“This is the truth. We know GaTech engineering grads who were hired (at least they were hired)...for $38K per year.”
And an 18 year old fresh out of school can make about 50% more than that in the oilfields of West TX.
I tell my 30-year old son who graduated from a Liberal Arts college in Oregon to pack up and go to work in ND all the time. He can’t seem to figure out why a head full of socialist slogans won’t land him anything better than Walmart.