| Richard 2005-01-19, 3:55 am |
| >> Or are you expecting that a 17 year old can find a 'real job' ?
> I did, at 19, ...
> Many programmers are aged late teens and early 20s,
> The best programmer
So what about the other 3 million 17 year olds just out of school ?
Will they all find 'real jobs' too ?
Your claim was that going to College 'costs' $150-200K because they
could earn that starting at 17 or 18 over a 4 year period.
A _few_ might actually be able to do that. The others have:
RW>> given up hope of finding a real job, now working in fast food or
RW>> retail.
For the majority, given a _realistic_ expectation of their _actual_
earning potential and ability to get a 'real job', they would be better
off going to college. More of them will get a real job and will earn
significantly more than those that do not and wind up in 'fast food'.
Once again you take a limited sample and generalise those to the whole
world. To the majority 'the greatest cost of _NOT_ going to college'
is a _lifetime_ of lost wages -- from being lower than a graduate
would be getting.
Of course some small number will be better off not going to college,
and some will be worse off for having gone.
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