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Originally Posted by Azure
I should also mention that there are a lot of unfilled jobs outside of STEM & the trades, so those two aren't the only options.
Post-secondary has become a bloated, inefficient system designed to extract money from students while at the same time telling them it is necessary to go down the path of high debt load and no career potential. Even worse, the government enables it by allowing student loans to be secured for useless degrees.
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The government is also funding most of our post-secondary education, without any direction. If you look at most countries that heavily fund post-secondary education, they also strictly control how many students are allowed into each field of study.
The vast majority of Canada's university students are pursuing humanities degrees. Many of these people, in turn, end up in office admin jobs. The problem is that they have no office admin training, so they have to waste another portion of their careers getting experience that they should have gotten in post-secondary.
I hope that the way access to information has changed might help this situation. In the past, if, for example, you were interested in history, you had to take courses to really get a deep dive. Now you can just look this kind of information up on the internet. It allows people to get a career orientated degree, while pursuing academic interests on the side.