These days, college wins every time.

Just ask your friendly neighborhood unemployed overeducated White Kid:

Let’s use my nephew as an example. He doesn’t want to be an example but there it is.

He’s your prototypical hugged & coddled GOWP kid, thrust into a national situation he is purposely ill-prepared to understand.

His parents meant well but they too were duped by their parents. (Sounds like fodder for another post, eh?)

Living in essentially Paradise (Coronado, CA), he was encouraged to envision that the world revolved around himself, from T-ball to soccer practice to other priority events.

His mother forbid him from enlisting in the military — though she herself benefited from a military family that handed over a $1 million dollar + home from her Marine father —

And, through college, he knew he had what I call a “fallback position.”

That is this: no matter what occurs, he can always “come home.”

To which I say: bullshit. If he falls he fails. No matter his choices, no matter his decisions.

My middle brother has resolved to support him.

I had no fallback position. I’ll wager my other two brothers were offered no fallback position either.

I made my choice and, throughout my entire life, I’ve had to live with it. There was no going back. My parents hurled the gauntlet saying “I couldn’t do it” so I did it. Right or wrong, I took their challenge and made them acknowledge it.

My nephew has a degree in Philosophy. Totally insignificant squishy. Major squishy.

That and $2.00 will get him a venti Pike Place at Starbucks.

In the meantime, there is a ghastly national need for automobile mechanics, HVAC technicians, plumbers, electricians, skilled drywallers, architects, energy specialists, woodworkers, welders, technical divers, pipefitters, nurses.

You want individuality? Learn a trade and be your OWN boss. If you’re not a flake you’ll have more work than you could possibly handle.

Those of you who have called for technicians KNOW what I mean.

Only one highly-skilled and college-educated trade now exists: DOCTORS.

Philosophy majors?

Line up over there and push the icon for CHEESEBURGER.