An Open Message to My Generation

I am a 20-year-old college student. Life has been good to me. This is my message to my generation: COLLEGE DOES NOT EQUAL SUCCESS. YOU ARE NOT TRAPPED. DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

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[panpan4088]

It truly depends on what you are doing... kinda hard to get an engineering job without a degree...

[kathryndelong]

@panpan4088 Of course. My point was just that college isn't the only option.

[stealthswimmer]

College typically does equal higher income (over the course of one's life it's like 300k more) and right now people with college education are facing an unemployment rate of 5% which is almost half the national average. That being said, the debt is a big issue, especially since not all degrees offer the same future pay potential.

[kathryndelong]

@stealthswimmer There is more to life than money. :)

[SlaytanicBrad]

Either it's college or it's just natural...but you're one smart woman. Keep making great vids.

Ron Paul 2012-2020!!!

[RussiangirlNY]

you are a smart and pretty girl. 

[TrippingTheTube]

I have skillz, like bowhunting skillz and numchuck skillz...

[TrippingTheTube]

You're absolutely right! They keep spewing that same garbage about college. 

[eventhisidistaken]

@happydelicious ...apparently, my purpose for continued existence is to respond to trolls.

[TheIlluminatiAwards]

Kathryn, your generation really is the future...AND THAT FUTURE ROYALLY FUCKED.Why dont you speak up about chemtrails that you and everyone breathe.That's just not popular huh?A coward dies a hundred deaths,prove me wrong.WHY NOT HONOR THE THOUSANDS WHO WERE MURDERED ON 9-11?by stating the truth.Do a video on that.Oh wait,dr paul doesn't believe the reality either.Have to be popular now.You are the michelle phan of the truth movement.So sad yet so true.Flag me fan boys.Truth lives not here.

[happydelicious]

@eventhisidistaken what a fucking retard! Why are you still alive?

[eventhisidistaken]

Kathryn, your generation really is the future. Not just metaphorically or biologically, but you seem to be the generation that has finally awoken from the deep slumber. I think the internet gets a lot of credit for this, but nevertheless, I've never been so hopeful for the future in my life! You can do it. Restore liberty to the US, and turn back the predictable decline of wealth and the thrashing in violence that dying empires always experience!

[bobshenix]

@kathryndelong

College should only be for the well-motivated who truly want to dedicate themselves to academics. But because of all the Federal loans and mandates, there are so many kids who literally just go to college to party and pull chicks/hook up and get wasted.

In my experience the ones who deserve the high paying jobs, have the skills for them, and for whom college is "the right choice" are the engineering, math, microbiology, etc. majors. They are usually more serious.

[paganwheels]

Thank you for speaking for your generation. I am a 49 year old teacher who has worked for 24 years in a lower income community. I have always thought it was so disingenuous for the public school system to push these kids into college when they would be better served with training in electrical, plumbing, construction, auto mechanics, etc. where they are going to end up after a failed attempt at academics anyway. All part of the elite trying to enslave the poor by another method.

[Cornampoo]

@kathryndelong indeed, it was very informative.