You can go to college and still end up in dead-end jobs to make ends meet. One of the cashiers at my local McDonalds moonlights there when she's not nursing at the local clinic.

The problem is that attaining the american dream is impossible if you weren't born into it.

^Ah crap, I live right above your state.

YES!

Should've done an apprenticeship instead of a degree then. Where I live, tradespeople *deserve* more than uni graduates. We're the ones who fix your toilet when it's blocked, restore your cable TV and Internet service when it's down, restore power after a storm. I just don't understand societies that undervalue tradespeople.

#83 are you a Queenslander?

#101 What the **** is wrong with you? Tradespeople are very important, yes, but there's a reason people get degrees - in order to do things that can't be taught easily, such as doctors, architects, lawyers - and to ensure that knowledge itself gets passed down through generations, creating experts in every field. Unfortunately for some of us, there is more supply than demand, and we have to work harder to reach the top of our field. Just because jobs in trade are far more in demand, it absolutely does not mean you should be paid more. Besides... we put more effort into it.

You'll never become financially successful, which seems to be your goal, if you continue to have such a negative attitude. However, if your main concern relates to having a career that coincides with one's best abilities, then go and become a vocabulary tutor. Please don't become a grammar teacher, though, because you have terrible grammar. It's a good thing that gardeners don't need good grammar, because otherwise people would watch you speak and think that it's so unfair that you are a gardener despite your poor grammar skills!

what are you even taking about

It's true, in some areas of Australia a university degree is the most useless asset you can have because there's no where to use it! For example, I am from Sydney and doing psychology which is fine since every second person in Sydney is seeing a shrink. However, in laid back town like port maquarie, I would struggle to find work and the best path for success would be to become a tradie or move to a big city (which very few people do in australia; I know it's very common to change states in America for college). However, it is true that having a uni degree will help out a lot in the long term. op, maybe you're making more money than your peers right now but in 20 or 30 years, as a tradie you'll still be doing exactly the same stuff and they could verywell be somewhere else, moving up in the world.

I'm from Chile. Full of psychologists who can't find a job because there are way too many of them. I'm a “tradie”, too, or at least a close equivalent. Learned computer programming mostly through practice and experience, and seen many better-educated engineers come and go at my workplace, while I keep thriving. I think that formal education looks good on a resume and can actually be useful as a necessary introduction to, well, the basics of the discipline you're studying. But yeah, a degree is useless without actual practice and experience. How to get experience without an actual job? Well, depends on the career but my personal projects have worked wonders for me. Also, don't miss out on job opportunities that you can find right there at your university. And consider getting an apprenticeship.

Go home.