Dumbest Wheel of Fortune Contestent EVER: Lost 1 Mil and a Car to Stupidity

My barista at Starbucks has a Master and is currently making a little more than $12 an hour. He has racked up more than 150k in student loan debt. He told me after he was done with his undergraduate, the job market was bleaked(thanks Obama) so he has no choice but to keep going back to school. He told me if he had to do it all again he would have chosen a different path. My co-worker's son graduated from high school about 3 years ago and went straight to a trade school, he's banking more than 50k a year now and owed about 30k in student loan debt which he can easily repay in no time. His high school buddies who went to college are not doing well, some dropped out and some struggled to keep up.

These are real world examples but hey you can keep pimping these Master and PhD graduates with their 70k+ incomes.

To each his own!

 

70k is the bare minimum if you have PhD.

While my wife was in graduate school (4 years), every single graduate from my wife's graduate program was offered jobs with starting salary of 100k+. (yes, even during bad economy etc. etc.)

Every single one of them has 0 graduate school debt. Only from undergraduate level which they will get rid of without any problem with their current salaries.

Most of them do not even have to worry about undergraduate debt because they did not attend schools here. More than 60% are from outside this country.

I have had similar experience with my program and at my school.

After a couple of years of work experience, most of these folks go on to management positions and will make even higher. You want to compare the ceilings of these people vs ceilings of people with trade school degrees???

Others who have gone to tech grad programs will tell you the same. We have to import students because we dont have enough of our own who are qualified.

People from outside this country understand the value of higher level education, which is why they do everything they can to come here. We dont. Sadly, you and your experience are an example of this.

You want to be complacent and live with your 50k jobs, go ahead. Just dont whine about it in the future when you are left behind.

Bottom line is this: Higher education does not limit you from anything. On the other hand, not having an higher education can limit you from a number of opportunities.

 

almost ALL my friends are interning/working in financial services somewhere. anybody can make money if they work hard but getting an education and doing well at uni, companies come AFTER you

 

fixed for honesty

 

I'm kind of waiting for that contestant who mispronounces loose as lose.

If I had a dime for every time someone spelled lose as loose on this forum, then I could buy a cabin in Aspen and retire.

"Rockets loose".

"Loose change"

Never understood why people misspell the word "lose" given all the losing going on by sports teams in Houston over the years. lol

 

Once, the puzzle was "Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack". I am not sure if all of the letters were there, but the 's' was. The contestant "solved" it by saying, "Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks". The contestant failed.

 

As I said in the other thread, this is totally arbitrary on the part of the game show. Americans pronounce ancient Greek names correctly, eh? Um, no. The kid's pronunciation is no worse that the way we butcher it every day, so they aren't doing a service to educating anyone.

Would be really cool if they pronounced it correctly and gave the buzzer to all those kids.

 

Anyone else think this story was headed somewhere else?

 

Hahahahaha. Some guy pushing trade school as more useful than a post-secondary education. That's rich. Your barista at Starbucks probably went to school with no idea of what they would do post-graduation. I have friends in serious debt who will have it paid off in <3 years and will spend the rest of their lives making more than 5x what you can make with a trade school degree.

It's hard not to be derisive, but I guess there are people who can't cut it in school and would be best off elsewhere. That's fine.

 

^^^This

 

So you're telling me Steve Harvey wouldn't do well on wheel of fortune?

 

Thanks for repping me and calling me an ******* anonymously!

Yeah, it was a dick statement but I had to be extreme in response to such an extreme claim. Sadly my law degree will only land me a job at Starbucks.

 

I do not like the racial undertones of this post or this thread in general.

 

Are you being serious? Race never entered my mind when I posted that and if I remember correctly, it was a white person who screwed it up.

 

Can you tell us why you hate white people so much?

 

I've been around them all my life and I am sick of them.

 

Says a lot about the American school system... These are college students... and this was not an obscure reference...

 

This thread has enough of a D&D flavor to it, but I disagree with your assessment based on the Achilles answer. I'm not saying he isn't a dope, and from the rest of the clips he sure appears to be one (or having the most brain dead day of his life). It would be perfectly normal for many bright engineers to be unaware of Greek mythology or common sayings.

 

Might get this moved to D&D.

Most Americans don't bother with PHDs in engineering because it doesn't make financial sense. You're giving up 4+ years (masters + PHD) of working and getting real money, and in a lot of companies having four years of skills\experience that's actually related to their industry is more attractive than a sheet of PHD certificate. It was not a hard choice for most of my friends to make to not go to graduate school. Also for a lot of engineers, to move up in a company getting a top 10 MBA is probably going to help a lot more than a PHD program. Engineers are generally smart, and if they're doing it for the money these are all calculated into their equation.

Also, the people who excel and can actually get through an Engineering PHD have a lot of other options. Why be an engineer when you can go into management consulting, finance, medical science and plethora of other fields that provide chance at $150K+ right out of school.

Lastly, I'm Asian American so I am going to take some offense to the importing Indian and Chinese comment used with a negative slant. Having smart and talented people willing to come into your country and work makes the country better. I think the problem U.S. will actually start seeing is those workers choosing to go back to their home country after receiving an education here (as economic opportunities in those countries improve), because that actually create a shortage in talented force here and make companies actually NEED to outsource the work because we don't have the talent in this country to do so.

 

Agreed with the bold. If anything, it pushes the people in the native country to try and outperform the people coming in.

Instead of b****ing and moaning, why not do something about it?