tuition rose higher. Today, you can sleep through secondary school, receive a worthless diploma and enter a college completely unprepared and unqualified and they do not mind. There is an entire department set up to teach you what you ignored in the 13 years of FREE schooling. Students were a LOT better off before we received all the "help". My state offers free two years of college if you have a B average in secondary school. So the schools gave the C- students B averages. And then the remedial courses became ones first year ( or more ) of "college". I have worked alongside college graduates who cannot write a business letter. I've worked in laboratories with college students who could not tell the difference between 2% and .02%. What happened to education in America is nothing short of sabotage.
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  35. Germany and Finland do NOT provide university for students who are barely literate. They actually have to qualify to be there. We also agree that where the US dropped the ball is in our first 12 years of public education. If we were not using our public schools as a baby sitting service, we would HAVE qualified college students. And I still defend my position that if a person wastes 12 years of free education and learns nothing, only a fool would throw MORE money into "just one more try". Sadly, the fault lies in our schools that make learning available, but do not require students to learn. I wish you well, the US is pretty much screwed. My son is a technician in a local factory. He has to work a lot of overtime because they are about 40% understaffed. Although the pay is far above average for the region, they cannot find enough workers who can put the correct size bolt in the hole.
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  36. If you want to make less than a barista, get an entry level job in journalism.
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  37. Corey went back for the M.A. program.
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  38. ROTFL!
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  39. Weed
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  40. "Women" You don't want HR up your adze.
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  41. Sophomore year....best 7 years of my life.
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  42. Evidently they did not communicate the program very well.
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  43. Doesn't anyone get a Minor with their degree anymore. I got a BS in Liberal Arts, but the Accounting/Finance minor fed my family. I was also accepted into grad school for Epidemiology.
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  44. He should have gone to Evergreen State College.
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  45.  doomscyte  There's no denying that.
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  46. Don't forget a potential military career.
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  47. That's fair. Still, choose that major wisely.
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  48. Summer internships in the field are important.
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  49.  @TheButterMinecart1  I'm so old that I can remember poets actually selling books. Study anything that you want, but unless you have a trust fund you are a product in the marketplace. Sadly, Google has largely replaced society's perceived need for individuals with esoteric knowledge. Spelling, grammar, and even cursive writing are collapsing. "Learn to code" they say. I did, and everything I had learned became obsolete overnight. I liked the arts and humanities and was happy to receive a degree in Liberal Arts, but it was a minor in finance that fed my family. It is possible to have both, but at a price.
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