u/Realistic_Hamster776

I went to a liberal arts college and took all the “well-rounded person” classes they push—humanities, social sciences, the works. I actually enjoyed learning new ways to think, but not being told what to think. There was a ton of ideology shoved at us about how evil the country/system is, all from the people who benefited the most from the system. They came from well-off backgrounds and had no clue what real struggle looks like.

I’m a white male from a poor family, so I guess according to some narratives, I was handed everything on a silver platter? Reality: my dad lost his job when Clinton was elected. My dad’s company closed due to Clinton defense budget cuts and moving jobs overseas.

I was in middle school, my parents divorced, he killed himself. We became a single-parent household on food stamps + his Social Security. I have bipolar disorder but never got any benefits , accommodations or whatever for my “disability” status.

I pushed through school got a master’s degree, but came out with $75k in debt and couldn’t find a job paying more than $32k starting. The “prescribed road” (college → degree → good job) led to failure after failure for me. When I ditched that script, started my own small business, and became the master of my own fate, my life improved 10x.

I believe in equality for everyone—I’ve lived through struggle and started over many times from nothing. being surrounded by privileged classmates, professors and learning how oppressed everyone is (while I was barley scraping by) felt worthless false and disingenuous.

Most of what I learned in college didn’t help me in life at all. The only real hope for people like me seems to be the opportunities this country thankfully still offers—if you hustle outside the system

You can make it. Don’t buy the prescribed narrative their goal is to get you stuck on the government teet. Do the work they prescribe, think they way they want to, be good little cog.

Am I wrong? Is the liberal arts path actually valuable is it overhyped for most? Curious to hear other perspective.

I went to a liberal arts college and took all the “well-rounded person” classes they push—humanities, social sciences, the works. I actually enjoyed learning new ways to think, but not being told what to think. There was a ton of ideology shoved at us about how evil the country/system is, all from the people who benefited the most from the system. They came from well-off backgrounds and had no clue what real struggle looks like.

I’m a white male from a poor family, so I guess according to some narratives, I was handed everything on a silver platter? Reality: my dad lost his job when Clinton was elected. My dad’s company closed due to Clinton defense budget cuts and moving jobs overseas.

I was in middle school, my parents divorced, he killed himself. We became a single-parent household on food stamps + his Social Security. I have bipolar disorder but never got any benefits , accommodations or whatever for my “disability” status.

I pushed through school got a master’s degree, but came out with $75k in debt and couldn’t find a job paying more than $32k starting. The “prescribed road” (college → degree → good job) led to failure after failure for me. When I ditched that script, started my own small business, and became the master of my own fate, my life improved 10x.

I believe in equality for everyone—I’ve lived through struggle and started over many times from nothing. being surrounded by privileged classmates, professors and learning how oppressed everyone is (while I was barley scraping by) felt worthless false and disingenuous.

Most of what I learned in college didn’t help me in life at all. The only real hope for people like me seems to be the opportunities this country thankfully still offers—if you hustle outside the system

You can make it. Don’t buy the prescribed narrative their goal is to get you stuck on the government teet. Do the work they prescribe, think they way they want to, be good little cog.

Am I wrong? Is the liberal arts path actually valuable is it overhyped for most? Curious to hear other perspective.