Mike Rowe was asked if everyone should get a college degree, and his answer was very refreshing

Should all high school graduates try to get a college degree?

Former “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe recently discussed this very issue with Tucker Carlson, and he said some really interesting things.  IJR has the transcript:

We start to believe that the best path for the most people happens to be the most expensive path. And it also happens to be the path that has led to a skills gap of about 5.8 million positions and student loans of about 1.3 trillion and sooner or later somebody’s got to throw the flag, so to speak, and say, maybe there’s another way.

I think it’s this idea that there’s a ”dream job” out there. We’re told from the very beginning that if you want to be happy then you have to be doing the thing that will make you happy.

And so we embark on this quest for happiness that has everything to do with attaining that which we’ve previously determined will cause bliss, right?

It’s sort of like looking for your soul mate as opposed to trying to find happiness in your zip code. We just make it so hard.

I think it is always unhealthy to suggest that heads is more interesting than tails. Blue collar is more interesting than white collar. All these things—people talk about the skills gap like it is a great mystery.

And personally I think it is a question of rewarding the behavior that we have been rewarding. So, we want something better for our kids than what we have, but we don’t really know what ‘better’ means.