On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:40:24 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 8:40:09 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:10:11 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >If you don't view a college education as vocational training, it can be a
>> >worthwhile goal.
>> >
>> >Once upon a time, the goal of college was to turn callow youths into
>> >men with a broad grounding in the liberal arts, fitting them for a
>> >future in business, politics, law, medicine, etc.
>> >
>> ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education>
>> >
>> >It has only been the last 40-60 years where college has been seen as training
>> >for a specific career.
>>
>> Yes, I remember that in the 80s people suddenly started studying weird
>> stuff like business economics at uni. Did they want a job or
>> something?
>
>Most of my slacker friends went into the agriculture field. That was completely unexpected. Evidently, they all wanted to be farmers.

So who's the slacker now, huh?