Yes, I have an aus friend who dropped out of high school and is on his way to becoming an electrician now.

My good friend aaron spent 4 years as an electrical apprentice, he made $155,000 after tax this year.

Pretty good advice, not everyone's meant to go to college. Now we just need to bring back apprenticeships.

This post was edited by SwaziSpring on May 19 2013 07:10am

I was like wtf! until i read the small print

Chart By;Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad


ok ok get it now.........

Trades pay really well and are a far better choice than wasting your $ on useless University(s) , once you get into the debt trap, your a slave to it.

This post was edited by card_sultan on May 19 2013 09:00am

Hard to do with the attack on unions. The attack on unions is a direct attack on those blue collar professions as viable ways of making a life.

Truth. Blue collar jobs should be middle class, but they get paid less to do more work as time goes on.

White collar mediocrity has replaced blue jobs, largely due to worker rights and breakthroughs made by organized labour.

You made your own grave with unions and now blue collar folk have to sleep there or find office jobs like everyone else transitioning into our stagnant service economy.

This post was edited by killgoreisleet on May 19 2013 01:11pm

Why? I would hope academic credentials drive admissions regardless of general population demographics. If Asians and Jews applicants have better backgrounds on average, they should be overrepresented. Likewise, if African American or Caucasian applicants have worse backgrounds on average, I want them to be underrepresented.

Plus, it also depends on the demographics of applicants, which may not itself even reflect the general population.



It's unconstitutional, as was decided in I think a case involving Michigan's law school giving people "points" in a ranking system for choosing applicants based on their ethnicity. Maybe it happens, but I don't see evidence of this where you state it outright...

I know it occurs, it is rare to have it all lined up beautifully so you can compare it. A nice place to start though is with medical school, a very rigorous field, I would want only the best to qualify for it to be honest. Here's some numbers,




There is definitely ethnic favoritism, it is probably by law though, I can't imagine someone willingly lowering their standards without a cult of diversity. Asians must have a lot of pressure on them to perform well, they can't rely on favoritism.