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Originally Posted by Glice
The sort of people who wait tables, who man gas stations - they can have educations too. Education shouldn't be directed solely at the next generation of CEOs. Everyone I know doing waiting and 'gas' station type jobs has a degree. One of them likes his job in the 'gas' station because it gives him time to work on music. One lass I know is working on a book and waiting because it requires minimal effort on her part (and she's quite attractive, so does well out of tax-free tips). I think it's preposterous to say that doing a 'menial' job somehow prohibits you from studying, or from being able to benefit from study. For myself, I can't say education is likely to furnish me with a lucrative career, but the benefit it's brought to me personally is the difference between a life of drudgery and a life of drudgery with an appreciation for books and art. University does serve the market, certainly, and the pro-Doctors (etc) argument is a part of it, but that shouldn't be the totality of education.
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A minial job doesn't prevent one from studying if this is what they wish to do, but spending money on shit that really isn't necessary does cause those with menial jobs to struggle a little bit more.