I have two degrees but no friends. All the blue collar people I know are much more locally connected than the more educated ones. Maybe my part of the world is just that extra bit dysfunctional.
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same here
Also same, this is just bullshit college promotion.
Same here. Moving around for better engineering jobs doesn't help. Niche technology engineer job is much much worse.
Adulthood blows. It is possible, even common, to go to high school in one area of the country, attend college in another area, then get a job in yet another area. I have friends from every "era" of my life but most don't stay in touch. Worse yet, many of the coworkers I had at old jobs are people I would have considered personal friends but they call less and less after I changed jobs and we have less in common over time.
It is very easy to invest 110% in your immediate family and before you know it your other relationships suffer or disappear entirely.
Every friend I still keep in contact with is someone I met in college, so this makes a lot of sense to me.
Yeah no fucking shit. We don't get to work from home. We don't get to leave early on Fridays. We don't get teambuilding events or offsites or happy hours. We work. We do labor. We come home every day and take our boots off and are more tired than you've ever been in your life.
And you people are always surprised when you remember our existence.
Curious how much that still applies, being a decade old now.
Curious of how much of that was funded by the student loan industry
What kind of stupid generalized crap is this?
I think it's what they've been calling "statistics".
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