Originally Posted by
Waitingformins
You don't have a field if you haven't had a job. It's just a desire. My high school buddy makes 60k a year plumbing houses. His wife makes mid 40s as an X-ray tech at a local hospital. Hardly min wage.
They watch Fox News
They vote republican
They are still in there 20's
They aren't on the governments teets. People's own ideas of themselves have prevented their actual earning potential.
Which is fine. And I have friends in their 20s/30s who hate FoxNews, vote Democrat, and make over 100k a year. What's your point? You can be successful, make a lot of money, and be liberal. By the way, if you've invested $40k in an education, it is your field. We complain that there aren't enough people in STEM yet you are so quick to cast off the education and tell them to get an unrelated job. One of my best friends went to Penn State and graduated with a degree in Meteorology. Guess what? When he graduated in 2009, the government wasn't hiring. The Weather Channel wasn't hiring. So, he should just throw away an incredibly intensive 4-5 years of math and science, go to some Community College and get an HVAC certificate and give up on his field of study? That's ludicrous. That's not how you encourage engineers and scientists. It's probably also the reason 40% of Republicans don't believe in science.
Only FoxNews and uneducated conservatives actually believe everyone who isn't like them is just sucking on the government teet and not contributing at all.