Buyer's Remorse: High Debt and Low Pay Leave Some College Grads Rueful
I’ve told this story before on here, but most of my social circle went to college. In general, most of those I’ve stayed in touch with are doing alright for themselves.<p>But we graduated college between 2007-2010, so it was a rough economy to be looking for a first job.<p>One friend skipped college and joined the local electrician union. He did his 10 years to get his lifetime card, and started his own business a few years ago.<p>Not only is he already making a ton of money, he has zero debt, and more importantly charges close to whatever he wants an hour because of how in demand he is.<p>He jokes that he’s going to be the only electrician in the city in the next ten years because all the old guard is retiring, and way fewer millennials went into trades.<p>College would have been a bad idea for him and he knew it.