Powerful reframe. The underemployment stat is way more damning than the unemployment number, because it reveals the trajectory problem not just the employment problem. I've seen this firsthand with friends who got degrees in communications or business admin and ended up doing work high schoolers coudl handle. The four years of skill-building time is the real cost nobody talks about, not tuition. Building portfolios of real work in your early twenties sounds obvious but goes against everything colleges sell.
Our children have no hope if they do not find a better way to live their lives. The current system does not even teach them how to learn. Let alone how to find purpose and develop agency, nor a decent way of life. Having cobbled together my own path, I applaud your book, and encourage you to consider further developing the system.
A question: I was really frustrated last fall to learn - too late to join - of your Plan B event. We would be the first to sign up if you offer it this Spring. Please let us know the timing.
The book details the exactly what someone should do instead of college to get on the right track for freedom, opportunity, and independence. We didn’t hold anything back so I’m not sure what we could do to further develop the program already laid out.
Because of scheduling a Plan B conference seems unlikely for 2026, unfortunately.
Powerful reframe. The underemployment stat is way more damning than the unemployment number, because it reveals the trajectory problem not just the employment problem. I've seen this firsthand with friends who got degrees in communications or business admin and ended up doing work high schoolers coudl handle. The four years of skill-building time is the real cost nobody talks about, not tuition. Building portfolios of real work in your early twenties sounds obvious but goes against everything colleges sell.
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The college trap isn’t education, it’s mispriced optionality.
Credentials promised mobility, then quietly became debt with a dress code.
What’s breaking isn’t learning, it’s the assumption that signaling equals skill.
Capital is already voting elsewhere: portfolios of proof, not parchment.
The gap between what we were sold and what compounds is where the real lesson sits.
Our children have no hope if they do not find a better way to live their lives. The current system does not even teach them how to learn. Let alone how to find purpose and develop agency, nor a decent way of life. Having cobbled together my own path, I applaud your book, and encourage you to consider further developing the system.
A question: I was really frustrated last fall to learn - too late to join - of your Plan B event. We would be the first to sign up if you offer it this Spring. Please let us know the timing.
Keep up the good work
Randy Taylor
The book details the exactly what someone should do instead of college to get on the right track for freedom, opportunity, and independence. We didn’t hold anything back so I’m not sure what we could do to further develop the program already laid out.
Because of scheduling a Plan B conference seems unlikely for 2026, unfortunately.
I agree with you premise...up to a point. Definitely become a plumber or an electrician. Much cheaper than a college degree, too!
I have 7 daughters and 4 sons. The daughter who is unmarried is an ICU nurse and the sons are:
1) An electrical engineer,
2) A cybersecurity specialist
3) Works for Frito Lay (no degree) and
4) Training to be a pilot - Has half his hours in and should have his license by the end of the year.
(There is a shortage of pilots) He is 24.