The issue is employers want what is not out there anymore. They have created too many “boxes” people have to fit in, there endless diversity quotes for everything expect whatever you are. It’s not an excess not to try it should be used as fuel for the fire to try harder at doing your own thing.

Colleges are spending a mountain of money in not educating people but making them feel “special.” Come to our campuses today everyone gets a free double-shot of espresso as they explore our beautiful 30 acres of gardens from the yacht. Don’t mind most of the money is going to administrative fees, and things outside of the classroom to the point we can’t afford to give professors enough markers to write on the whiteboard.

The divide between what an employer what’s to do anymore and what an education can provide is a massive cavern. Education can’t provide real on hands experience no matter how many “simulations” and “practices” they do. Employers don’t want foot the bill for training someone on the job for the need 6 months; sure, they will give you three weeks but only really two and hope it’s all golden.

Spending two to eight years in college depending on what you’re going for makes you obsolete in whatever field you trained in, and they're a huge chance the career might not even be around by the time you’re done.

I got a two-year degree in accounting from a community college (only way I could not go into massive debt). I trained in QuickBooks Pro 2009, Excel 2010, and tax year of 2010. What good was all this in 2013 when I graduated? Worthless. On top of that, there are so many different accounting software options and companies only want to hire people who have directly trained in the year’s version of the software they are running. Heck some of them even wrote their own and only hire people with experience in it(explains them posting a job posting for 2 full years weekly before they “switch” accounting systems and started asking for a different one).

This leaves you with short-term certifications. Where you’re not wasting time writing poetry for a career path in accounting, or learning who painted what painting for a career in networking. All this “we produce well-rounded students” is a load of crap.

The best future options for a large number of jobs out there will be online short training where if you can get an employer to pay for it the better. Sadly right now that’s a minefield because everyone sees the easy money and has online degrees and certs for everything that most employers would never even look at.

Most of my friends that went to college expect one racked up a load of debt and never even got into the career path they wanted (two of them got the “career” they wanted but half the pay). The rest had to settle for working in retail just to keep up with payments. Even then they did not have the proper understanding of money, budgeting, and self-control. Granted some of them where not even college material but everyone told them always they HAD TO GO TO COLLEGE. Along the way, they fell short a few times on payments on student loans and other debts. Accrued massive fees on top of what they already can’t pay. Had one or two children as well as they tried to live life. While endlessly reminding me they would be willing to drop everything they are doing to come work for me if the opportunity ever came.

Education works best on someone else’s money where you are training for a job that’s needed in the future. With someone you have already worked with before, and they want you to fill that need they have. Otherwise, without having the connections you are just the masses racking up debt hoping you will be picked form the herd. This often leads people to living in expensive big cities where that $100k a year paycheck they wanted is never enough to meet cost of living + student debt.

For myself, I am going to toss a few grand on some online training for the year 2018 and hope I can take advantage of some very local opportunities. Between that and startup costs I been starting to liquidate many of my digital assets ahead of time since some things take a very long time to unload. Sometimes you can take advantage of government money but most time that helpline is far too slow and ancient in what qualifies. The opportunity cost is worth the risk to me and it’s not going to ruin me for years if it fails.

Automation

Simply put every single job. Maybe one day you will be able to just pay for a Denmarkguychatbot to write and comment for you. Everyone thinks being “creative” will be the next big thing and “entertainment” will be our savior. The Roman Empire sends their regards. Advances in animation and AI will make sure there is nothing safe.

Heck there are already fully automatic factories out there with 0 humans needed. Expect the rare chance of something breaking that it can’t selfheal or self-repair. Even that will be de-human soon enough.

That leads us into having to think about nationalized living standard income for every citizen. I can only imagine how many countries will go on a bit of a “cleaning spree” to reduce the numbers.

Once you’re living on a nationalized standard wage you agree to everything and don’t ever say no out of them just cutting you off and leaving you to die in the streets with zero other options. Some countries are already so tied in to the banking system if your rejected you can’t even open your front door, take a ride on public transportation, or buy food without having that plastic bank card giving you access to digital money. Yes, they might still have paper money but that is slowing being phased out and is seen as a “criminal or tourist thing.”

Me personally, I expect to be dead. I’m not the brightest person out their-- far from it. I have no place in such a future. I more than understand that, and enjoy what I can now while we still have such freedoms to do so. Which includes the biggest freedom of them all. Saying “no” and it not being a death penalty offense.