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Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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Pretty much the same story for me.
Our generation has a problem where you're told pretty much through the entirety of secondary school that "you need to do well here or you won't get in to uni", the underlying message being that you're a failure if you don't go to uni.
The result being that every man and his dog now has a degree the value of which is watered down hugely and 30,000 historians, artists, philosophers, , , each year, are left wondering why they can't land a job role in their chosen line of study.
Good for me, as no one wanting to learn a trade has definitely helped with my value in the job market, bad for people that were missold a dream by a generation of boomers who "worked hard and achieved whatever they wanted".