i agree, one of the reasons that the US has awful infrastructure quality is because there isn’t enough construction workers to repair it all because of three reasons, one being stereotypes about construction, everyone would rather go to college and the great recession got many construction workers fired who then had to go find other jobs. I’ve also heard some speculate that the next market disaster will be because of student loan debt, which all together atm is over two times the size of our military budget
i’m not saying college is useless, but rather you don’t necessarily need so much of it. There’s a balancing act that must be played here, yes we need educated people, but like that ought to be done in high school anyways. the part that colleges should be meant for is teaching for highly professional and high tech jobs like engineering and research on science and economy and stuff of the sort. But if everyone was an architect, there wouldn’t be any construction workers to make the architecture come to life
if other countries are to learn something from this issue, it’s not push college so much that it seems like a requirement
college isn’t where you’ll get all of your connections either, you can become an intern and get connections that way. There’s other ways to do it as well, just gotta put yourself out there. Of course take it with a pinch of salt, i’m speaking a tad bit blindly here, idk what it’s like down in the Philippines so getting connections might be a little harder, or maybe even a
bit easier than I speak
